Aroara's saga continues...update #77(with graphic picture)

[Moesha]

We are all going to be gone for the weekend for a convention. The girl that I have coming to look after the furkids has a dog and a cat of her own. She was telling me that they are having some trouble dealing with fleas on her dog. I sure don't want to ask her to watch Aroara with that going on over there. Plus, if something happens and she gets worse, the vet's office is closed. The closest emergency vet is an hour away. The best option would be for her to stay inside here because she won't squawk the entire weekend. But for her to have someone to watch her would be to be boarded, but then she is caged and frustrated to no end and I couldn't get her until Monday morning and would have to drop her off tomorrow night.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I'm glad to hear that she's feeling better and is now home. I'm sorry to hear that her face is starting to swell up again. Hopefully you'll be able to have some one to keep an eye on her while you're away. I hope she'll recover quickly.

[Moesha]

I called the office this morning and talked with the tech who had helped the vet the most in dealing with Aroara. She said they searched her face and only found what might be a tiny wound under her eye. I told her about the big spot near her ear, and she said that I could bring her by and they would look at what I was seeing. I was working this morning until noon. The vet does surgeries from noon until 3. So I packed Aroara up and got to the office about 3:15. It was swamped. I guess everyone was getting their last minute checkups before the holiday weekend. We waited about half an hour and then the same vet tech motioned us into a room. She looked at Aroara's head and said that she hadn't seen that before. She tried to shave it, but Aroara wasn't having any of that. So the doctor came in a few minutes later and looked at her. He decided that since it was going into a holiday weekend, he would go ahead and knock her out and remove the abcess. There was only an hour left until closing time, but he squeezed her in. She was passed out cold and looked so cute when I went back to pick her up. She has since woken up, but is still sort of groggy. Despite that, she has attempted to sneak outside. Those attempts were thwarted though! So I'll be leaving in the morning as planned and hoping that all goes well with the furkids until I get back Sunday evening.

They never said what they thought might have caused the problem, but I'm thinking she was bitten by a snake. Look at those two perfectly round holes in my baby's head. I took that with my cell phone because the flash on the regular camera was washing it out. I think you can get the idea though.

[Emeraldgreen]

It does look like a snake bite! Poor Aroara. She has been through so much in the last few days but I'm sure she will begin to feel better asap now that the pressure of the abscess is gone. I'm glad you kept examining her at home because you know her better than anybody and you just knew something wasn't right. Thank goodness she's finally on the mend!

[Moesha]

Thank you very much for your concern throughout this past week.

Here's a picture I took of it with the regular camera. They are puncture holes. At least the vet said there wasn't much pus in there. Guess the antibiotics are doing their thing. I sort of looks like it is swelling to me again. But maybe it is just because there is no hair there. I'm going to hope anyway.

[Catty1]

Poor baby! How is she feeling (aside from trying to sneak out?)

I hope she heals up just fine with that abcess out...heavens, what if the vet hadn't operated?

Good Mommy! Spotting that nasty bit and taking her back in.

HUGS and I hope she is well soon!

[Moesha]

She is still groggy from being knocked out. But she has helped herself to Morgan's food and has had some water. The first place she went was the litterbox. Poor baby. I didn't know that she'd headed that way and I heard some strange noises. I guess she was too groggy to get herself inside the litterbox. That was a couple of hours ago though. She's getting around pretty good right now. She has wanted to be in my lap. That's not a usual thing for her. The vet said that by tomorrow she should be back to normal. She was feeling fine before having the abcess removed. I don't know what would have happened. He seemed to indicate that the reason he went ahead and did it was that he wouldn't be around and the office would be closed for 3 days. I'm glad I saw that first puncture wound. I didn't know the second one was there until they shaved her head.