UNO HAD SURGERY!

WOW, UNO HAD HIS HIP SURGERY!  I know it's not polite to shout, but we've been whispering for days so that he didn't know that it was coming!  He's been on the surgery schedule so many times but kept having little problems that wouldn't make him a good surgical candidate.  So we kept it a secret from him, even at the vet's office when we scheduled it, we called him "the cat who must not be named" lest he get wind of it and make his eyes watery again.  He tried claiming that he had a sore on his neck, but that wasn't enough to get him out of it.  So today he is back home and resting comfortably.  He's on pain meds and between the pain meds and having that broken piece of bone out of there, he probably feels better than he used to.  The surgery confirmed that it had been broken for a long time and that he'll end up with a bit of arthritis in the joint.  Knowing Uno, that won't slow him down any!  This morning he was climbing the cat tree already!    What a crazy boy.  He wasn't sure how to get comfortable and I didn't know if he'd want to be picked up, but then his bad hip was facing away from me, so I just pulled him on my lap and just felt him totally relax.  Poor guy, but in a couple of weeks he could finally be ready for a new home! 

My daughter had said that Uno looked like a new cat because all of his shaved spots were growing back in and his eyes weren't full of yellow goobies anymore.  I told her not to worry, he'd have brand-new shaved spots!  Poor guy has his entire leg and hip shaved - good thing it's not winter anymore or he'd be a little chilly.