10-23-2023, 08:36 PM
Was looking for something else and just stumbled across this thread and couldn't help
but add my cat story.
I have lots of cats, I'm a dog person, shows you how much control I have over my life.
Anyway I moved back to my childhood home to flee Washington DC cuz it was too
expensive with no job and because my mom was getting old and could use a hand
and cuz her house was free. But down here starving kittens were always turning up
and there's just no way I'd could turn them down so I ended up with lots of cats and
blah blah blah. Anyway I had some partly feral cats that I was feeding and there was
a male that I wanted to get neutered. I try to get all my cats neutered so I enticed
him close with some food and then grabbed him to put him in a container and of
course he freaked out and bit down pretty hard but I'm really stubborn and though
it was very painful I managed to cram him into the case but he bit me hard quite a
few times on my left wrist.
Well I was really ignorant about cats and how dangerous their bite was because of
the infections you can get from it. If you ever get a deep puncture wound from a
cat's tooth, ALWAYS go to a doctor within a day of getting bitten. The treatment is
a cheap, common antibiotic that will treat it and you'll have no problems.
But I didn't know this and didn't go to the doc hoping it would get better and it just
kept swelling and getting worse and so I finally went to the hospital and it was a very
bad infection as the cat had bitten down to the bone.
They admitted me to the hospital, put me on intravenous antibiotics, and I was very
sick and the docs looked at my arm and the infection had actually eaten through two
tendons that controlled the little finger and ring finger on my left hand. So I got a
hand operation to repair the two tendons and to remove as much infection as they
could and was in the hospital for another week. When I got out my hand needed
to be in a cast for 4 months and then after that I needed occupational therapy for
another 4 months to mostly (but never completely) regain the use of my hand.
All this, of course, cost a bazillion dollars. A side benefit of this is that since I was
left-handed, I got to learn to write with my right hand. (The cat tamed down and
became a half-decent cat named Darrell There was another cat that looked just
like him and since I couldn't tell them apart, I named him Darrell as well.)
but add my cat story.
I have lots of cats, I'm a dog person, shows you how much control I have over my life.
Anyway I moved back to my childhood home to flee Washington DC cuz it was too
expensive with no job and because my mom was getting old and could use a hand
and cuz her house was free. But down here starving kittens were always turning up
and there's just no way I'd could turn them down so I ended up with lots of cats and
blah blah blah. Anyway I had some partly feral cats that I was feeding and there was
a male that I wanted to get neutered. I try to get all my cats neutered so I enticed
him close with some food and then grabbed him to put him in a container and of
course he freaked out and bit down pretty hard but I'm really stubborn and though
it was very painful I managed to cram him into the case but he bit me hard quite a
few times on my left wrist.
Well I was really ignorant about cats and how dangerous their bite was because of
the infections you can get from it. If you ever get a deep puncture wound from a
cat's tooth, ALWAYS go to a doctor within a day of getting bitten. The treatment is
a cheap, common antibiotic that will treat it and you'll have no problems.
But I didn't know this and didn't go to the doc hoping it would get better and it just
kept swelling and getting worse and so I finally went to the hospital and it was a very
bad infection as the cat had bitten down to the bone.
They admitted me to the hospital, put me on intravenous antibiotics, and I was very
sick and the docs looked at my arm and the infection had actually eaten through two
tendons that controlled the little finger and ring finger on my left hand. So I got a
hand operation to repair the two tendons and to remove as much infection as they
could and was in the hospital for another week. When I got out my hand needed
to be in a cast for 4 months and then after that I needed occupational therapy for
another 4 months to mostly (but never completely) regain the use of my hand.
All this, of course, cost a bazillion dollars. A side benefit of this is that since I was
left-handed, I got to learn to write with my right hand. (The cat tamed down and
became a half-decent cat named Darrell There was another cat that looked just
like him and since I couldn't tell them apart, I named him Darrell as well.)
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