It never rains with vets bills, it pours! Cleo my cat got rushed to the emergency vet this afternoon. I didn’t realize, but my quiet, unassuming girl had an abscess in her mouth. It must have been agony for her. This afternoon, I was in the study when I heard a scream of pain from one of the cats. I rushed to see what was happening, and saw my baby girl foaming at the mouth having what I thought was a fit. She was pawing and clawing at her face. I have never been so scared!
I rushed her to the vet (it would have to be out of hours and the ER vet!) and it turns out that she had an abscess that had burst in her mouth with very severe gingivitis and ulcers. Thing is, she has no tarter on her teeth, and doesn’t need a dental. The vet gave her some morphine for the pain along with antibiotics and an anti-inflamatory, and she has to go back tomorrow evening (Sunday) for a second antibiotic shot.
I feel so guilty I didn’t notice sooner.
It’s been one thing after another with this lot in the last few weeks. First it was Barney my ferret, who has a cancerous lump in his abdomen and is on paliative care until I have to call the grim reaper. Then it was Cara my dog being hospitalized, and now it’s Cleo.
Fortunately, my dad has been kind enough to pay for Cleos vets bills for me until I can pay him back, but we have a battery of viral tests she has to undergo next week to rule out various immune diseases and I'm worried about that.
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And to cap it all off, a so-called friend told me that I needed to get rid of my animals because they cost too much. She told me I should have Cleo put to sleep, because she was only a cat, and I had 4 others! Some people have NO idea!
Sorry, just had to get the rant off my chest.
RC
