Cats who teach me to fly…

Ace was hit by a taxi last Oct. It was a hit and run case. I did not witness it. On that night, before I began packing the food and start my feeding rounds, the children at Whampoa rushed to me and told me about it.

I tried going round and round looking for him and I believed he couldn’t have gone far, still I was not able to find him for two days. There was a big drain which I suspected that he was hiding.

Ace came to me on the third night after he was knocked down by the taxi. Because of the slightly distorted face, Mel could not recognize him. Immediately when I saw Ace The first thing that came to my mind was to grab him into the carrier before he was gone again.

He was hungry. I served him food but he was unable to eat. So I put him in the carrier and got his ex-owner to keep him for a night. It was already very late that night, I didn’t want to spend that kind of money on after hour charges. We all know it didn’t come cheap.

I sent Ace to the vet the next day and we engaged a specialist to do a surgery.

Ace looked not so bad in the clinic. I think Dr Patrick stitched his opened wound on his… I forgot what that call. It was something above the tongue. We were told that Ace’s right eye was blind and his Jaw was crooked as well. The vet was unable to fixed his Jaw in fear that Ace may not be able to open his mouth again.

Ace was discharged. However, there was discharge from Ace’s nose. For less than a month after discharged, I notice Ace was breathing heavily. It was the kind of breathing that resembles a passing away cat. We sent Ace immediately to the clinic and was told to transfer him to VES immediately.

They found Ace’s lungs were accumulated with mucus which obstructed his breathing. The lungs were badly infected as well. The clinic did a CT scan, removed the mucus, inserted a tube for feeding.

Ace’s conditions started to improve day by day.

He is home now and putting weight. He was at VES early January. His blood test results says that his condition is stable.

His overall bill was around 14k and we managed to raise around 5k which we are really grateful. Thank you to those who contributed to Ace’s medical bill.

We hope that Ace could continue to stay healthy.