Deedlet said:Last night I noticed that the cat was in pain and was licking her tail a lot. She re-opened it and it was bleeding for a little bit. I tried cleaning it, but she would barely let me near her. So I gave her some pain killers which calmed her down- and I was able to clean her wound. We took her to the vet this morning, and he said she's doing ok, and gave us a cone for her. I asked him if he should wrap up the wound with a gauze or something, and he said the wound should remain open, because air helps it heal faster and to continue giving her the medicine on time to stop the wound from getting an infection which could lead to an abscess. He also said that since the tail wasn't broken, he doesn't see a reason why the cat shouldn't make a full recovery, but there are times that the nerves are too damaged to fully recover and that her tail may stay bent forever, even though it's actually healed... This made me quite upset but at least it's better than having to amputate her tail due to it being broken.
A while back, my cat (the little guy who used to be my avatar) got some sort of fungus on the end of his tail, all the hair fell out by the tip. The vet wanted to give him some anti-fungal medicine to take internally, but thought it would make him sicker, as his overall health is kinda delicate. So I started spraying colloidal silver on his tail instead. It healed up perfectly and all the hair grew back.
I don't know that it would do anything for nerve damage, but maybe to put on the wound?