Thank you to everyone who has been checking in on the kitty cat. Max seems to be on the mend! Mom, Dad, the vets, and I weren't sure if he was going to make it or not. The vet said that she had never seen anything like it in the 20 years she's been a vet. She was worried it was one of those super staph infections that are resistant to every drug out there. They treated him with the most aggressive antibiotic treatment that they have ever had to use.
Mom and I brought him in the vet every single day for weeks where they flushed out the wound, tried to drain as much fluid as possible, and gave him multiple injections of antibiotics and fluids. Then when he came home, Mom (with Dad when he was home) force fed him every hour to two, gave him more antibiotic shots, cleaned out the wounds, and sometimes gave him more fluids. Somehow all of the hard work paid off because his fever broke a couple of days ago, the infected fluid in his tummy is going away, and the incision and four drainage holes are healing! According to the vet, he is not "out of the woods yet" because he still won't eat enough on his own to live. He is no longer sequestered in one room though and is moving freely about the house. Hopefully he'll start eating soon and everything will go back to normal!
The indent down the center of his tummy is where the incision was from his surgery. The red spots are where the fluid had to drain from. This looks way better than it was. The big one used to be larger than quarter size and went down to his muscle. The smaller ones were nickle and two dime size. They all seem to be healing nicely.
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