I'm waiting for a call from the vet any time now to find out lab results. I took my guy in yesterday morning after noticing what I thought was a wound on one foot. It turns out he has lesions on both back feet due to the EGC and it looks like it's been going on for some time. I'm so upset I missed it--he has long hair and isn't an on your lap or in your face kind of cat. I remember seeing a foot last month and thinking it looked odd, but I rarely get a good look at his feet so I didn't think much of it. This weekend I did notice a big behavior change--he was clearly irritated by his back legs and for the first time since he was born he didn't wake me up around 4-5 am to eat and go outside. He's sleeping a lot and purring more than usual when he's awake so I'm sure he's self-comforting. It must be uncomfortable to walk because he keeps twitching his hind end.
He's a feisty one at the vet and they had to sedate him to get a good look at the feet. More worrisome is the lymph nodes swollen almost to the size of golf balls. Labs were sent out and reports should be back tonight or tomorrow. They gave him sinjections of a steroid and antibiotic.
I found this forum when Pippin was a tiny one-week old orphan kitten that I found in the back yard and I was a clueless allergic person who was never going to have a cat. That was 6 1/2 years ago.
Very worried.
He's a feisty one at the vet and they had to sedate him to get a good look at the feet. More worrisome is the lymph nodes swollen almost to the size of golf balls. Labs were sent out and reports should be back tonight or tomorrow. They gave him sinjections of a steroid and antibiotic.
I found this forum when Pippin was a tiny one-week old orphan kitten that I found in the back yard and I was a clueless allergic person who was never going to have a cat. That was 6 1/2 years ago.
Very worried.
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