Lomloy needed emergency surgery

On Wednesday the news about Lomloy was good. The wound on her back had closed, and the hospital said she could leave as soon as she had somewhere to go.

On Friday the vet phoned Mee. Lomloy had an abscess in her chest, and she needed a tube put in to drain it, that day.

Mee paid the deposit that afternoon and they went ahead. The photos and clips here came from the hospital the same day. In the first photo she is awake before the procedure. In the others it is over: she is asleep with a dressing around her chest and a drip in her front leg, and by the evening she is tucked under a blanket, breathing slowly.

14 November. The hospital wrote to Mee this morning. Lomloy is quite a lot better than yesterday, and today she is not short of breath. A good deal of pus has come out through the tube, and someone is drawing it off every two hours, day and night. She won’t eat on her own yet, so one of the staff feeds her by hand.

The vet told Mee the tube has to stay in for three to five days, with the draining kept up for the first three. So she will be in the hospital for some days yet. I will add to this page when Mee hears more.

What it costs

The vet’s first estimate for this was 20,000 baht. After talking it over with a colleague at Mahidol University, the vet brought it down to about 16,000. Mee paid 10,000 of that on Friday as a deposit. The care she needs afterwards will be charged on top, so 16,000 is not the final figure. All of this comes on top of the 25,506 baht that Lomloy’s six weeks there had already cost, nearly all of which Mee has paid herself.

She told me plainly that she can’t carry much more of it alone. If you have been thinking about helping, this is the week it matters most. How to help explains the ways to send a gift, and all of it goes to Mee for Lomloy’s care.

Lomloy still needs a home once she is well. Lomloy needs a home has how to reach Mee if you could give her one.