Casper

As I said I would yesterday here is Casper's story. A lady was giving away kittens during a heat wave several years ago in a wal-mart parking lot. My hubby, before we were married, was working nearby in the same shopping center and so I was going to see him at work. I couldn't resist stopping to see the kits and this one got in my lap. It was so hot and he seemed to just want to get out of the heat. So I took him with me. I was living with my father still, this was several years ago after all, he would not allow inside cats. So once Casper was big enough outside he went with the rest of the cats there. We lived in a quiet neighborhood with not too much traffic so we didn't think it was that big of a deal, until he got hit.

I felt so bad. We were going out to dinner and he came up to the porch and let out the most pitiful meow. I saw his little leg was broken. What I didn't realize at the time though was that he also had brain damage. I called the vet, after hours, who asked about his condition over the phone and said that he would have to have surgery based on where the break was and to bring him in first thing Monday.

He had to have pins put in his leg but came home the next day. It took us a while to assess the range of his disability. It's not like a cat can explain things to you. He has been slowly healing over the years. His eyes would not dilate and contract properly for several years. They began to do so again this summer, showing that even these years after the accident his brain is rewiring and healing.

He had a hard time after the move. He wasn't used to my hubby being around all the time, plus the new house. I had to kind of rush the move too because when I moved out he wouldn't eat for my dad and started to loose weight, so I just had to go and bring him here. he won't be happy when I start to work Wednesday either though he tends to adjust to those kinds of changes the quickest.

All in all he is healthy and happy as he can be. We try to keep things as normal as possible for him, so that he feels the most comfortable he can without curtailing our social lives. When company comes over we just let him be. He usually just sleeps on my bed quiet contentedly the whole time anyway and he's started to get used to the friends that come over the most and will come out and see them sometimes, which I take as a good sign as well.