Heidi To The Vet’s
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Nov 10, 2019 
AnimalCare, NGOs 
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Late last night, Jia-Wen noticed a wound on Heidi’s thigh.
It looked like this. Wet.
That totally freaked me out and I quickly searched for pictures of Tiger’s and Zurik’s sporo lesions last time. Zurik had a classical sporo lesion, but Tiger’s were not the typical classical type.
And Heidi wound looked a bit like Tiger’s sporo lesions. So, you can imagine how worried I was all of last night, this morning and until we went to the vet’s. On the way there, I was thinking, “Oh no….a third cat with sporo??” Tiger healed in 54 days while Zurik healed in 28 days, but it was a lot of work and involved quarantine too.
Last night, I cleaned the wound with hibiscrub and applied some povidone iodine on it.
Heidi has been sneezing chronically as well and I know the sporo fungi can go the lungs, but I doubt this is the cause of her sneezes as she has always had this sneezing problem. Still, fear begets fear, you know.
Heidi does go out with us for taiji and sometimes, she refuses to come back with us. She would make her rounds and come back on her own terms. Sometimes, she goes into drains. I was worried that she might have contracted sporo from one of her many visits outdoors. In any case, we also have a garden that the cats have access to and the sporo fungi is found in the soil.
I was VERY worried.
So, we took her to the vet first thing this morning and as usual, there was some difficulty in getting Heidi out the carrier. Heidi is a little tigress and is an expert at swiping at humans.
Anyway, we finally got her out by opening the cover of the carrier and we had to cover her with a blanket (fortified with Feliway) before the vet could take a sample of her wound.
The sample was examined under the microscope and the vet said she only saw bacteria. There is no presence of any fungus.
That’s when I asked, “So it’s not sporo?”. And the vet said no.
PHEW!!!!!!!!!!! Imagine my relief.
The vet said it is a bacteria infected wound which is already drying up.
Another relief!! (Because sporo lesions are non-healing wounds, it wouldn’t dry up on its own.)
The vet prescribed an antibiotic cream, Fucidin, to be applied topically.
And while we were there, Heidi sneezed as well, and the vet said that was a “reverse sneeze”, probably due to blocked sinuses. It wasn’t anything serious.
Another relief!
The vet also examined Heidi further and said she had fat lumps in her abdomen as well as a hernia. This was exactly what the vet found 7 years ago when Heidi first came to us. The vet at the time said to leave the hernia alone. It hasn’t bothered Heidi ever since.
When Heidi first came to our doorstep 7 years ago, I took her for a check-up and that vet said she was already a “very old cat” based on the fact that she barely had any teeth left. But today, this vet says that based on her eyes, Heidi is probably maybe about 12-13 years old so that would put her at Cow, Bunny and Pole’s age.
But we will never know.
So, we came home. I was SO relieved that it isn’t sporotrichosis!
We are home now.
That’s the wound. The vet shaved the area around it.
Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2019/11/10/heidi-to-the-vets/
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