[Magdalen] Surprise vet visit

[Judy Fleener]

We had insurance to pay the pediatricians.


On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> When my cat Smudge climbed on my lap last night, I noticed that there
> appeared to be a large chunk missing out of his neck just below his ear.
> It was lightly scabbed over, but clearly the blood beneath hadn't quite
> clotted yet.  I couldn't imagine what had happened, because he was fine in
> the morning, but thought maybe he had gotten bitten. Decided I'd better get
> him in to the vet this morning.
> This morning the place was totally scabbed over, but I was worried about
> infection, so I took him to the vet, still very puzzled.  I started
> thinking maybe it was an abscess of some kind.
> So we were in the examining room, and just before the vet came in, the
> thing exploded all over the floor!  It was an abscess, all right, with a
> lot of necrotic tissue to boot, and the cat was running a fever.  I can't
> imagine how it just came up like that.  So he had minor surgery involving
> stitches and a drain, and I took him home an hour later.  Yuck!!  My
> suspicion is that in one of his numerous rounds of play fighting with his
> larger buddy, he did get bitten and the bite got infected.
>
> At any rate, it seems that the money the pediatricians used to get now goes
> to the vets!
>
>
> --
> Grace Cangialosi
> Ruckersville, VA
>
> It's a good thing Mary didn't have to wait for a Doctrine of the
> Incarnation
> before she said "Yes" to God.
>


-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan