[Magdalen] Surprise vet visit

[Grace Cangialosi]

I did, too. It was suggested that if I got a puppy, I should get pet insurance, but neither was a puppy when I got one. However, consider what I went through my dog in the past year and how much it cost, insurance would have been a bargain!

> On Dec 15, 2014, at 7:51 AM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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