How about cat scratch fever?  Its often overlooked, but is a real entity.  My 
son got it shortly after getting scratched by a new kitty we adopted.  I had 
totally forgotten about it as a possibility when it happened.  My mother had a 
friend whose son had died many years before when I was a child.  Rocephin 
seems like a good thing.  Ask if her kitty is an outside cat.  If its a cat who 
is in all winter and suddenly rediscovers outside in the spring he might be 
clawing into bark or digging for personal reasons.
Leanne Jewell RNC, IBCLC, LCCE, FACCE
SFl

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