Let me start off by saying that I am so glad I found this website! Everyone seems so nice and caring and helpful. About a month ago, my 15 mo. old kitty Taya was involved in a car accident -- she climbed into my father's engine and, not knowing, he left for work. Taya fell out down the road and luckily avoided being run over, but she did hit something (the tire, the ground, we're still not sure) and suffered a broken sacrum and a fractured pelvis. Her tail was amputated and is healing fine, however she now suffers from bladder issues. She is totally fine otherwise -- still eating and drinking, walking/jumping just fine, sleeping, playing, destroying the furniture.
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She has good anal tone and is able to poop on her own (95% of the time even in the litter box!) so that is a blessing. However, my dad and I are having to express her bladder. I can't seem to do it by myself so he's been awesome in helping me. We try to do it at least three times a day and we're getting along pretty well. About two weeks ago, when we brought Taya home for good the vet's office told us they'd seen some pee in her litter that day and we got really excited. But we have yet to see her pee on her own in the litter. Occasionally she leaks a little bit of urine when she's lying somewhere so we started trying to express her bladder more. About three days ago, we stopped being able to get much urine out when we expressed, which was odd. And then we started finding big puddles of urine around the house. We have two other cats and two dogs but the cats are mainly outside and the dogs are taken out regularly so we do not think it was them. Added to the fact that she has now twice peed in my bed (once last night while we were both sleeping) I'm almost certain it's Taya. This really worries me because it seems like she's gone from being unable to get the pee out to not being able to hold it in at all.
I realize that nerves can take a very long time to heal, and the vet seems very optimistic. It has only been roughly a month since the accident so I know that we haven't given it long enough, but now I am afraid that Taya is totally incontinent. I am scheduled to take her back to the vet tomorrow to have her stitches removed and will speak to the vet about it then. You can imagine how frustrating this is -- nobody likes to constantly clean up pee! Does anyone have any experience with their kitty doing this? Is there any hope at all that her nerves might possibly heal more and allow her to control her bladder?