Again?!?!

Does anyone remember two summers ago when Kitty Maxx chased Kitty Finn onto our plant shelf, forcing her to fall and tear her ACL? One very expensive surgery and then a couple of weeks of horrible recovery later, the kitty was better. YEA!

A couple weeks ago, we noticed Finn limping a little. It seemed to come and go. We were super busy, so it took us a few days to get her into the vet. The vet (not our usual vet, some 12 year old who I don't really trust....am I getting old and biased against young professionals? That's another post. I digress.) said it was probably her knee cap coming loose and her having to walk weird to put it back in place (or something like that.) She said, many times, these things can fix themselves. She gave us some pain meds and told us to call when it was gone if Finn wasn't doing any better.

It didn't get any better. So, we called and Alicia took her in yesterday morning. They had to do x-rays and remove this mass from her paw, which they discovered at the first visit. I picked her up in the evening (with a very fussy Parker - fun times) at which time I was told that Kitty Finn has torn her other ACL. WTF? When she tore the first one, we were told that it was extremely rare for cats to do this. We assumed it was the giant twisting fall that she took. Since then, she has barely been able to jump on the couch, let alone get up to the plant shelf. I have no idea how it happened.

Okay, so I start thinking, aside from the giant expense, we can do this next week during our spring break, the recovery will be easier to deal with when we are not in school. It involves multiple drugs being given at all times of the day and night. It's actually worse than having a newborn, so it's a good thing we will be on break.

Wait. The doctor who does these surgeries is out of town next week. Fantastic, so now the surgery will have to be the week we get back from spring break - right when we won't be home at all. I have no idea how we are going to manage all this. My sister will be here that week and then Alicia's mom might be coming the week after, which would be very good. We will need the extra help.

Oh - and did I mention that Finn ripped out all the stitches from her paw overnight? She's back at the vet this morning.

Sigh.