life, not my life, theirs...

so i was thinking today about the last night that i worked at the emergency clinic. what i am going to type about happened like 3 weeks or so ago and i don't know why i'm thinking about it now, but i am, so i'll share...

This lady calls and says that this cat that she found as a pregnant stray had 4 kittens earlier that morning and now she has something hanging out of her. I told her that she should bring the cat in b/c it could be a prolapsed uterus. so this woman brings in the cat and her 4 kittens and the cat does in fact have a prolapsed uterus...the whole left uterine horn is hanging out of her body :(

she was pretty stable so about an hour later the doctor went in to remove the uterus, etc, basically to do an OVH...in other words a spay. as we were prepping her for surgery, clipping her and expressing her bladder, etc, a technician felt something in her abdomen. it felt like another kitten! so the dvm went in and sure enough there was a very limp kitten still in its fluid sac. the dvm didn't want to contaminate the abdomen, so she tied off the kitten in its sac and continued on with the OVH. she then cut the kitten free. Kim the technician opened the sac and at first we thought the kitten was dead. we were watching the dvm close up the mom cat and the kitten gasped for air in kim's hands! it was amazing! the kitten ended up surviving and went home with the owner.

oh yeah and another thing, this cat and her 5 kittens really found a great home. the woman who brought them in was all like "money is no object"...and she was happy that she found the cat and that it had kittens. it was wonderful. i guess there still are good people in this world...