Beware: getting a scratch from a cat can be very bad news. Via Shepton Mallet Journal .
If you ever have to give a cat a bath, be careful: it could land you in hospital.
Lesley Pleasant, from Shepton Mallet in Somerset, spent SIX DAYS in hospital after giving a bath to Oscar, her daughter's 10-month-old Persian cat (like the one above).
She tells the Shepton Mallet Journal that the the cat didn't take too kindly to being cleaned and "flew up my arm, and my daughter had to ease his claws out of my skin."
And from then on, things only got worse.
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About 5am, I used my mobile phone to call my daughter, who sleeps in the room next to me. I said I wasn't feeling well and asked if she'd bring me a cup of tea and some paracetamol.
My arm had swollen up and looked like one of those long, sausage balloons you get ...
Once the paracetamol started to work, I felt well enough to drive myself to hospital - except that the hospital was closed. So I had to go back home and wait a few more hours for it to open
I threw up in the car all the way there. When I arrived in A&E, they whisked me through straight away, got me into a bed and put me on a drip
"Whenever anyone came to visit me, I asked them to scratch me," she tells the Journal.
Lesley is back to full health now, says she thanks the staff at the hospital and admits she should have got treatment after being scratched. She has also forgiven Oscar the cat.
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