Gingerly is right! She's as crabby as a Singapore restaurant's menu! But she is having a wonderful time walking about and rubbing things: "Mine! Mine!"

The vet said that he thought it "Could well be" a thyroid tumour and that "It may then" respond to iodine, though apparently that treatment is immensely more successful in benign tumours than carcinomas. But she really is due a spot of luck.

Thanks for the pats, she purred.