Cats Headache

When we brought Miranda home for the first time, Musashi had injured his right eye and it had become swollen and infected. Well, we got that cleared up and now he has a large, swollen lump behind his left ear. It could be a lot of things, but hopefully it's just a sebacious cyst or another infection, which should clear up with drainage and antibiotics. He's going to the vet again this afternoon, so we'll be able to find out what's going on. If he keeps this up he's going to have to become an inside-only cat, which I know he would hate.

I love my cats, but I'm never going to have this many cats again.

Sheath Your Sword, Samurai

The boil burst even before I brought him in to the vet, but I didn't learn just exactly how horribly wounded he is until after the doctor shaved, lanced, and flushed out the wound. Poor Musashi looks like the victim of a zombie plague; the gaping holes on his neck look like Hollywood horror movie make up! It's truly disgusting, but it's lucky I noticed it when I did, because otherwise he might have become septic.

After spending nearly three hundred dollars at the vet Musashi is going to be taking liquid pain medication once a day, two different antibiotics twice a day, I will be flushing out his wound twice a day with an antibacterial solution, and then spraying the wound with another antiseptic twice a day. In three to four months I need to bring him back in to be tested for FIV.

Needless to say, Musashi will no longer be an outdoor cat; like his namesake, he seeks battle far too frequently!