hello all---
this goes back to my original post on this---regarding the diagnosis of ear mites in my cat.
i just returned from a follow-up visit. the vet found one egg. she took quite awhile at the microscope and apologized upon return--explaining that they are trained to look at the mite itself, not eggs, but that this was clearly an egg, yet one she had not before encountered.
she's pretty fresh outta vet school---2-3 years--but she showed it to the lead vet and he had never seen it before either.
they offered to send it on to some lab--but we're gonna wait and try another month of medicine, before doing this. she emphasized that the tech she would send it to was not a parasitologist (sp?) but that they look at a lot of slides.
meanwhile--i'm going nuts with crawling and itching--it's the worst since i first contracted this, several months ago.
it's been raining tons here in california for a few weeks now---i'm wondering if the humidity is making it worse.
kelley