Poor kitty!

[cjsmith]

Little Girl went in for teeth cleaning on Monday. Unrelated, except for piggybacking on the anesthesia, she also had

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a small patch of skin

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excised for biopsy. Because of the state of her teeth beforehand, she's getting antibiotics twice a day. Because of the incision, she's wearing an Elizabethan collar. She's pretty miserable. She keeps bumping into things, she is having a hard time eating, she can't rub her face against her humans, and she can't wash just about anywhere.

The good news is that her blood work is fine; she shows no evidence of problems related to having eaten the recalled Hill's m/d food. Biopsy results will be back in another day or two.

Rob says I need a new LJ icon picturing this cat in her current pathetic state. Me, I think I'd rather not remind myself afterwards.

Twelve more days and she gets her stitches out and the collar off.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Seems long to me. I wonder how deep they had to make that cut. Last time I had something on the surface excised for biopsy, they went pretty deep, but I didn't think it was two weeks for the stitches even so.

[wooddragon.livejournal.com]

That sounds like *forever* for a cat to be wearing an Elizabethan collar...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

One week isn't very long, though, right? Maybe I'll call the vet one week after the procedure, and if her incision looks good and she's not trying to attack it, I'll ask whether I can remove the collar.