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Aug 31 • 7 tweets • 2 min read

So a question for all of you who definitely aren't my doctor:

When I pulled local bruiser kitty off Napoleon 3 weeks ago, he sunk his teeth deep into my arm.

Instantly my thumb went tingly. It's still functional, but always sore and a bit numb now. I assume that's permanent?

This is the bite location. It's mostly healed now and there was no obvious infection.

I've basically been assuming bruiser kitty got lucky and severed a nerve or something.

My thumb movement ISN'T inhibited, but it's just always a bit numb now and painful if I proper stretch it

I should add I got bitten in a bunch of places. So if it was infection I'd have assumed a more obvious reaction in healing, there or elsewhere.

And it CERTAINLY wouldn't have been an instant effect I think. Which it was.

Y'all need to calm down. Shit happened three weeks ago I'd be dead by now if kitty bacteria were going to murder me not boozing in Stockholm.

And infections don't have an instant effect. Which this did. 😆

Like, trust me. If I was going to die of an infected cat bite it would have been two weeks ago or something given the little fucker bit me in six separate places.

Those of you judging me for not yeeting myself immediately to A&E 1) have never been to Whipps Cross A&E 2) need to understand it was about 2hrs before Orient's first game of the season.

#priorities

Also anyone who goes to A&E just because a cat bit then has clearly never had a cat.

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This one has bonus doggos!

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And one of those things is CLEARLY commissioning art of women with their tits out.

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