Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Baby

I have two cats: Rocky and the Baby. Earlier this summer, when I took both of them to a veterinarian appointment, the vet noticed that the Baby had a lump on the back of her tongue. It was a raised whitish bump about the size of a Tums. Earlier tonight, when the Baby came out from underneath the bed (as she eventually does every night when I come home from work), I picked her up to pet her and to clean out her eyes (as I usually do, because they always have eye gunk collected at the corner of each eye). I noticed that she had dried blood in one of her nostrils. After I cleaned it up, it seemed that there was blood still inside her mouth. I held her for a few minutes, and she was content as always. So I just let her run around the apartment for a while with Rocky. Now, only a minute ago, I come into the bedroom to find that several streaks of blood are on her coat, indicating that she must've been licking her coat with a bloody tongue. I forced open her mouth to examine the back of her tongue, and it looks the same as it has for the past couple months. So I'm not sure what's going on. I just pray to God that it's nothing serious and that she's as healthy as she has been. On a positive note, she's acting as she always does. I'll say a prayer for her tonight when I go to bed.

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