tripperfunster

*bangs head against wall*

Milky's original story is here: http://tripperfunster.livejournal.com/157349.html

Sadly, his leg is NOT HEALING AT ALL. We've gone for bandage changes every two days for the past month, but it's getting worse, not better. The frostbite pretty much ate away his tendons and muscle, so the vet can't close the wound, because it's just a big hole.

It was getting better, and better, and then ... not better. I suppose that it was healing on the outside, but not the inside, and then, perhaps with one of his seizures, or whatever, it opened right up again.

The vet says it's amputation or nothing. I don't have a problem with a three-legged cat, but I DO have a problem with the $1000 that it's going to cost. (this is on top of the $1100 or so that we've already spent on him.)

I went for a second opinion to a vet that I really like, and she tried something a bit risky, with putting him under, sewing the wound shut and then putting a big 'stay' suture there, through the tendons, so he couldn't rip it out. She then gave me some 'chill pills' for him, so I could change the bandages and bathe the wound.

Wow. Note to self: CHILL PILLS DID NOT WORK. They made him confused and agitated. I guess, because he's deaf and has limited eyesight already, he was even MORE confused, and kept falling down and in a panic to escape, started slamming into the walls of his cage.

When hubby and I finally retrained him enough to take off the bandages (in a towel) the wound didn't look good. Some of his stitches were torn and he was obviously in a lot of pain.

He then proceeded to try and rip off his new bandages, so I had to drag his angry self out of the kennel, have hubby pin him down and re-bandage, then manhandle a cone of shame onto the poor boy. HE LET HIS DISPLEASURE BE KNOWN TO ALL.

And this morning, he's still woozy from the happy pills, so I have to keep him confined because he's stumbling around like an angry drunk, and he's going to injure himself even more!

TL;DR Angry!Injured!cat is angry and injured. (Although he's a sweetie pie when you're not poking his boo boo.)

I HAVE NO MONEY TO SAVE THIS CAT, THEREFORE I AM SELLING OFF SOME ART
I have never done this before, so I don't know the best way to do it. Should I do a mini auction? Or just stick prices on stuff?

Art that I have available:
Vulcan hand porn:

This one is really nice in RL. about 14x14. Pencil crayon on craft paper.

Double Ridged:

11x14 pencil

contrast:

11x14 pencil

Pointillition Snarry:

11x11 Ink

I have lots of others. Check out my Devart page. http://tripperfunster.deviantart.com/gallery/

I also have a sketch book FULL of Trek art.

Comment if there's something that interests you!