*sigh*

This morning, I heard cosettemonster and arwenmonster fighting upstairs. When I got upstairs, I noticed that cosettemonster was favoring her back paw and she was holding it a bit out from her body. The way she was hobbling reminded me of what I used to do when I messed up by knee. She also looked like she was struggling to jump up onto things. My poor baby!

Yeah...this is going to be a shitty day. So...cosettemonster has an appointment to see the vet this afternoon. I iced it for about twenty minutes this afternoon. It must have made her leg feel better because she was purring and head-butting the ice pack.

arwenmonster is spending some time downstairs today. I think they both need some time to cool off.

Cosette

I took cosettemonster to the vet today. She looked at her knee and noticed that it was swollen and sore. She took X-rays of it and they were inconclusive. She thinks, at the worst, she's got a chipped bone and / or a torn ligament. At best, she got bit pretty bad in the leg. She noticed that cosettemonster did have the start of an abscess there. She gave me some antibiotics and some pain meds for her. I have to bring her back in a week so they can do another X-ray on her. If she's doing better, then it's probably just a bad bite. If she's not better, that means that she's got other problems and that she might need knee surgery. Poor kitty!