As promised to my friends - an update on Lily 3 months after.

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Over the past weeks I've received many PMs and enquiries as to how Lily has been coping since we got her home 4 weeks ago. I didn't want to write too much about her because I was worried people would be bored with her, but just for those who are interested............. Lily's recovery is very slow (probably much slower then anticipated), - but it is going in the right direction finally:-)) After being discharged from Hospital a month ago, she was only home a week before she had to go back into Hospital for a week again. Silly little beast was damaging her skin graft and her new leg by literally bashing it with the edge of her "buster" collar, and set up an infection...... The Vets said she was disorientated and confused to be back home, and had become "institunionalised" at the Hospital, which was causing her some problems. So she needed to be re-sedated and immobilised for a week to get things back to how they were before she came home. We got her home again 2 weeks ago, and, since then, have had no less than 5 emergency trips back to the Vets, when she has bruised her leg, cut her skin graft, and contracted yet another infection that is proving very resistant to antibiotics. To be honest I had no idea how difficult the whole thing would be. But throughout it all, she still remains the feisty little madam she always was. She was terrified of her brothers at first, but now she's back to bossing them about, and although she now has to wear a padded collar with gauze over the front, she still tries to play, and takes every opportunity to try and "escape" through the cat flap at every opportunity. Her purr is still as loud as it ever was, and she still sleeps between us every night. Here is a pic of her with one of her collars - not the one with her face covered because you can't see her pretty face in that one! Thanks to everyone who still cares enough to ask about her. I'm told she will get 100% in time - just will take a little longer than even the Vets thought - mainly because she is NOT a good patient and destroys all their good work!!!