Guardian: Food for you~
This kitty, who needs to be fed only by the medical tube, is called 'Foy'
Guardian: She has a hole that covers almost two-thirds of the roof of her mouth. She can neither eat, nor drink
So she's saying, there's a huge hole punched on the roof of Foy's mouth
How has she got such a big wound in there..?
Guardian: I was working as usual, but I could hear a kitten crying, and shrieking from the distance.
The cry wasn't even 'mewing' but literally shrieking Then I saw two crows nipping something in their beaks and dropped it on the ground
So I thought it was a mice or something
As she felt something's wrong, she rushed outside to check the situation
Guardian: Lord.. This is mad.. / Daughter: Gushing out from her eyes..
Guardian: God.. they pecked her mouth.. What should we do?
What she found from there, there was a baby kitten, who was dying by the attacks of the crows.. Motionless..
Guardian: So we brought her to the hospital straight away. They've arranged surgery as an emergency, thankfully
Yet, as she's growing up, holding on somehow, the part stitched up got burst out
Right after their rescue, she was transferred to the hospital and was able to save her life by the surgery carried out
However, the wound that was stitched up was burst out open, which eventually disabled Foy to eat anything without the lady's help
Guardian: Four times a day? She eats through the cylinder, three to four times a day... But she keeps having mucus
I guess she feels uncomfortable with that, so she doesn't want to have it this way.
Guardian: Look, it comes back out like this.. should be heartful for her, even though she wants to have it herself
The food that's been put through the mouth is coming back out through the hole on the roof of her mouth and out the nostrils..
Guardian: In the case of Foy, she can't be fed by herself, so without any treatment, she won't be able to survive alone
Even when she feels thirst, she desperately wants to drink water, but she won't be able to drink it at the exact time she wants..
All I wish for her is to be able to drink and eat by herself, that is all
Is an act of simply drinking water, and eating food, a basic daily routine, an impossible thing to come true for Foy..?
With the last hope, we came to visit the hospital
Vet: Woah, it's quite huge.. Guardian: Yeah, right..
The vet says, the hole's bigger than he expected
So he looks into the photos of Foy rescued back then, to check out the condition of her initial wound
Vet: Well, first of all, she seems she's been attacked a lot on the face.. by looking at the structure of her mouth inside
it appears that she's born with a deformity, yet there's extra damage exert on it, on top that
Guardian: Oh, is it?
Vet: Yes, as I see in the picture, the center part looks clean, but she has a malformation, called cleft palate..
That means, Foy 's born with 'cleft palate', simply put, she's born with a hole between the oral and nasal cavity..
Vet: If she intakes food through the mouth, the food will come out through the nose, and often sucked into the lungs,
this can cause infectious pneumonia, leading to death. To put it simply, she's not in the condition to have a normal diet
In most cases, those with such conditions would be gone to heaven by now, but it can be called a miracle that.
Foy's still alive
If we let this go on any farther, this will lead to pneumonia or the possibility of a asecond infection, hence urgently needs surgery
However..!
Vet specializing in diagnostic medical imaging: As you can see here, there's some parts that show almost
the same lightness inside the right nasal cavity and the soft tissue, which means that she does have rhinitis at the moment
Most of the bones that are to comprise the roof of the upper jaw were lost. To put it into numbers, almost 75% of them
Since the third quarter of the bones were lost, they've come to the conclusion that it'd be difficult to rebuild it.
Vet: Looks it'd be difficult to just stitch it up,is it?/ Yeah, it appears so,
Vet specializing in diagnostic medical imaging: there are no soft tissues around it, which we can use for a stitch-up
Vet: Well, alright, Can only know once we move to the surgical room, and cut the wound open
Hence, Foy's surgery has been decided.
As the surgery's going to be tough, no one can easily cut the start
At the moment when their concerns deepening..!
Vet: Oh? Can't we pull from here?
Vet: There aren't many soft tissues left on the roof, so we had to choose a way to cut the soft palate into 'ㄷ' shape,
and bend it over 90 degrees, so we could plug the hole in the roof of her mouth
By pulling the tissue on the soft palate, they'd decided to overlap it with the medical prosthesis upon it..
There's a possibility that if the hole's covered only with the tissue, that could burst out again
Hence they decided to adopt the safety measure, so the tissue can settle as strongly as it can..!
Vet: First, the hole's been enlarged more than the others, we've brought quite a large part of the tissue to cover it up,
but this could bring about tissue tension along with it. So, it's highly possible that the stitch might burst open, compared to other simple stitches
Hence, we'll monitor her carefully while she's with us in the hospital
The only thing left is to wait for the tissues to bond by themselves..
Hope Foy can overcome this hurdle once more, as she always has been..
The time passed by..
And we paid another visit to the hospital, a few days later
She looks good on the outside hehe
Vet: The dark part there, it's her own tissue
Meaning, the tissues are well bonded with each other, rebuilding it with new flesh..!
Then perhaps, she can now eat the solid food by herself..
Half in doubt, we've handed out the food that's been sliced into pieces~
Vet: Oh She's having it...!
Foy having her meal without anybody's help!!
Vet: Thank god.. Since she's never eaten through her mouth, we've been worried
if she's forgotten how to intake, but my worries were pointless
And there came the one who's been waiting for this moment more than Foy
Guardian: Foy!!! Foy!!
As the lady carefully hands out the food
Guardian: Waht~? Good girl, you're having it!!!
Guardian: You okay? You're having it for the first time..
Something that comes naturally for some..
comes as a dream coming true for Foy and the lady..
Guardian: God, thank you so much.. Thought this won't be possible..
The moment that is like a dream..♡
How Foy's getting long will be revealed shortly...♡
Vet: Fatal deformity, that was right. But that doesn't necessarily mean that it's impossible to be fixed
As medicine has progressed this far, we can live with those who have deformities, it can be fixed.
[Recent footage of Foy]
Foy can have food and water by herself even till today.