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Friday evening around 7PM I found my neighbor's 7 yr old male cat in my kitchen, looking hungry. He's wandered into my house (no screen doors) before, and wandered right back out again. Plus while he's not exactly playmates with my 5 yr old female cat, they do visit each other's yards and don't fight. So I thought he was being friendly, reached down to pet him and he went postal, chomped down hard on my hand and scratched my arm up pretty bad. Served me right I suppose.
Within a couple of hours the bite was starting to get swollen, even though I had immediately cleaned the wounds with peroxide and antibiotic ointment. So Saturday AM I went to the doctor, who gave me a script for Augmentin, an antibiotic. He said the cat's teeth function like hypodermics and "inject" the saliva deep into the wound, so surface cleaning probably didn't do me any good.
Today the hand is still swollen and throbbing with pain, localized at the base of my thumb where the bite was. If the swelling isn't going down by tomorrow the doc said he will consider reccomending IV antibiotics to deal with the infection! It's really sore, and the movement in my thumb is really restricted. This is my left hand, and fortunately I am right handed.
The strange thing is that the hydro I take for my back has no perceived effect on the pain in my hand, it throbs with pain, made worse by any attempt to move my thumb. Or maybe without the hydro I'd know just how painful this wound really was. A couple of Alleve on top of the Norco seems to help a little.
Basically I'm just venting. But does anybody have any experience with cat bites? And no, the cat isn't rabid. We hope!
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