On Monday I brought Pancake 🥞🐈 home from the vet’s office and she was still kind of drugged up after being sedated for X-rays to try and find out why she still wasn’t walking or jumping (sort of? she’s always had issues with it, and now we know why) like before her fracture.
Turns out she has “capital physeal fracture” which can be caused (mostly in cats, and mostly male cats) by spaying or neutering too soon (in 12 or less weeks). What this means, is that on top of having a lot less muscle on her hips and legs than the rest of her body, there is also an issue with the bone. Where the bone usually meets the pelvis area, there is the head of the bone, the “neck”, and then the full length of the bone. (Forgive me I am doing my best to recall what the vet said, and how she explained things) and basically, a capital physeal fracture means that there is a growth plate fracture, so the “neck” of the bone connecting the rounded head and the length of the femur was interrupted and didn’t fully develop, which caused it to be super thin and very fragile.
When pancake had her fracture several months ago, it’s likely that’s when she also injured the already fragile femur “neck”, and that is why she is still in pain despite the initial fracture healing. I’m also including 2 X-rays of cats, the first shows healthy normal cat, the second shows a cat with this problem. I don’t have her X-rays (not sure if I get them later or they just don’t give them unless you ask/pay) but she has this in both her femurs, which the vet says makes it far more likely that this is related to being spayed too early (she was spayed a week before I got her, and I got her at 10weeks old) as opposed to a random injury.
NORMAL CAT FEMURS (below)
CAPITAL PHYSEAL FRACTURE (below)
Now the good part about this, is that they can improve her pain and mobility by doing a surgery that is not too complicated, and while she will still never be a pro jumper, she will be a lot happier and more likely to be active, and because it’s not super complicated it will be a lot less money than one that was super difficult. The downside? I got the quote the next day and it was $1,648.94
We’re already stretched very thin because of constant recurring plumbing issues, not to mention the over $5k we’ve spent on my dog in the last 10 months, who is now almost entirely blind, mostly deaf, has diabetes, and congestive heart failure. I know everyone has their own stuff going on, but if you’re able to and want to help, even a small amount would mean the world to me. And if you can’t and just want to say nice things about pancake that would be appreciated too. I want to be able to get her better and feeling pain free, and the sooner I can do it, the better. I love my big orange princess cat and it breaks my heart to know that she wasn’t just avoiding activity because she thought she was still hurt from her old fracture, but that she’s been in pain this whole time. Contact me via ask or msg to find out how to donate if you would like to and are able.
I’ll be posting any and all updates on here so people know how things are going, and once she’s had her surgery, how she is healing. We are told that her healing should be fairly smooth, especially because she is otherwise healthy and only 2 years old, and that while we won’t want her jumping on things for a while, we are to keep her somewhat active and playing so she gets better sooner.
So far we have been blessed with $387.13 in donations towards her surgery, as well as countless kind messages of support and well wishes for my round orange kitty, and I am so appreciative and grateful to know so many amazing people.
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UPDATE: total donated has gone up to $580.75! Still a long way to go, but it means so much. ❤
‘if you’re a trans guy why are you wearing a bra’
listen my dude, unsure if you know but the day I came out as trans my breasts didn’t immediately retract into my body. they continue to exist. and wearing a binder – no matter how well it fits – for hours on end day in day out becomes unbelievably uncomfortable. wearing a bra as a trans guy doesn’t make you a Bad Trans™. can we stop putting expectations on trans people to perform to the Good Trans Person Standards and being terrible to them when they don’t. other words, can people mind their own fuckin business when it comes to other people’s bodies and what they do with them lmfao
this goes for giving trans women shit for not shaving too. there are a hundred and one reasons why someone may choose not to shave or not be able to. people empower cis women for not shaving (which is perfectly fine and great) and in the same breathe shame a trans woman for not choosing to shave. don’t force a higher standard of presentation onto trans people, especially when those presentations are rooted in stale expectations of gender.
fellow nonbinary person over here. you wanna know what i changed about my appearance the day i came out?
fucking nothing.
wanna know what i will someday want changed about my appearance in order to conform with my identity?
fucking nothing.
i’m perfect as i am. if y’all got bees in your bonets over my tits, that’s a you problem not a me problem.
another nb perspective here: i took T for ten years to lower my voice and grow facial hair, so that my gender expression could fluctuate with my gender as well as my social needs.
And, eventually, so that i could present in a way that is authentic for me personally, which right now, does involve a beard (and usually, a lot of glitter, sometimes on skirts) and does not involve binding (or any kind of surgery).
The idea that you’re only valid – that you only deserve to live your life and express who you are without others trying to control you – if you both WANT to conform to the other binary gender, and CAN conform to it, is double-edged bulllllllshiiiiit.
It’s not just a way of trying to force us to check even more heteronormative cis boxes than cis people do. It’s a way of pressuring nonbinary trans people from both sides.
On one side, cis people create these ludicrous requirements for being accepted as a valid human being, and grade all trans people twice as hard on them.
On the other side, too many trans people uphold those requirements, and then create our own additional set of ridiculous and harsh requirements, but for being accepted as a valid trans person. The Good Trans Person Standards, like @officialoperaghost said.
Everything from “your gender has to at least be about how male and/or female you are, and ideally you also support and argue for the existence of the gender binary” to “you have to specifically have physical dysphoria that’s bad enough to make you suicidal”.
also what do people who have a problem with trans guys wearing bras even do when someone uses a sports bra to bind. do they just become incoherent with rage or….
(The pressure-from-both-sides thing seems to be something that all oppressed communities do to ourselves, but for liminal people – people who break some kind of binary – i think it’s especially bad. I call it The Nutcracker.)
Responding to worries about societal issues with “life is tough, get over it” or similar is the laziest way to avoid addressing difficult problems. Humans strive for and are capable of improvement. We are smart, resourceful, and creative. It makes no sense to shrug your shoulders in the face of a known issue and act like society has reached a magical point of immutability. If society sucks, we should start putting our heads together to fix it, not give up.
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