Ok, I don't want to make a big deal out of this...

Made arrangements for Cole to be shaved on Thursday morning. The woman came to my place, I got trannies from the vet, and discussed what dosage to be given when. Cole was to get 1/2 tab of Acevet 1 hour before the grooming.

A ways into the process, I gave him another 1/2 tab. The groomer had been bitten twice. Me - four times, not including the three fast repeated chomps that Cole gave my fingers. He was freaked out at being restrained and shaved.

He got done...I had several puncture wounds, and a tooth went right through the nail on my little finger into the cuticle area of the nail bed. There was a separate puncture on the other side of that finger. Two of the bites had left me in tears, as much from the shock as the pain. I wasn't expecting this, especially with the sedation.

I was seeing my doc later that day for something else, and mentioned the bite. He wrote me a scrip for antibiotics, told me to soak that finger in a shot glass of hydrogen peroxide for 15 minutes, and that if there was ANY sign of infection in the next 48 hours, to get the scrip filled.

Next morning, the nail was ok as far as swelling - but my right index finger and below the thumb were very swollen and stiff. I started taking the meds.

It's Sunday - and somehow I still feel weird. I break into a few tears much more easily. Cole is fine and acting the same, but part of me is reacting to him differently...like there is something else there besides Cole. I still give him head scritchies and he purrs...

Anyway, it really isn't that bad and the swelling is going down. But this hasn't happened to me before with my own cat. Years ago, I got two good chomps in the forearm from a boarding kennel cat (and had the same reaction).

Am I imagining this or can cat bites cause a person to be a bit off-centre for a while?

Thanks.