We are back from the vet, and HH is still a bit woozy after the sedative, but she had a diagnose ("blood ear") and treatment and it seems to me that she is no longer in pain. (Imagine if you were a cat and had ~½ dl fluid inside your ear lobe...)
Vet punctured her ear lobe (stuff that came out didn't smell like flowers), injected some cortisone and gave ear drops I have to put in HH's ear next ten days. (It was not cheap trip, but it was about half of the price I would have paid in Helsinki University animal hospital (that place is for teaching, city vet (whom I used) is fully qualified professional... Do we see some oddity in pricing here?).)
HH will be floppy-eared for the rest of her life and her ear will dry and become wrinkly, but it doesn't make any difference - she is her lovely annoying self nevertheless.
This condition may also recur, but in that case it is possible to ask an operation for the ear to prevent this happening after few punctures.
Anyway, old lady is happy now. ^^
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