Okay, the surgery went well and Gatsby is back home! They said he was a very good boy for it, haha. Truly the most perfect baby in the world. Anyway his face right now looks rather gruesome, poor thing, but it's mostly the cone that's tripping him up right now. Going to be tricky for him to get used to it! But he's gotta deal with it for two weeks. Last I checked on him he was just resting on one of the couches downstairs, so hopefully he's feeling okay. The swelling and bruising should go down over the next couple of days.

His meds I think I can hide in his food fairly well, he's usually pretty good about that. I hope he doesn't give me trouble! One of the meds is liquid which I haven't really administered before... I've tried to hide liquid ones in treats before but he was not into it, haha. I might just have to get in there and do it, but maybe it won't be so bad. Just gotta do what you gotta do! After two weeks I'll take him back and they'll take out the sutures and he'll be free from the cone. Hopefully he'll heal up fine.

They sent off his eye to pathology, but they won't get back to me about that for another two weeks or so, so we still don't know what exactly was wrong with his eye. I really hope it was just a benign thing... otherwise he really seems fine, but I dunno. Am I just prolonging the inevitable? I guess we all are to a degree. Can you put a price on every new day you spend with your pets? I've made my decision, I don't regret it. Mostly I just hope I'll have more time with him. Hopefully I will! No reason to worry about it now, there's nothing I can do about it until the reports get back.

In the meantime, I don't have to do his eyedrops anymore, haha. He was very good about them but it was tedious and neither of us liked it too much. Hopefully he'll be good for me about these new meds too...



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