Hello! I was terrified to have this surgery done on my kitty (12.5 yrs old) and tried to look up healing progress photos before hand and couldn't find too many that were broken down day by day, so I thought I'd upload mine in case it might help someone. Surgery day was miserable for both of us, it was so freaking sad seeing him all beat up after, and he was so so so scared. He was very distrusting of us for the first couple days and mostly hid under the bed but he returned to his normal self behavior wise after 2 days or so. Thankfully the vet used absorbable sutures so we don't have to go back to the vet. We are emailing them progress photos instead. Also if anyone is curious we gave him 1 anti-inflammatory pill the first day post-op as well as oral pain meds mixed in small amounts of wet food for the first 3-5 days ish. ALSO: our cat has extremely bad vet anxiety and pants really hard when he gets stressed out, which the vet has told me can lead to a respitory episode. So immediately following surgery they actually recommended we don't use the cone unless we notice him messing with his eye. He has occasionally gently wiped it once or twice after a meal but he hasn't really been messing with it. Those first few days I was watching him like a hawk though. I had nightmares he ripped the stitches open and woke up multiple times in the night to go find him and make sure his eye was ok. So far so good though 🙏🙏 I'm relieved we didn't have to do the cone (so far at least lol) because I just feel so bad for him, like he must already be so uncomfy.uncomfortable.
P.S. the black gunk around his eye is dried blood from the first day when it was still oozing. I've been too scared to clean it lol🥲 I might try to clean it this coming week, but I wanna wait until it's healed a bit more so I don't accidently open anything up.
