OT Feral Cat Bite

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Dear Groups:

 

Hello.  Last Tuesday I was bitten by a feral cat in the neighbor hood.  This cat

showed up five days before.  It was very aggressive and defensive.  I tried to

walk by it to go out our steps to my car and it would not move off the narrow

porch.  I tried to scare it off, but it kept licking its lips and became more

fixture like. 

 

I clapped and shooed, it stayed.  I got the idea to go get food for it and I

cautiously stepped out side and spilled the cat food over an area on the

narrow porch/steps.  It must have been starving it inhaled the food and

still would not move.  I final got my husband to come and work with the cat.  He

gently moved a broom between me and cat so I could walk to the car.  That was

five days ago.  Over the five days we feed it more and one family member sat

with the cat for a long time and was allowed to pick up the cat and cuddle it. 

 

Then came last Tuesday.  It came out of now where for food again and I fed it. 

I walked toward the steps and up them and the cat followed leaving its food, so

I turned around to take the cat to the food and pointed at the food and it

charged my hand bite in ans shook it like a shark to tear me apart.

 

I wigged out and called my husband and 911 and they called animal control.  My

arm was becoming painful, by six hours afterward I was at the Dr's office.  NON

Lyme literate.  I had eaten so I had to wait until about 11:30 PM to take my

first pill.  I was bitten about 1:30 AFTER NOON.  The next pill was a 1:30 PM on

Wednesday then I missed a dose and took the next dose at 6:00 AM.  So My dosing

is off by five hours.  The next day i went in for a tetanus shot. At another

office.  

 

They told me to take doxy because of my allergies to penicillin.  The dose ten

days worth at 100 mg twice a day.  It is my first time on doxy in two years. 

Doxy for Lyme is 28 days or longer. 

 

Should I try to get it extended?

 

The cat is under observation but is a goner on Friday.  I asked for a stool or

and urine sample which i figured would be easy to get because of the cage that

the animal is in.  They said NO!  They said the cat appears healthy so far, but

mean and angry.

 

How does one work with the government to get body fluids off an unknown animal? 

Is this needed by me for testing?

 

Not knowing the cat or its history I am very nervous,  I have Lyme and was just

bitten by something that was made mean, a neurotics or something, maybe bad

treatment by humans.  But I am edgy and worried.  I am having trouble spelling

just like before with the tick bite.  I hope this brain fog is the doxy killing

stuff, my arm is no longer in pain.

 

The claw makes are less red as is the bite.

 

Please write.  I welcome your responses.

 

Lymeover and out