This is Seamus Fitzpatrick, Fitz to friends and family. Fitz is a miracle. By no means should he still be alive. He should not have survived everything he has. Fitz still needs help. Please consider donating to his $12,000 vet bill. We really, really need the help.
Fitz came to me when he was around 3-4 months old, by way of the local humane society and my job, as a partially paralyzed kitten. He’d somehow been surviving on the streets until then. We immediately started laser and physical therapy and something amazing happened- he started to walk. At first unsteady, knuckling on his toes, but with some taping and more physical and laser therapy, he began walking better! The way he’s supposed to! As if he had never walked any other way!
But we noticed something during that time, he wasn’t urinating like he should be. It seemed like he was peeing and pooping out of his anus. With some imaging and exploratory surgery we were able to figure out why- his urethra was connected to his colon. This was something that had to be fixed. It was the perfect breeding ground for infection, sepsis, and eventually would cause his death. He would suffer. So we began researching. Most of what we found was based in human medicine, but a plan was formed. Surgery that really hadn’t been performed before.
He was under for a long time, but when he woke up we had rerouted his urethra and repaired his colon.
But then there were complications after, four surgeries to correct those. That caused a massive staph infection. His skin sloughed off and he lost fur. Another surgery.
He was on heavy antibiotics for a long time.
But through all of this Fitz has remained sweet, loving, and gentle. Always wanting attention. He’s playful and silly and a wonderful little kitten. Now he’s truly on the mend. His skin is granulating and healing. He may never have full movement in his front left leg but that doesn’t stop him. Nothing does.
But that devastating vet bill remains. We need help. Anything helps. Even sharing this helps.
Fitz is healing so well! What’s funny is when he came to me it was his back legs that didn’t work. But now those are perfect! It’s his front leg that’s giving him trouble now. For reasons we don’t quite understand he got a really nasty infection under his left front leg. We knew an infection would happen. We were doing surgeries with feces in the open cavity! But it was so weird that it produced in his armpit and nowhere near his surgery sites! But all that’s the past! He’s trying to use that leg to play and even touching it to the ground! He’s getting to be a kitten and play! 
