Vet drama
So, I took Trisket to the vet today, as I mentioned last night. It was surprisingly traumatic.
All of his symptoms are unilateral... the one runny eye, one drastically swollen lymph node, etc. and it turns out he has some bad gingivitis on that side, although they say his teeth look pretty clean. So, the theory is that an abcess or other type of tooth infection has caused a sinus infection. To get a 2nd opinion, the doctor took Trisket back to their dental specialist for a look. They were gone about 10 minutes.
As I waited, I heard a cat down the hall screaming bloody murder...for the whole ten minutes! I almost started crying because it sounded like they were torturing the poor animal, and it just wouldn't stop. I'd never in my life heard an animal in so much distress. When I later found out it was my cat that was making the fuss, I went all to pieces. I got tears all over my kitty and he gave me kisses in return. And all they had done was look at his mouth. They said he started crying as soon as they left the room and didn't quit until they got back to me.
So, they're going to do some dental and sinus x-rays in the morning and then clean his teeth and do whatever else needs to be done in there. They did pre-anesthetic blood work today. They started to take him away from me again, but I asked them to do the blood draw there in the exam room. "Can you handle watching us stick needles in your cat?" "Of course! I just can't stand listening to him scream from the next room." She thought he would scream anyway, but I was pretty sure he was only crying because he was very frightened. They humored me, thank God, and my good little boy was a model patient for his blood draw - barely a peep.
The moral of the story seems to be not to let them take this particular cat out of my sight when he visits them. Unfortunately, tomorrow we have to leave him there for several hours. :-( I'm not looking forward to it. In the meanwhile, they've started him on antibiotics to treat the infection. Tomorrow's visit focuses on addressing the root cause of the infection rather than the infection itself. I am proud to say that my kitty and I were world-class in our execution of the first dose of medicine this afternoon... we didn't lose a drop! Good kitty!
All of his symptoms are unilateral... the one runny eye, one drastically swollen lymph node, etc. and it turns out he has some bad gingivitis on that side, although they say his teeth look pretty clean. So, the theory is that an abcess or other type of tooth infection has caused a sinus infection. To get a 2nd opinion, the doctor took Trisket back to their dental specialist for a look. They were gone about 10 minutes.
As I waited, I heard a cat down the hall screaming bloody murder...for the whole ten minutes! I almost started crying because it sounded like they were torturing the poor animal, and it just wouldn't stop. I'd never in my life heard an animal in so much distress. When I later found out it was my cat that was making the fuss, I went all to pieces. I got tears all over my kitty and he gave me kisses in return. And all they had done was look at his mouth. They said he started crying as soon as they left the room and didn't quit until they got back to me.
So, they're going to do some dental and sinus x-rays in the morning and then clean his teeth and do whatever else needs to be done in there. They did pre-anesthetic blood work today. They started to take him away from me again, but I asked them to do the blood draw there in the exam room. "Can you handle watching us stick needles in your cat?" "Of course! I just can't stand listening to him scream from the next room." She thought he would scream anyway, but I was pretty sure he was only crying because he was very frightened. They humored me, thank God, and my good little boy was a model patient for his blood draw - barely a peep.
The moral of the story seems to be not to let them take this particular cat out of my sight when he visits them. Unfortunately, tomorrow we have to leave him there for several hours. :-( I'm not looking forward to it. In the meanwhile, they've started him on antibiotics to treat the infection. Tomorrow's visit focuses on addressing the root cause of the infection rather than the infection itself. I am proud to say that my kitty and I were world-class in our execution of the first dose of medicine this afternoon... we didn't lose a drop! Good kitty!
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