10/24/2026
Well. Little miss tiny Maggie Maggots sure has given me a little gift that I will never forget!
If you’ve been following, I rescued this poor girl from a horrible situation with a ruptured eye filled with maggots! I immediately reached out to Gabby at Alley Cats Rescue and we teamed up to help this girly out. During her intake assessment with both of us we gave this poor severely dehydrated and malnourished baby some kitten food and she lost all sense of control and was eating and protecting that food with her life! And with a little touch, of course she decided to chomp down on my fingers! She even gave Gabby a good bite as well! Keep in mind this precious girl is an absolute love bug but after being without food for so long she just got nippy!
Cat bites are most definitely nothing new to me so we washed and disinfected our hands and continued on as usual.
The next morning I woke with my arm feeling achy and the lymph node in my armpit extremely sore and swollen. So I guess the bite got infected and it spread up my arm quick and fast. It started getting so painful I couldn’t lift or move my arm. Throughout the day my entire body started hurting like I had the flu and was running 101 ish fever. Entire body shaking with chills and I started getting a “rash” up that arm from the infection.
So first thing I tried a phone doc to just ask for antibiotics but they wouldn’t help me and said I had to be seen somewhere in person. So during lunch I went to my primary doc and he said he couldn’t help me because of protocols with reporting to animal control. So I was just gonna try to wait it out for a bit. But by about 6pm everything got so much worse so called around and Signature Care by Dairy Queen is apparently the only place in the area not affiliated with the city and their own operation so they don’t report animal bites. Could you imagine this poor hungry baby being put down just because she was hungry!?!?
So I headed there and by the time I got there I was literally bawling because of the pain and chills. They shot me up with a huge dose of antibiotics and prescribed more antibiotics and pain meds. I’m definitely starting to feel better already but still hurting for sure. This one has been a wild ride. 🤣
Also special thanks to my high school friend Symela Ruelas for caring for me in urgent care!
Insane how a tiny little baby bite could cause such a reaction! Gabby and I joked that Maggie rubbed all her bacteria off her teeth onto me since she bit me first and that’s why Gabby didn’t have any infection or issues with her bite.
But I will never hold it against little Maggie Maggots. Precious baby was just hungry.
On a happier note, thanks to Fix West Texas, Gabby and I were able to get her in for immediate emergency surgery and she is recovering wonderfully! I can’t wait to share more of Maggie’s progress!
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