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My cat just turned 12 years old. She has always been incredibly healthy, active, and happy. She was recently diagnosed with Injection Site Sarcoma, but she had the lump removed, and her margins came back clear, so she is okay!! I was overjoyed to hear that. However, the surgery was very recent, so she is still wearing her cone and still has sutures in at the incision site. For the surgery, they had to give her an IV catheter on her right paw.
Last night I came home to discover her limping (when she could even move at all) and moaning miserably, nonstop. It was late, so I took her to the 24 hour vet clinic because she was scaring me badly. On the way over, she was panting, drooling, and breathing so rapidly. I was terrified, but the vet took cat scans and they said they could find nothing wrong. They suggested that it might just be tissue trauma or something along those lines. She's still limping today, and she was laying down on her side for literally ten hours straight, which is so unusual since she's such an active cat. Today she jumped up on my bed (which is about four feet high) a couple of times, so that was a good, and she did walk around a bit, but whenever she walks she's still limping like crazy and licking at her paw nonstop (which she can't really do through the cone, but she tries).
Does anyone have any clue what could be going on??
( I didn't really understand the 'tissue trauma' explanation very well. My dad declawed her front paws when I was very young, in case that might have anything to do with it. Is it arthritis? She has limped a bit in the past, but usually only for a few minutes at a time and the incidents were months apart. She hasn't really limped in about two years.
If anyone knows anything I should do, or any way I could check her paw, I would appreciate it so much. Thank you so much for reading all of this!! I'm so sorry it's so long. I'm just so worried about her. Thanks again.
My cat just turned 12 years old. She has always been incredibly healthy, active, and happy. She was recently diagnosed with Injection Site Sarcoma, but she had the lump removed, and her margins came back clear, so she is okay!! I was overjoyed to hear that. However, the surgery was very recent, so she is still wearing her cone and still has sutures in at the incision site. For the surgery, they had to give her an IV catheter on her right paw.
Last night I came home to discover her limping (when she could even move at all) and moaning miserably, nonstop. It was late, so I took her to the 24 hour vet clinic because she was scaring me badly. On the way over, she was panting, drooling, and breathing so rapidly. I was terrified, but the vet took cat scans and they said they could find nothing wrong. They suggested that it might just be tissue trauma or something along those lines. She's still limping today, and she was laying down on her side for literally ten hours straight, which is so unusual since she's such an active cat. Today she jumped up on my bed (which is about four feet high) a couple of times, so that was a good, and she did walk around a bit, but whenever she walks she's still limping like crazy and licking at her paw nonstop (which she can't really do through the cone, but she tries).
Does anyone have any clue what could be going on??
( I didn't really understand the 'tissue trauma' explanation very well. My dad declawed her front paws when I was very young, in case that might have anything to do with it. Is it arthritis? She has limped a bit in the past, but usually only for a few minutes at a time and the incidents were months apart. She hasn't really limped in about two years.If anyone knows anything I should do, or any way I could check her paw, I would appreciate it so much. Thank you so much for reading all of this!! I'm so sorry it's so long. I'm just so worried about her. Thanks again.
