The journey continues

So, we left off with Kitty coming home on Saturday August 7, 2010. She was so happy to be home and I was so relieved to have her with me. Now at least I didn't have to worry about her being in a cage at the hospital wondering why I was being so mean. She had a bandage wrapped around her belly that the Dr. said had to stay on for 24 hours since she had new sutures put in that morning. I was given two liquid medications to give her orally, twice a day and one pill to give her every three days if needed to stimulate her appetite. I knew medicine time wouldn't be fun, but I wasn't prepared to go to war, just to give an 11 pound cat two syringes of medication. I'll tell you what, for a sick cat who just had surgery, Kitty proved to be pretty darn strong! The first night, I think I wore more of it than we got down her, but I did my best! I took the bandage off Kitty on Sunday and before I could even move she had proceeded to almost rip out one of her sutures. Off I went to the store to find surgical wrap to try and re-wrap the cat! The first go round did not go so well. I tried to cover her sutures with gauze before wrapping her and ended up with gauze sticking out everywhere and her wrap looked like a drunk person did it. Round two went a little better because we used an ace bandage but that tended to stretch out and my smart little girl was able to roll it down and uncover her sutures, which she again tried to rip out. By now we are at Tuesday and I get a call from home that Kitty is being unbearable because she can now get to her sutures and will not leave them alone. So, I take an early lunch, go buy gauze and my niece meets me at the house and we try again. This time we don't get it tight enough but we are getting better. My sister and I have another go Tuesday night and we get her wrapped pretty good! So far so good, we haven't lost any sutures!
On Saturday when I got Kitty home we discovered another problem. Her sister (my 20 year cat) decided she no longer knew who Kitty was since she smelled like the hospital and proceeded to hiss at her if Kitty even entered the same room as her. Well........considering we all sleep in the same bed, this could be a problem, which it was. I thought maybe Jazzmine would get over it and realize it was Kitty. No such luck! Kitty has now been home for 5 days and Jazzmine is still hissing at her. Needless to say, I have had to banish poor Jazzmine from her room and set her up in another room so Kitty can get her rest and heal. Jazzmine, who has been with me for 20 years, now hates me and thinks I am the worse mom ever! Hopefully she will forgive me when I am able to let her back in. (will post more in a bit)