Last Wednesday we awoke at 1am to the most horrific screaming and hissing I've ever heard. At first I thought that my cat and kitten were fighting, but when I sat up I realized something else was wrong. My older cat Gypsie was puffed up at the end of the bed and Misu had her front claws dug into the box spring and was hissing and screaming. I quickly flipped on the light and ordered my partner to put our newborn in the swing out in the living room and put Gypsie out in the hallway. Upon further inspection it was evident that Misu had gotten inside the box spring and had gotten her back leg trapped in a spring. I tried wrapping her in a blanket and lifting her up so she could pull free but I was unsuccessful and she began thrashing more. I was in a panic and didn't know what to do so I called 911 to see if they could send a firefighter with bolt cutters or something to free her. While we were waiting I flipped the mattress off the bed and cut the top of the box spring open to get a better visual on her leg. Her foot was trapped under a spring and she had fallen over the top of it. It was evident her foot was badly broken, but there was no easy way I could free her without risking severe injury to myself from her extreme distress. Luckily I remembered a jeweler's saw in my tool box and ran to get it. I began sawing through the springs and by the time I was almost through the second one, she managed to pull free and she bolted to the corner dragging her leg with a long forgotten empty Ben & Jerry's ice cream container in her mouth... She must've bitten down on it to control her pain. She had been trapped for over 20 minutes. I put the pet carrier in front of her and she willingly went inside hissing a couple times in pain. Before heading to the emergency pet hospital, we took the box spring and threw it out into the yard so our other cat wouldn't get injured by it.
I brought her into the first pet hospital and they were running way behind. I was able to get them to administer a pain med and sedative to make her more comfortable before I drove across town to the other location... Luckily I had funds on my care credit to do this for her.
At the other location they wouldn't even touch her without prepayment and we wouldn't have funds til late morning from my partner's student loans so they sent me home to wait for our usual clinic to open which was around the time her meds were starting to wear off. Luckily our regular clinic took her in and medicated her and did the exam but wouldn't do x-rays until our funds were available. Once funds were available they did the initial x-rays and it looked like all four metacarpals were broken but they were clean breaks and being she was so young the surgeon said that splinting would be the best approach.... But they weren't able to clearly get all views and asked to sedate her for further x-rays and we agreed. After those came back it turned out a chunk of her ankle was broken out and the joint was badly damaged and the tendons and ligaments were torn up as well. The surgeon was not confident that it could be repaired. We were then faced with the decision to amputate or proceed with an iffy surgical procedure with an 8-10 week recovery time that could still result in amputation. We went ahead with the amputation.

We are now a week out from the amputation and she has been doing well. The first couple days we had to hold her upright in the litter box because she would be so fatigued just from moving around and climbing in. She's now going in on her own. We have to feed her and give her water by hand but her appetite is good. She's still super affectionate and the last couple days she started laying on her incision side and just a few minutes ago she rolled over as far as she could for a belly scratch.