This was Ginger on 20th August...
Our vet took a swab and suspected it was Cryptococcosis. The treatment would be Itraconazole, so since he did not have any, I redirected Peggy Tiong (Ginger's rescuer) to our other panel vet, who then, diagnosed it as either mastcell cancer or an allergy.
Either one, the treatment would be the same - Prednisolone injection, antibiotic injection and to help with the sores, Socoseryl eye-gel.
Peggy applied the eye-gel daily and looked after Ginger so well....and now....
Ginger today, in for neutering.
Look at his eye now. The other facial sores have FULLY recovered. Only left a wee bit on his eye.
The vet is a bit concerned about the loss of almost 75% of the eyelid. The eyelid provides nutriments to the eye, so without the eyelid, the eye would be quite "deprived". One way is to keep applying eye drops to moisturise the eye.
Peggy had already spent so much in looking after Ginger. Ginger's treatment was sponsored entirely by Peggy herself and Peggy also personally nursed Ginger for a whole month. Peggy has also sent quite a number of cats to us for spay-neuter, but each time, she would re-donate to our fund, more than what was spent (!), so now, the very least we could do was to sponsor Ginger's castration today.
We hope Ginger will recover as fully as he can.
P.S. Ginger appears to be an abandoned pet as he is well-built, looks well-fed and is very "manja" (people-friendly).
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