Panicked Cat, Smoking Teflon Pan, and Eggs

This morning I was so happy to have gotten to the kitchen before 8:30am for breakfast. It was the promise of a beautiful, less stress-filled day. Then, it happened. While I was whipping the eggs to make scrambled eggs, I had started to heat a little sesame oil in our small frying pan and was ready to pour the eggs into the pan when I heard it. That low guttural howl my cat makes when she has a panic attack. (You cat lovers will totally understand. My cat will have a sort of panic attack before earthquakes or if there is loud construction work going on near our home.) I turned my head to see my cat slip and fall off of our three-tiered shelf. It looked like she hit her foot slightly before landing upright on the top of her kennel cab. She didn't quite have a perfect landing though and slid off the kennel onto the floor howling the whole time. She then preceded to dash around our living/dining/kitchen room with tail fluffed full finally coming to a stop completely out of breath. She will be 15 years old this summer. So, quite the big deal for my grandma aged little kitty. Then, my son yells, "Mommy, smoke." I smelled it at those words and turned to see smoke coming off the frying pan. I told my son to go to his room. He has asthma and I didn't want to take any chances. I turned off the stove, soaked up the oil with a paper towel, and poured water over the pan. The smell was terrible. I have a bloodhounds nose, and once I get a smell in my nose it takes forever to get rid of it. Of course the panicked cat running and the realization of smoke coming off the frying pan all happened very quickly within less than two minutes of time I'd guess. I put my kitty in her kennel and opened all the windows and balcony doors off that room. I had my son stay in his room for about ten minutes while I aired out the room. I washed the pan. So, as a result I used the egg I had whipped to make egg soup instead of scrambled eggs. I didn't want to deal with that frying pan at the moment and was really hungry and just wanted to get breakfast done as soon as possible. The pan doesn't have any scratch marks on it and doesn't look burnt at all. We left our kitty in the kennel while we ate our breakfast since I wanted to let the room really air out. I had the fan above the stove on and brought in a floor fan to pull air out the balcony doors. I had the whole cross ventilation thing going for about an hour. I let our cat out of her kennel as soon as I finished eating and could stay with her to prevent her opening our screens just in case she tried. When I let her out, she was walking a little funny. Cats have amazing ability to endure pain. She let me touch her leg without much of a fuss, but she was walking oddly. She had a second little panic attack after my son finished eating while I cleaned the table. I managed to get her calmed down, and she is resting in her bed right now. So unto my questions: 1: Would you use that frying pan again? It had a such a terrible smell when the smoke was coming off it. But after washing it, there are no scratch marks on it. I didn't have to scrub to get it clean. Basically, it was just that small amount of oil that had been in the pan. There are no discolored marks on the pan. Do you think it is safe to use it again? We only use it really for eggs. This is the first time, in the three years that I have had it, for me to have had an accident burning something in it. 2: Would you take the cat to see the vet? She seems ok now. She was walking around a little and is taking a bath in her bed now. She seems to be walking normally, but moving a bit slower than usual. She doesn't appear to have any cuts or scrapes anywhere. She lets me pet her. Yet, she is getting up there in her age, and she was walking funny right after she fell. It just started to get warmer here. Whenever the season changes she occasionally will throw up her food after guzzling water or will have a hair ball. I know that cats sometimes throw up after a fall. So I will be closely watching her today. Feeling a little worried about my sweet little kitty. 3: The egg soup I made was pretty good. I usually scramble eggs for breakfast. We will eat omelettes, oyakodon, and eggsalad sandwiches sometimes for lunch or dinner. So how do you usually eat your eggs at breakfast? I found my silver lining in this accident. I might get some good breakfast ideas.