Today Ziggy had his trip to the vet for his x-ray. We took him in at 8:45 this morning, howling like a banshee in his cat box. Honestly, if Schrödinger had used Ziggy in his experiments, there would never have been any doubt as to  whether the cat were alive or dead, he would have been able to tell just by listening!
So we booked him in and were given instructions to phone in the late afternoon to see how he’d got on, then come in for another consultation at 6 to discuss the results. Unfortunately, cats have to be given a general anaesthetic for x-rays because there is no way that they’d stay still enough otherwise, that’s why Ziggy had to be there all day.
At 4 we phoned and were told that all went well and Ziggy was coming out of the anaesthetic now. So far so good!

At 6 we went back to the surgery and nervously met with the vet.
I’m going to tentatively say it was good news! It seems that Ziggy doesn’t have a tumour at all! It’s actually swelling around a nasty fracture to one of his wrist bones, and friction abrasion to the head of the radius. A fairly serious injury for a four-legged animal but one that should heal naturally with minimal intervention!
So we’ll be keeping him dosed up on analgesia and anti-inflammatories and regular check-ups at the vet for the next month or so and see what happens. All being well it will sort itself out and the swelling will go down. If not we may have to return to the vet again and perhaps think about some kind of intervention to help it heal.
So a huge and very heartfelt thank you to those wonderful people who left a little something in the tips jar, you made a big difference and lightened the load on the vet’s bill today. We still had some way to go to make up the shortfall and it has left us short on other bills this month, especially as our horrible car has started signs of dying died (a strong stench of sulphur, repeatedly blowing fuses, three new scraping and clunking noises and a gearbox that pops out of gear without warning!) but your donations lessened the pain considerably!
A million times thank you.