Defeated and wounded

Hikaru has been ill for several days. One day, he suddenly became inactive and feverish. My wife has taken him to a vet doctor nearby. Nothing wrong found except for fever. In a day, he has developed a mass, a soft tissue mass, apparently an abscess on a submandibular area as described like a chart. Even inspecting his neck more precisely, he has had a wound, pretty big, next to the mass. 

We have concluded he was fighting somewhere outdoor with a certain invader, possibly, the big black cat often seen in the garden, and was wounded badly by him/her in a fight. It has caused a big abscess. Even, septic. He was rushed to another vet who cared for him nicely. He was given a slowly effective antibiotic intramuscularly. In a day or two, the mass has started shrinking and became drained the pus through a spontaneous fistula.

Yesterday, he has asked me to let go out at the kitchen door. Hesitatingly, I opened the door and he went out a step or two. Then, he came back inside. What a pitty! He always loved walking around the property vigilantly against any invader. But he has learned that there had been even stronger invaders who could defeat him. Even if he had been praised for his well-muscled body by a nurse of the end vet clinic.

Two things good for him might be being served with the good meal. And we have a bit of medical knowledge for him even if I have been far away from the clinical practice for years and my wife has been only a shrink head doc.

Hopefully, when he is fully recovered, he might enjoy going out for a short time.