Maggie underwent surgery for diaphragmatic hernia on 13th August.
http://animalcare.my/2010/08/maggie-cat.html
The surgery, despite being very risky, was successful. During post-op, Maggie’s recovery took some time, but today, after a month, she is doing well.
Here are the latest updates from Mas, her caregiver:
Maggie is recovering quite well, eating heartily on her own and breathing quite normally.
It is such an amazing miracle just to see her alive, considering her extensive internal injuries i.e. punctured diaphragm, torn ribs, injured lungs, liver, spleen, and other internal organs.
Because the chances of survival for traumatic diaphragmatic hernia is 50:50, it had been an extremely stressful and worrisome experience indeed. Even the vet surgeon himself had admitted that he had been most fearful for her, because he had seen many animals die after the operation.
But thank God, in the hands of a good and kind, experienced vet surgeon and with generous donations and prayers from kind hearted souls from AnimalCare, dear Maggie, after suffering tremendous physical pain, has managed to pull through despite such terrible odds!
The kind vet had advised keeping her fully confined in a cage for at least 2 months to limit her movements and to ensure that the internal sutures put in to close up the hole in the torn diaphragm and to hold the internal organs that had been pushed back from the lung cavity back into their original positions behind the diaphragm, do not get ruptured by impacts.
A big, big thank you to everyone from AnimalCare from the bottom of my heart, and may God bless you all!