one week from today she will get her stitches out...I am not too nervous about it...I have never met a cat as cooperative as her...I pick up her up gently, and turn her to where she is laying on her back in my arms..like you would hold a newborn baby, and she just lays there in awwww......Rocky would not let me do anything like that at all..she completely trusts me and it feels so good to know she does.. I love her so much!!