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Poor Francis: Poor Me
Purrs for both of you to heal quickly with no complications.
-- Joy No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. - Leo Dworken "wafflycat" wrote in message ... Poor Francis. He has turned into a man-eater. Specifically he's a meowmie-eater. Poor cat. I've just had him to the vet on an emergency visit. Francis has been fine, but noticed this afternoon, he was walking with his tail *down* and he would not let anyone near his tail to investigate. Looked like a broken tail. I rang the vet, described Francis's symptoms. Vet agreed either a possible broken tail or an abscess. So I bundled one upset and sore cat into a carrier & took him off to the vet. Francis cried on the trip there, poor boy. The vet was Mr Kennedy, who is a very good, caring vet. In the exam room, I held the end of Francis with the teeth, Mr Kennedy examined to sore end. To be fair to Francis, and to Mr Kennedy - Mr K was trying to be as gentle as he could be but unfortunately Francis did not appreciate this *at all* Francis gave due warning: several times, long and loud. Hissing, spitting, growling, it all came long & loud. Alas, when he'd had enough, it was my hand he chewed down on. And boy, can Francis chew down hard. So I have several deep bite marks in my right hand. These have been washed thoroughly and had much alcohol on and in them, so I'm hoping there's nothing nasty going to fester. My hand is a tad swollen though. Francis now has a tail with a large bald patch on it and has had an injection of long-lasting antibiotic and painkiller. He's looking a bit perkier already. |
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Poor Francis: Poor Me
wafflycat wrote:
Poor Francis. He has turned into a man-eater. Specifically he's a meowmie-eater. Poor cat. I've just had him to the vet on an emergency visit. Francis has been fine, but noticed this afternoon, he was walking with his tail *down* and he would not let anyone near his tail to investigate. Looked like a broken tail. I rang the vet, described Francis's symptoms. Vet agreed either a possible broken tail or an abscess. [snip, for space only] ...unfortunately Francis did not appreciate this *at all* Francis gave due warning: several times, long and loud. Hissing, spitting, growling, it all came long & loud. Alas, when he'd had enough, it was my hand he chewed down on. And boy, can Francis chew down hard. So I have several deep bite marks in my right hand. These have been washed thoroughly and had much alcohol on and in them, so I'm hoping there's nothing nasty going to fester. My hand is a tad swollen though. Poor Francis! I hope his tail owie clears up soon. If the antibiotics don't do the trick, what's next? X-rays, I guess? Purrs for his tail. I wonder what happened - was it pecked by a chicken beak, perhaps? Is he a henpecked kitty? And purrs for you, too, and your sore hand! I know that you know what to do if it starts to look infected, but I hope you won't have to. -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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Poor Francis: Poor Me
wafflycat wrote:
He's looking a bit perkier already. In self-defense, maybe? Purrs coming for Francis' hind end and for your hand. Sam, supervised by Mistletoe |
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Poor Francis: Poor Me
wrote in message ... Poor Francis! I hope his tail owie clears up soon. If the antibiotics don't do the trick, what's next? X-rays, I guess? Purrs for his tail. I wonder what happened - was it pecked by a chicken beak, perhaps? Is he a henpecked kitty? No, not hen. It's a definite deep bite And purrs for you, too, and your sore hand! I know that you know what to do if it starts to look infected, but I hope you won't have to. Aye. It's sore this morning, but it's a soreness from a deep bruising I feel. It's not hot and aching with infection. But I am keeping a close eye on it. -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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Poor Francis: Poor Me
Aye. It's sore this morning, but it's a soreness from a deep bruising I feel. It's not hot and aching with infection. But I am keeping a close eye on it. Ah well... it has developed an infection. So I've cleaned it and drained it and will be off to the doc in the morning. |
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Poor Francis: Poor Me
"wafflycat" wrote in message ... Aye. It's sore this morning, but it's a soreness from a deep bruising I feel. It's not hot and aching with infection. But I am keeping a close eye on it. Ah well... it has developed an infection. So I've cleaned it and drained it and will be off to the doc in the morning. Ouch. Healing purrs for both of you coming up. Tweed |
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Poor Francis: Poor Me
"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "wafflycat" wrote in message ... Aye. It's sore this morning, but it's a soreness from a deep bruising I feel. It's not hot and aching with infection. But I am keeping a close eye on it. Ah well... it has developed an infection. So I've cleaned it and drained it and will be off to the doc in the morning. Ouch. Healing purrs for both of you coming up. Tweed Ta. As Francis's tail has much reduced in inflammation & nastiness, perhaps I should phone the vet and ask him for the same jab he gave Francis yesterday ;-) |
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Poor Francis: Poor Me
wafflycat wrote:
"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "wafflycat" wrote in message ... Aye. It's sore this morning, but it's a soreness from a deep bruising I feel. It's not hot and aching with infection. But I am keeping a close eye on it. Ah well... it has developed an infection. So I've cleaned it and drained it and will be off to the doc in the morning. Ouch. Healing purrs for both of you coming up. Tweed Ta. As Francis's tail has much reduced in inflammation & nastiness, perhaps I should phone the vet and ask him for the same jab he gave Francis yesterday ;-) No, don't do that! He will lift your tail. Hope both of you feel better soon, Rhonda |
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Poor Francis: Poor Me
wafflycat wrote:
Aye. It's sore this morning, but it's a soreness from a deep bruising I feel. It's not hot and aching with infection. But I am keeping a close eye on it. Ah well... it has developed an infection. So I've cleaned it and drained it and will be off to the doc in the morning. Oh, sorry to hear that. Hope it gets better soon. Purrs, -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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Poor Francis: Poor Me
wrote in message ... wafflycat wrote: Aye. It's sore this morning, but it's a soreness from a deep bruising I feel. It's not hot and aching with infection. But I am keeping a close eye on it. Ah well... it has developed an infection. So I've cleaned it and drained it and will be off to the doc in the morning. Oh, sorry to hear that. Hope it gets better soon. Purrs, Got back from the human-TED. Had a tetanus jab and got a week's supply of antibiotic. |
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