For those that have yet to learn, my OH lives in Geneva and I have moved back to UK for school. I went to visit him last week for 6 days and left my little princess with my housemate who was absolutely brilliant with her.

I arrived home yesterday and she gave me some very intense cheek rubbing

As we were falling asleep I found a lump on the back of her neck between her shoulder blades. I'll admit I cried and cried on the phone to my mother guessing all the terrible things it could be.
This morning I fed Ziggy and she wouldn't touch her breakfast. When she used her litter tray she had pretty bad diarrhoea also. Off we went to the vets....

The diagnosis:

Lump is likely due to vaccinations she had a week ago. If it gets any bigger and painful then I need to take her back in. She is going back in 2 weeks for them to check her lymph nodes again. She also got an anti-inflammatory shot while we were there and the vet checked her temperature but it was normal.

Apparently she has a full bowel of diarrhoea. The vet gave me some medicine that should help which needs to be administered 1ml 3 times a day. She is being kept inside and starved for 24 hours, then she will have a little chicken or fish 4 times a day until she has solid bowel movements. After that I can start moving her back onto her biscuits.


I'm beating myself up over leaving her

Poor Ziggy I'm sure she will be back to full health soon and it was just bad timing or possibly pre planned timing on her part to guilt you into never leaving her again.

She is happy enough so I think I have been worrying over nothing, although she is restless at having to stay indoors. Can't wait to move so she can be an indoor cat, hate seeing the neighbourhood cats sitting outside my house waiting for her. They're bullies

On the positive side she got a new toy from the store. I always buy her a toy after she gets a shot, it's the guilt

Darcy developed a lump after his first vaccination. It took about 2 weeks to disappear completely - just in time for his second lot. He had no reaction at all to the second set and he is absolutely fine now.

I was wondering about that because she didn't have any reaction at all to the first vaccinations. I'm glad this is normal, I have that stupid habit of googling things and scaring myself.