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[hyacinth003]

We took in a stray female kitty a few months ago. The vet said she was about a year old.

We had her spayed last week. I have had several female kitties over my lifetime, and the spay always went very easily. Not so much with this girl.

Making a long story short, she has had an allergic reaction to the dissolvable sutures. Her vet said in all his years, he had never seen anything like this. Her incision became red, swollen, and began to open. She has an opening in her abdomen about the width of a little finger. She developed a low-grade fever and a small amount of discharge. She is receiving antibiotics, and we are now irrigating the wound twice a day. We have had to put her in an Elizabethan collar. She is eating well, and doesn't seem to be in pain anymore.

We have to bring her back in 2 days to be checked again. I guess no procedure is truly "routine."

Hyacinth