Poor Catie Mae

This last week Mike and I started to notice a bump forming under Catie's eye. When it first started, I thought maybe she was just bitten by a bug or something and it was just swollen from that, but when it didn't go away, and got bigger and much harder, I got worried. I also noticed she had a bright red rash on part of her body too.

I took Catie to the Vet Friday morning and come to find out the bump on Catie's face is from an abscessed tooth that has become infected. The Vet scared the ba-jee-bers out of me and said that if we don't pull it, it could kill Catie. WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?

Catie Mae has been my "baby girl" for 10 years now! There's NO WAY she's gonna leave me now. NO WAY! I started to tear up at the vet's office when they said that.

The bacteria from the tooth was already in her blood stream, and if they didn't pull her tooth, it could get into her heart and kill her. The bacteria had already spread to her bladder giving her a bladder infection. And it's also the reason why she had a bright red rash.

So Monday we are taking her to the Vet to get two of her teeth pulled and the rest of her teeth cleaned. She'll have to eat soft foods for a week while she adjusts to not having the two biggest teeth in her mouth.

Here are a few pictures of our poor little Catie Mae. The first one, you can kinda see the bump on the right side of her face. (Of course Catie wouldn't let me take a picture of that side of her face!) And the second picture, you can see in her eyes that she doesn't feel good. :-(