Yeah, I was thinking about asking the vet for more. His stitches are out next Saturday and I think it would be good to be covered until then...although I'm not the expert. 

The one last night came on very quickly and I think it lasted until the Metacam kicked in...the one today. I dunno. He climbed into my lap and was purring while I pet him, and then the purring turned into shivering and a bit of twitching and mowling and a nip here and there...which part didn't last too long. Maybe a couple minutes. Then he curled back up and trembled/shivered off and on for a while, but let me keep petting him and by the time I was off with the vet he had started purring again and seemed relaxed - tried swatting at the end of the thread I was tying to sew up a new onesie. This all happened about an hour after his third 8-hourly gabapentin dose. He has another hour until his next Metacam, now. So I don't think it stopped in response to medicine..................but I don't know 🙁

I'm a bit more relaxed now and less catastrophizing, but it still sucks. That's comforting to know that permanent nerve damage isn't common. The vet said maybe phantom limb pain but that that is not usual in cats either. I do know that I'm hyper vigilant and a very anxious kitty parent, so it's probably not as bad in reality as I perceive it to be. I need to remind myself of that as well. I cannot wait until we're all healed up.  

Lol, that's ok. My username is completely random and he's a black kitty so that's understandable. He is definitely a beauty  Thanks for the support. 

I don't want to jinx it, but I think the meds are kicking back in. We had an event free night. Phew. He wont eat food with gabapentin in it any more so I've started syringing it with a bit of milk. 

I can't believe it. We are up to day 11 post amputation! Harry is still healing away, and I need to remind myself that it's all still new because he is eager to get figuring out his new mobility. He's still pretty slow moving. Is that normal? He seems pretty confident, regardless. Just no running or skipping around. I hope he's not sad :/  He tried getting up on a window ledge yesterday and had a tumble, which was pretty upsetting (his incision side smacked right into the ledge and he sort of bounced down. At least he landed on the bed!) but he seemed fine. No visible impact on the incision or change in behaviour. He's also still sleeping a lot...but he IS a cat. And still medicated. Starting to back up the gabapentin more slowly as of today. Vet also recommended reducing the metacam from the 6kg dose to the 5 and seeing how that goes. 

Yesterday and today I let him havea cautious poke around the rest of the apartment for exercise, for five-ten minutes or so. He's been wanting out of the bedroom pretty badly :/ : 

Clever boy. But also, I worry that this kind of stretching might hurt the muscles of the surgery site...same with when he tries to use his missing leg and gets that shoulder working away (I've had to remind him/show him again how to use his remaining front leg to bury his business). Is that silly? 

I put my box spring back under my mattress and a first set of steps in place today. I figure it's not super high, if he does jump straight down, but maybe a good idea to encourage some baby steps? He got up and down on the couch with no problem...What do you think?

Starting to look seriously at weight loss as part of his recovery, to lesson the burden of those thumps on the way down though...

Ooh, and I don't know whether I've said, but I think I cracked the stretchy onesie neck hole dilemma. I've started cutting right up to the neck hole, from the armpit of the sleeve, on an angle. Instead of just snipping off the sleeve and sewing it shut. It's much less stretchy and Harry hasn't gotten a leg out of these ones yet (fingers crossed it stays that way).