I know I've been gone forever and here is one of the reasons that I have needed you guys so much!
About 3 weeks ago I came home to find Mud Pie limping on his back leg. I felt and examined it but could find no visible injury. Assuming he had just sprained it I didn't worry. I came home the next night to find him totally down and his foot was swollen HUGE! The next day was spay/neuter clinic day at the shelter and I knew the shelter vet would be there so I brought Mud Pie in for her to check. She couldn't find an injury either and said I needed to massage it to reduce the swelling. She squeezed around on it some and he screamed in pain. Late that night it busted open. I then assumed it was an abscess. I wasn't really happy with how things were going and he seemed really sick so I took him to my vet the next day. When we got there he was burning up with fever and had a bad infection. The doc squeezed out all the goo and put him on five days of injections as well as oral meds. We all thought it was a nasty abscess.
After all the meds he seemed to be a lot better but I could not get the leg to heal up. I thought it was because he was constantly licking at it and keeping it open. It would scab over and he would pick it off. He still had a slight limp. One night I was looking it over and I could see under the scab what looked like a piece of bone sticking out of his leg. Well that freaked me out and the next day I took him to the shelter to get neutered and asked her to look at his leg again while he was asleep.
This is where things get weird!
She picked the scab off so she could see inside and out came a big piece of bone stuck on the scab!!!!She freaked out and so did I! She said she had never seen such a thing and had no idea what I should do. Not encouraging words from a vet!
Now this just happened Wednesday and I intend to take him to my vet one day this week. The strange thing is that now that the bone fragment is out his leg is completely healed.
This is a picture of his leg with the open abscess. If you have a week stomach you may not want to look at this.
See the two bones that are exposed? I don't know which one was broken and came out.
These are a couple of pictures of the piece of bone.
Size comparison
His leg today.
It's hard to tell in the last picture but it looks like his little toe is kind of drawing up and getting shorter. According to the shelter vet both ends of the bone in his leg should calcify so don't worry but I'm not happy with that answer! He has two jagged ends of bone still in his leg with nothing in the middle! That just doesn't seem right to me!
Have any of you ever heard of anything like this? Any thoughts?
Why can't my cats do anything normal????
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. I hope that your vet will be able to help him and that he'll heal up quickly and feel better soon. Please take care and continue to keep us updated about him.
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