home!

[woolymonkey]

Leicester is home!  The op went well although he has a screw loose.  No, really, there was no way the vet could attach all the screws through the plate into suitable bits of bone so she had to leave one out.  She thinks it will heal ok anyway but it makes the 'crate rest' more important than ever.  Later he will be allowed out to sit on laps, but not yet...

He can already stand and squat, which he couldn't do at all before, but he's still in a lot of pain.  Probably not more than ever but more than he'd got used to at the start of this week.  We have strong painkillers for him, but not the ultrastrong hallucination-giving ones.

He's eating quite well.   Thank you to la_marquise_de_  for introducing him to gourmet perle gushy fudz.

Big thank yous also to tamaranthand ozymandias_cat for the loan of their top-loading carrier.

Edited to add a pic. 
He's busy catching up on sleep.

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[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Humbug is taking it better than last time--confused but really hostile or fearful. I think the sock trick really helped. I rubbed the Leicester/Humbug smell sock on Humbug this morning and he LOVED it. Now, he's happy to get close to sock-rubbed Leicester. He'll eat near his cage and sit in the kitchen a few feet away quite relaxed, but then suddenly he'll seem to get a whiff of something different that makes him hiss and leave the room, basically how he reacted the first time. I think the sock trick must be a big part of what is making it easier this time, though I expect Humbug has also learned from the previous episode when vet-smell Leicester turned back into friendly Leicester.
BTW there's now a pic of shaved Leicester in the main post.