Sure about the pictures! Here's another to add - explanation below. Ziggy's super cool goggles

The vet never really said infection about the first time, but with pus involved it must have been a mild one e. The guess is that a lot of his issue was with the box - he's very fussy but he was having a hard time at first, and he was so tired that he basically just sat down to pee and of course got pee all over himself. We cleaned him up as best we could but it might not have been enough (we are using Yesterday's News but he haaaaaaaaates it!)

It could have also been that he yanked his cone off and got some licks in before we caught him.

We've had another little speed-up. After he came home, I had noticed a slightly discolored spot on the belly side of his incision right about where the seroma had been. I assumed it was just some staining from the flushing out and she had warned me that we might see some continued leaking of fluid or a little blood so I wasn't too concerned. 

He had another good pee this morning and I was cleaning him up with a baby wipe while he was having a supervised grooming session. But when I gently wiped his belly, the discolored spot just came off and exposed I'm estimating about a half-inch hold of icky infected-looking junk. Of course I panicked, called the vet 20 minutes later when they opened, and rushed him back. Thankfully the spot didn't seem to be causing him any pain, he was more peeved that he was in the carrier again.

She isn't sure if it was just a fold of tissue from the original surgery that went necrotic a bit, or if it was from him licking when he escaped the cone or the flushing. Sometimes a piece of skin just gets thin and brittle and there was another spot she was worried was starting to do the same, so she decided to keep him at least until Friday, possibly Saturday to see what happens with the other spot. Either way she plans to give the one spot a couple of sutures on Friday. For the moment they're going to double cone him AND try a donut collar since he's a pro at escaping them - he keeps hooking the gauze with his "thumb claws" and ripping the cone off through sheer determination. They're also using medicated honey to keep the wound clean until it's closed up.

And for the picture above, they're also using a laser to help get rid of the infected tissue in the wound, hence his super stylish Eyewear! Everyone at the office loves him because he's super chill, easygoing, and starts purring whenever anyone comes to feed him or check on his cone. He even had his first post-amputation poop today!

So it's not the awesome news we had hoped for, but also not a situation the vet hasn't seen before and not something that is threatening his overall health in a way they can't deal with. In the meanwhile, we are getting some very much needed sleep and loving on his absolutely adorable brother Herbie!

They really are awesome vets! We just happened to move to an apartment complex right up the street from them, and the first time another cat had issues, they were the closest ones so we went there to minimize his distress about the carrier and we definitely struck gold. She definitely didn't want to send him home again when it looks like there might be another potential issue on the horizon, and he eats well when he's there so she's comfortable keeping him. If pets get so stressed there that they won't eat, she usually pushes to send them home instead but Ziggy's very chill about it.

I think an almost 12-hour sleep was clearly needed by the humans, and Herbie is taking a post-play nap now. The vet said she plans to send us daily pictures with our updates, so I'll keep posting them here as long as they're not disgusting!