Glad to hear that surgery went well. Jingling for a quick and full recovery.
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Home and resting somewhat comfortably, as comfortable as one can be with urogenital reconstruction and a de-stoned bladder. He’s got several days of pain meds, and experience with Fawkes that the first 2-3 days are the toughest and messiest as the new muscle and sphincter control is figured out. Poor guy, but he had a regular geologist’s hoard of stones, crystals, and sand built up. It’s all easy exit now, per the vet surgeon.
Now for some serious budgeting…
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I’m glad that Figaro is home safe and sound. Best wishes for quick healing and comfort.
I went down this road with my Ralph around 10 years ago. He was rushed to the surgery by the vet, which was way across the city. As soon as they put Ralph under the stone came flying out when his urethra relaxed. It would have been very expensive if this hadn’t happened.
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Hope he’s well on the road to recovery, poor guy.
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aww poor buddy. and poor wallet too! At least the worst is over now right?
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I guess at least get insurance on the third little boy-kitty. We definitely had not come close to saving or preparing for $11k in kitty emergency healthcare within one month… I’m glad we were kind of in a position to make it work but it’s definitely going to change plans for the next year or so. I’m kind of grateful for our largish interest-free loan to the federal government in 2023, that helped.
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wowsers, that certainly is a chunk of change! I am the genius who had my cat on pet insurance, then I thought I’d save the $13 a month and cancelled the policy. 4 months later he gets diagnosed with Stomatisis and needs a 3k+ extraction. 
The things we do for our critters right?
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Just the basic unblocking process was $1500+, and neither stayed unblocked. Then I figured after Fawkes, I’d have some time to look into insurance. HAH!
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Freed Kitty Update!
After a brief setback involving incision healing, Figaro is free of confinement and the cone!
Last week, the day after he got his stitches out and the okay to start limited free time with the cone, he managed to jump on the toilet in his “safe” room, somehow miss, and smack himself in his newly-restructured backside. A small part of the lower incision started bleeding. It was pretty profuse to start but did slow considerably. But it wouldn’t stop. We ended up at the emergency vet at 9pm (after a 30 minute drive). The good news was he was very low on the triage list. The bad news was he was very low on the triage list 
so at 11:30pm they had dabbed the spot with surgical glue and said keep him confined with the cone for a few more days.
He went Thursday still slightly oozing, so he went for a follow up with the surgical vet Friday morning but it had finally scabbed completely over. A few more days of confinement and come, then supervised free time with cone, and has finally been completely freed!
With his brother-from-another-mother, Twig and a Fawkes peek.
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