Days 102-104: Stress to the Max

This weekend has been crazy!  So, as noted in the previous post, a kitten jumped from a tree into my arms.  We named it Alex, and then weren't able to get the kitten to the vet until Saturday.  So Saturday morning, LOML and I do our third Walk to End Alzheimer's together in the morning.  Before kitten's vet appointment, our sweet Chiweenie, Odie, injures his paw while out running.  So we have a vet appointment for the kitten at 2:30 and for Odie at 5:30.  The kitten's appointment goes well.  We find out Alex is a boy (as I'd surmised), about 10 weeks old (a little older than I thought), covered in fleas, and with round worms (none of which are a surprised).  He's mildly underweight, but all energy and just as sweet as he can be.  Boy does he love staying right by my feet.  I've tripped over him a couple times now.  At any rate, we've got him on kitten food that he loves, the worms are gone and so are the fleas (and we are happy for all of that!).  His orange is getting darker each day, and his stripes are starting to come in.  Here are some pictures:

So after we finish at the vet with Alex, we practically turn around with Odie to have him evaluated since he is now limping on his right front foot.  After an assessment, the vet needs to give him hydromorphone to get him to relax enough to where they can examine him.  He went from this about 10 minutes later:

To this about 20 minutes later:

He was so out of it until Sunday morning.  Fortunately, no fractures in the foot.  He's on an anti-inflammatory which seems to be helping.  Minimal limping.  Only having to work through the associated constipation that comes with the use of narcotics.  It's so strange getting to see that medications I prescribe at work used on my animals.

Finally, we have the other cats, Julia and Boris, who are trying to stick together to phase the monster (AKA Alex) on the other side of the door.  Alex is off limits to them for the next couple weeks in case he is feline leukemia positive.  Hopefully he isn't and we can start introductions after his next round of vaccinations.  At any rate, the gray babies are trying to avoid the meowing baby.  I don't know how excited either will be when finally introduced.  Here are the other babies:

We have a house full of animals, but I wouldn't have it any other way.  It is hectic and stressful at times, but LOML and I are a team, and frankly, they're all really easy animals to take care of.