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From Rick Owens – PEN<\/em><\/p>\n 9\/13\/20 – I’m certain many of you may have been wondering what the heck happened to PEN’s daily news\u00a0 this past Friday and Saturday – well, I’m blaming it on our cat…we call her Mama Cat.<\/p>\n To make a LONG story short – she lovingly bit me on my hand last Tuesday and this bite sent me to the emergency room and resulted in a 3 day stay with antibiotics being administered by IV and orally.<\/p>\n She bit me on my right hand and just one tooth went deep inside the tissue. At first I did not think much of it, but I soon found out that this was no ordinary bite. By Wednesday morning my hand had swollen up like a balloon and was very painful. I could not sleep at all Wednesday night due to the pain being so excruciating. I had went to my doctor Wednesday morning and he prescribed azithromycin. I found out later that this was the wrong antibiotic for a cat bite.<\/p>\n I went back to my doctor on Thursday and he recommended I go to the ER because the hand had swollen so much ,was real red, and the pain was way above a level 10. The ER doctor told me that he was admitting me because this bite could be extremely dangerous due to the infection spreading.<\/p>\n Well, I was hooked up to IV and administered 2 antibiotics – I also was given a third antibiotic by mouth. I could not do anything with my right hand and still can’t make a fist without terrible pain.<\/p>\n I finally was able to talk the hospital doctor into letting me go home late yesterday and take the antibiotics at home.<\/p>\n This bite has taught me a few things; (1.) Cat bites and cat scratches are too different animals and are treated differently, and (2.) a bite from just a common house cat could possibly kill or debilitate you. A cat bite is extremely infectious and can be very painful.<\/p>\n So, if you deliver mail and get bit then get immediate treatment for the bite. Even if you get bit by your own pet you must get immediate treatment.<\/p>\n Stay safe everyone,<\/p>\n Rick Owens – PEN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Rick Owens – PEN 9\/13\/20 – I’m certain many of you may have been wondering what the heck happened to PEN’s daily news\u00a0 this past Friday and Saturday – well, I’m blaming it on our cat…we call her Mama Cat. To make a LONG story short – she lovingly bit me on my hand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29254,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29252\/revisions\/29254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}