Well, my stress levels are through the roof again. Though, after finally speaking with the people a the vets office and they not seeming worried about it I've relaxed a bit.
Yesterday afternoon I noticed that one of my cats seemed to have this weird swelling on one side of his face. At first I just thought his fur was fluffed up or something and went to smooth it down. When I touched him I realized it wasn't his fur. The side of his face was actually swollen. As I felt around, trying to figure out what it was, it seemed more like a roundish ball at the back of his jaw. I couldn't find anything that would account for it. No blood or injury. Tried to look in his mouth but couldn't see anything. I called and left a message for my vet but an hour later the swelling was almost completely gone. I assumed it was just maybe an insect bite or something and it was now going away. I went on to bed feeling a bit better about it since Sol did not seem to be in any sort of pain or discomfort.
When I woke up the next morning though his upper right lip seemed swollen. I can't figure out if i missed that the day before or if it was something new. As the minutes ticked by the cheek/jaw seemed to swell up again. Another call to the vets to leave another voice mail message as I was hoping they would call me as soon as they opened. Another hour went by and the swelling went down again. Almost back to complete normal. Sol doesn't appear to be bothered by the swelling at all. He is still eating. He was using the scratching post a little while ago, too. He lets me mess with his face (somewhat) to try and see if I can see anything and doesn't seem to be in any pain.
I called the vets yet again, wanting to know if they thought I needed to bring him in or not and finally got a person instead of just the answering machine. They seemed confused by his symptoms but not alarmed. As he has an appointment Saturday to check up on his ear infection (which should, hopefully, be completely cleared up) they said just to keep an eye on him and make sure to keep that appointment.
Okay, so the vet is not worried by this. Any clues/ideas/guesses as to what this might be? They have not been outside in over a week but Sol is one of the 2 of my cats who likes to chomp down on any random object he finds lying around. I am going to make sure they look at it on Saturday but until then I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas? All 3 cats just got a complete physical, along with blood work and what not, on the 12th and the only thing they found was an ear infection in Sol and the beginnings of one on one of the other 2. So, what could this be?
Yesterday afternoon I noticed that one of my cats seemed to have this weird swelling on one side of his face. At first I just thought his fur was fluffed up or something and went to smooth it down. When I touched him I realized it wasn't his fur. The side of his face was actually swollen. As I felt around, trying to figure out what it was, it seemed more like a roundish ball at the back of his jaw. I couldn't find anything that would account for it. No blood or injury. Tried to look in his mouth but couldn't see anything. I called and left a message for my vet but an hour later the swelling was almost completely gone. I assumed it was just maybe an insect bite or something and it was now going away. I went on to bed feeling a bit better about it since Sol did not seem to be in any sort of pain or discomfort.
When I woke up the next morning though his upper right lip seemed swollen. I can't figure out if i missed that the day before or if it was something new. As the minutes ticked by the cheek/jaw seemed to swell up again. Another call to the vets to leave another voice mail message as I was hoping they would call me as soon as they opened. Another hour went by and the swelling went down again. Almost back to complete normal. Sol doesn't appear to be bothered by the swelling at all. He is still eating. He was using the scratching post a little while ago, too. He lets me mess with his face (somewhat) to try and see if I can see anything and doesn't seem to be in any pain.
I called the vets yet again, wanting to know if they thought I needed to bring him in or not and finally got a person instead of just the answering machine. They seemed confused by his symptoms but not alarmed. As he has an appointment Saturday to check up on his ear infection (which should, hopefully, be completely cleared up) they said just to keep an eye on him and make sure to keep that appointment.
Okay, so the vet is not worried by this. Any clues/ideas/guesses as to what this might be? They have not been outside in over a week but Sol is one of the 2 of my cats who likes to chomp down on any random object he finds lying around. I am going to make sure they look at it on Saturday but until then I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas? All 3 cats just got a complete physical, along with blood work and what not, on the 12th and the only thing they found was an ear infection in Sol and the beginnings of one on one of the other 2. So, what could this be?