Shoots is home with the most miraculous story to tell. He underwent surgery to treat pectus excavatum, a deformity of his rib cage. First, the doctor manually manipulated the rib cage to the correct position, then fastened a hard plate to his bones to keep the rib cage in place. On the very last stitch, Shoots suddenly struggled to breathe. He suffered a complication called re-expansion pulmonary edema — his lungs, now with room to expand, inflated too fast. In almost all cases with cats, this i