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Rico's Riddles

Zoooommm!

**Zooms into the room & screeches to a halt**

Hi!

As you might suspect, I am feeling so much better!

Mom keeps making me take that nasty pink stuff every day, but I think it must be magic, because I feel a lot better! Mom keeps checking the lymph node & she informed me it was about pea size now! So it's gone down a lot.

I really started acting like my old self yesterday was launching off the beds at unsuspecting sibs (even the dog!)

I will snuggle with mom at night & she will be cooing to me & petting me when WHAM! I snatch her arm & give it a pawsome rabbit kick!

She hoots & hollers & I just look at her with my big blue eyes & she melts like so much putty in my paws! mol

Thanks for all the purrs & love you all have shown us. I know the purrs helped a lot!

It's my lymph node

Well we were able to get in to see the vet this afternoon.

He poked & prodded me, told mom my temp was normal.

He said it is my lymph node, but he's not sure why it's so swollen. Mom (being the clueless lady she is) asked if I could have caught anything from her when she was so sick with New Moanya.

Most of us kept her company, but I'm the main one that slept with her & watched over her during that time. The vet said it was possible but didn't think that's what was going on.

So he gave me a shot of vitamin B & Baytril & gave mom some Amoxidrops to give me at home for the next week.

He said he wasn't sure if the lymph node would go down or not because sometimes they don't. Mom was surprised at that because anytime her lymph nodes have gotten swollen they always went down after the medicine. She just assumed it would work the same with us kits & pups.

He said that if I'm not doing better after the medicine is gone that he would like to do a needle aspiration & look at it under a microscope. He wanted to do that today but he said it felt so solid that he wanted to wait because he didn't think he'd be able to get anything out of it.

You will never guess what I weigh! A whopping 13.6 pounds! Mom just laughed when he told her how much I weighed. I'm still one of the smaller cats in the house!

I wanted to thank everyfur for the purrs & rosies. Please keep me in your purrs until this stuff gets resolved.

I need purrs

Hi friends,

Mom is very worried about me tonight.

I've been laying around more than normal today & off in the laundry room.

When mom finally got me to come out in the living room I ate some food & jumped up on the computer desk next to her. (normal behavior)

Mom always takes my face in her hands & scratches me under my chin & gives me headbonks.

Well she went to scratch me & felt a very hard nickel sized knot to the right of my throat. Mom says it's about where a human would take their pulse in their throat, or maybe where a lymph node would be.

She checked to make sure it wasn't food lodged & couldnt get it to move or anything. But it hurts me because when she was checking to see if I'd gotten bit or scratched (thinking maybe a hard abscess) I shied away & she couldn't find any evidence of a scratch or bite.

She is going to take me to the vet tomorrow when she gets paid, but she is very worried about me.

Any purrs would be greatly appreciated. I will have mom update when we find something out.