{"id":4271,"date":"2018-06-10T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T21:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2018-06-10T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T21:47:08","slug":"4271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/10\/4271\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Cone of Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4274 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MVIMG_20180609_020339-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MVIMG_20180609_020339-copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MVIMG_20180609_020339-copy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, Gabby had his stitches out and his collar off for all of twelve hours before we were back in the emergency room. He was cleared for activity, but then re-opened the wound.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson: I should have said something. I <em>knew<\/em> we were taking the stitches out and returning him to activity too soon; they doctor gave us a window of 10-14 days, but the technician scheduled us for a 10-day return. That day, I was a bit iffy about the stitches, but they went ahead and removed them. I clarified: is he ready for activity? Can he go out? They said yes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they were wrong, and I should have said something at the day of the original appointment scheduling, at least putting it off until Monday. Failing that, I should have said something before the stitches came out. Failing that, I should have used my own discretion and left the collar on for a few more days.<\/p>\n<p>Failing that, I failed my cat.<\/p>\n<p>The late-night emergency doc didn&#8217;t think the cut had reopened the underlying wound and that it didn&#8217;t warrant stitches &#8230; but it looks worse today. I kept him inside overnight and today; let&#8217;s see how he&#8217;s doing and whether I should exercise my discretion and take him back in.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Cancer cat, abscess cat, aka Lenora and Gabby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Gabby had his stitches out and his collar off for all of twelve hours before we were back in the emergency room. He was cleared for activity, but then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,194],"tags":[23,5,246],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","category-the-cats","tag-the-cats","tag-we-call-it-living","tag-wisdom","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4276,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}