My poor little guy has a hematoma in his ear.. i believe- i have not gotten him to the vet but w/all the research i have done online i have come to the conclusion that this is what it is... I saw that it looked funny on sunday night but paid no attention to it since he was acting normal and thought maybe he just slept on it funny or it was itchy... well this is what it looks like today-- My heart is broken that i let it go THIS LONG w/out noticing! *bad kitty momma*
You can see in the ear towards the front and top the big bubble in his ear! It is painful for me to touch but he still responds to sound w/his ear and twitches it a bit from it hurting and itching I believe. My kitty doesn't have ear mites... He has had a problem w/chronic bacterial infections w/his ears... the vet gave me some stuff and showed me online where to order it from and that doesn't seem to help much- the thing that helped the most was the antibiotic injection he got there... poor baby- i wish i could just make it all go away for him! the internet says that his ear will go down (swelling) and it wont affect anything but how his ear looks- he'll have califlower ear and it will be deformed... *sniff* but how i love him anyways! I wish i could have prevented this but from what i have read it is from itching too much (which he does all the time) and from shaking their head too hard and too much (again one of his favorite past times) or from some sort of trauma... which i do not see any marks from a bite or anything else so i have ruled that out myself... *sniff* i'm so upset about this! Anyone know of anything that works really well on chronic ear infections for kitties?! Any advice is appreciated...
*sorry for the typos... for some reason my spell check thing isn't working?*
and i'm trying to get him in to see the vet on friday- already called and they are booked for tomorrow and i am 10th! on the cancellation list! hopefully they sense the urgency in my voice and call me!