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Hi folks, (this a long post)
I am brand new here on the forums. Thx for being here and letting us join. Our kitty "Kitty" came to us 3 months ago. She is an angel: she slept in our bed; was always ready to play; ate like a horse; could jump up at least 6 feet; she was crazy athletic; she would like me to scratch her ears until I had to switch arms; she would fall asleep in my or my wife's lap with her head in our hands; she would wait patiently until we got up on the weekends; she slept on my wife's chest in bed with her whiskers touching my wife's face; she would give us love bites. She is a big beautiful Norwegian forest cat. You get it - she is our perfect little friend.
3 weeks ago we had her vaccinated. Coincidence or what we will never know, but since then she has deteriorated rapidly. She stopped eating about a week ago and her stomach has swollen to a very horrible, uncomfortable size. She has retreated to her safe spot in the house. We just got her test results and she has malignant cancer - lympho-sarcoma.
We have choices from the vet. They can do an ultrasound and a needle-aspiration of the tumor and if it is blocking her intestines they will operate and take it out. Then she will be on steroids. Her best prognosis is 3 months. With chemo she has a possibility of living 2-3 years. They do chemo once a week in hazmat suits. Her trip to the vet. was terrifying. She is tough, but hearing her cry out in fear at the vet. is horrible for us, but she is what matters. We are thinking that more vet visits or chemo might be the right choice for others, but we have decided for our Kitty it would be cruel. I don't want to put anyone down for going w/treatment. With different circumstances we would, too.
She is in her nice warm house surrounded by her toys and her favorite music. She is on pain meds and they have made her more comfortable. She is so emaciated now.
While Kitty still has some dignity and the pain meds are still working we will probably go through with euthanasia tomorrow. I would rather burn than make that decision. She can still drink on her own and get to the litter box. She can still walk by and ignore me - like the queen of the house has a right to do. I will bawl like a baby after she moves on - tomorrow we will play and laugh just like old times and make her last moments as pleasant as possible.
Nobody here knows me, but I thank you for reading this in our Kitty's honor. I will be making a website for her and I will come back and post a link to it. I don't know if we will have any more pets. I had doggies and kitties growing up, but this was my wife's first and honest - those 2 bonded like mother and daughter. We only had her 3 months, but she added so much happiness to our lives... Take care folks...
I am brand new here on the forums. Thx for being here and letting us join. Our kitty "Kitty" came to us 3 months ago. She is an angel: she slept in our bed; was always ready to play; ate like a horse; could jump up at least 6 feet; she was crazy athletic; she would like me to scratch her ears until I had to switch arms; she would fall asleep in my or my wife's lap with her head in our hands; she would wait patiently until we got up on the weekends; she slept on my wife's chest in bed with her whiskers touching my wife's face; she would give us love bites. She is a big beautiful Norwegian forest cat. You get it - she is our perfect little friend.
3 weeks ago we had her vaccinated. Coincidence or what we will never know, but since then she has deteriorated rapidly. She stopped eating about a week ago and her stomach has swollen to a very horrible, uncomfortable size. She has retreated to her safe spot in the house. We just got her test results and she has malignant cancer - lympho-sarcoma.
We have choices from the vet. They can do an ultrasound and a needle-aspiration of the tumor and if it is blocking her intestines they will operate and take it out. Then she will be on steroids. Her best prognosis is 3 months. With chemo she has a possibility of living 2-3 years. They do chemo once a week in hazmat suits. Her trip to the vet. was terrifying. She is tough, but hearing her cry out in fear at the vet. is horrible for us, but she is what matters. We are thinking that more vet visits or chemo might be the right choice for others, but we have decided for our Kitty it would be cruel. I don't want to put anyone down for going w/treatment. With different circumstances we would, too.
She is in her nice warm house surrounded by her toys and her favorite music. She is on pain meds and they have made her more comfortable. She is so emaciated now.
While Kitty still has some dignity and the pain meds are still working we will probably go through with euthanasia tomorrow. I would rather burn than make that decision. She can still drink on her own and get to the litter box. She can still walk by and ignore me - like the queen of the house has a right to do. I will bawl like a baby after she moves on - tomorrow we will play and laugh just like old times and make her last moments as pleasant as possible.
Nobody here knows me, but I thank you for reading this in our Kitty's honor. I will be making a website for her and I will come back and post a link to it. I don't know if we will have any more pets. I had doggies and kitties growing up, but this was my wife's first and honest - those 2 bonded like mother and daughter. We only had her 3 months, but she added so much happiness to our lives... Take care folks...
((hugs)) xx
