De Baking Psychopath

Post-op Kimchi, lounging on couch Kimchi says thank you for all your concern! She is doing quite well, hopping and jumping around, as well as pigging out and drinking her fill after not eating much at the hospital due to being a little afraid of her surroundings. Her surgical site is healing beautifully and there's no sign of any inflammation or infection. She's already very active, even hopping up on her favorite couch cushions and onto the bed to snuggle with Mommy and Daddy at bedtime. She's learning to stretch and scratch her favorite wooden things again as well. She's so glad to be home, and of course Mom and Dad are paying her lots and lots of attention. A girl could get used to being spoiled like that, heh. If anything, she's actually being much more affectionate than previous, and whether it's the anti-pain medications (ie happy drugs) or whether she's more carefree without the pain of the lame leg, we'll have to find out in the upcoming weeks....

Sorry for being MIA lately. March and April have been kicking my butt in more ways than one. I've been preparing for a conference, which I just returned from, and then next week I'm off back to the motherland for a couple weeks for some personal family reasons that preoccupied me for much of March. Throughout this craziness, we learned that our 6-year old baby kitty, Kimchi, had bone cancer in her left hind leg and needed to have that leg amputated. She'd been limping on and off for a while, but it never affected her lifestyle, but when we took her to a new vet he was immediately concerned enough to take an x-ray...and then a biopsy...and then when we learned it was cancer, he recommended we deal with this as soon as possible. So we did. Her surgery was on Tuesday, and we're bringing her home today. Online references and anecdotal sources say that animals do very well with three legs, they don't suffer the psychological stress and pain that humans do over l...