So long story short. I moved in with my best friend/ex-gf a month and a half ago, and we were thinking about having a cat. A little while back, her family cat at home started being sick, with blood and pus coming out of his mouth. She took it to our flat on Saturday, and to the vet on Monday. Turns out, he had a tumor the size of a cherry under his tongue. Yesterday, he underwent surgery to remove it, and everything went as well as it could have, with the vet confident that he removed all of it, and that he would be fine.
A few hours later, as he was waking up next to us, he started going into some sort of frenzy, violently biting through his (most likely numb) tongue in the process, despite our best efforts to stop him and calm him down. Half an hour later, same thing happens, but he actually starts clawing at his mouth, tearing some skin off. I managed to hold his paws and, once again, he calmed down. With some signs of him being more awake and alert, I told my flatmate that we'd keep an eye on the tongue to avoid it getting infected, and I decide to let her keep an eye on him and to take a break.
Not 10 minutes later, she calls me, panicked, and I rush to the living room, only to realize that he'd just bit a good chunk of his tongue clean off.
We immediately rush to the vet in the dead of night, and they keep him under observation for the night. No stitches needed, no trace of infection, but a good third of his tongue is gone.
She picked him up an hour ago, and the vet was pretty pessimistic about his chances of recovering. We thought he would just have to learn how to eat and drink with some of his tongue missing, and that he would need help to clean himself.
I never had anything like that with any of the cats I've had. Has anyone ever been in a similar situation with their cat? How did it go?
Thanks a lot.
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