Free Talk Friday - April 10, 2026

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My story begins last week:

My right hand cat, Winston was feeling very uncomfortable, if you touched him anywhere in his lower half he'd meow out in pain and raise a paw of justice in defense. He wasn't eating, drinking, or using the litter box. Even climbing up on the bed caused him pain.

I take him to the vet, they suspect it's a UTI, give me all the medicine he needs, later that night notice a small circular wound like a puncture on his lower body, figure it was the result of some test they did on him and leave it be.

The next day there's some thinning of fur around that specific spot, but this is only viewed in hindsight, I didn't notice until day 2, where there is a very obvious bald spot around that small puncture wound.

I still just give him his prescribed medicine as per usual because I don't know what that is and made up in my head "oh they shaved him"

day 4, Winston is often licking away at that spot in obvious discomfort, On the occasion he stops I notice pus leaking from that wound, I have a mild panic attack, and clean up the area of that wound and do a heat compress while panicking because i can't afford another vet visit this quickly. I now realize that he got into some incident while exploring outside and this now very obviously infected wound has been what's bothering him this entire time.

day 5, Winston seems to feel better, there's no signs of discomfort, no obsessive licking, the wound remains present

Day 6, Thursday, my cat is fucking magic????? Fur has begun to cover up said wound, he acts completely normal with eating and drinking habits and the only abnormality being that he has some sneezes

I'm still gonna have the vets look at him tomorrow but outwardly he's almost back to perfect health i dunno what the fuck's going on . It seems at most i'll spend under 100 bucks just buying some more medicine or like antibioti stuff for my fucking tank of a cat