My BIG Angus bit me in my sleep!

[marinafb]

My BIG Angus bit me in my sleep I have 3 herniated discs in my back and I thrash around a lot my hand hit the cat hard and he bit me in 3 different places. I jumped out of bed and my hand was really bleeding! One of the bites was on my knuckle I cleaned it out and bandaged it up the next am my hand was so swollen I couldn’t move it. In the afternoon I went to the ER they said why did you wait so long cat bites are very serious. I never knew that really I didn’t I thought dog bits were bad but I never knew cat bites could be that serious they said also since I am diabetic it was serious. I had 2 sets of antibiotics intravenously and then they put me on oral antibiotics.

[aggghgmom]

Oh naughty, naughty, bad cat!!!

That sounds really nasty - What a mess - I hope everything is OK - I just re-read your post I was wondering why Angus did that but now I read that you think you hit him while sleeping.

Well he certainly is a beautiful cat but obviously not very good a sharing a bed!!

Seriously, I hope you are on the mend...quickly

Randy & Harley

[lins_saving_grace]

oh no.  I hope you feel better soon.

[shangrila]

Yikes  Hope your hand is ok

[marinafb]

Thank you all for your kind words i just came back from the Drs and i will have to go back again next week my hand is still very swollen and hot!I took the bandage off i could not stand anything on it! We will see what happens thanks again Marina PS All 3 of my pups are sick Bryce brought something home from school they all were at the vet 2xs last week and they go back tomorrow!

[Ali]

Bad, bad Angus! Mend quickly - it sounds awful. 

[London_Pyr_Lover]

Oh no!!  I'm so sorry about your hand!  I know how much that sucks, I got between my cat and a neighborsa cat once and my hand swelled up to the size of a grapefruit!    It took about 2 weeks for the swelling to go down, it looked real nasty for a while too, once the entire hand went down, I had a big golf ball sized lump for another week or 2.   

[marinafb]

Today it is raining and i am not sure if it has anything to do with it but the swelling seems to increased. I did use my hand a lot yesterday making up easter baskets try making bows with 1 hand! Try coloring eggs with 1 hand! Or balancing an egg on those things with the whole in them that you pull the egg out of the cup took way to long for me to finish everything! Marina

[GreatPyr]

So sorry about your injury
being diabetic myself I understand the healing process is longer and sometimes infection can set in to where in someone thats not diabetic it normally would not,glad you went on and got medical attention.