Off to the vet to check out a disturbing something on Bella (cyst? infected scratch? growth? tumor?) that appeared out of nowhere. I swear if it’s not one animal it’s one of the others.
I’m not gonna post the picture of it because, well, yuck.
So the doc has no idea what happened—it’s not in the right place for an anal glands issues and she said it looks like a bite or something and asked if my other cat would’ve attacked her and I told her I really didn’t think so…so they’re kind of confused.
So they drained it and said the skin is going to come off so she has a collar to keep from licking it and we have to put warm compresses on it to try to drain it a few times every day. She’s on antibiotics and the gabapentin painkiller which we at least had from the last vet visit for Charlie. And to top it all off we have to come back multiple times (every other day) to get the area “lasered” to help the gaping wound heal (because the area of skin that is coming off is HUGE). And of course I rarely have anything on my schedule, but the next week is crazy. Which I now get to fit vet visits in there.
So for right now she’s in Maggie’s travel crate so I can keep her contained without her bleeding all over…and waiting until the painkiller starts working. I gave her food and water—which isn’t easy since she has the collar on. At least giving her the meds wasn’t too hard and will knock her out.
