The Fuzzbucket Report

[billroper]

fuzzbucket_cat has had better days. Apparently, his right cheek contained an abscess of enormous size that resulted from a puncture wound and scratches from a cat fight at some undetermined time. This might explain why he's been reluctant to go out for some months, but since April?

The thing suddenly bumped up as a lump yesterday; then started leaking blood out of his eye socket this afternoon. We decided that it was definitely time to take him to the vet. She squeezed a bunch more crap out and decided that he was going to need surgery. She sent us home, because it was going to take a while. It took a good bit longer than she'd anticipated.

She's got him stitched together, but he lost a lot of tissue on the right side of his face, so it'll be a while before we know how he's going to look. But his eye will close normally and his lip seems to be ok, so those are good things. He's going to need to wear a cone for two weeks and he's not going to like that at all.

He's under anesthesia and isn't going to wake up for another couple of hours, at which point daisy_knotwise will pick him up and bring him home, since he isn't likely to sleep well at the vet's, which he regards as kitty cat hell.

And that's the news...

Comments

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Oh. My.
Poor puss! 8[

I would have thought the cause would be an event more recent than April, certainly -- I've had cats get that sort of infection from a fight (on an arm, or under the chin [that latter was a souvenir from the squirrel that got away], but never so close to an eye!) and it's usually more like a week for the infection to build.

Gah. Good luck to all three of you!

[spiritdancer]

Unless this is one of those abcesses that's been stewing about low-grade for a bit (coming up, draining a little, sealing over, rinse lather repeat). It's entirely possible with an abcess on the face that it's been draining intermittently into, say, his mouth - you wouldn't necessarially notice anything in that case besides bad breath. Until it finally gets to be big enough and drains somewhere you can see it.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Good point. Truly icky, but good point ....

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Oh poor Fuzz! I'm glad to hear that he'll be okay, but wow that's horrible. *hugs to you and Gretchen and Fuzzbucket*

[jhayman.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor kitty. You know our kitty hell, so please accept REALLY SINCERE commiserations for yours. The pesky little buggers just steal your heart.

[andpuff.livejournal.com]

Oh poor kitten! Max says I should tell him that if he pees in your shoes he'll feel better but I'm not sure I should be passing that kind of subversive instruction on...