Thelma and Calistica
Member Since 2011
Dear friends, Calistica was helped to cross the rainbow bridge at about 4:05 this afternoon. Our hearts are heavy with sorrow. It was time to free her from her sick body. We knew she didn't want to fight this battle.
She became sick around mid-October. An ultrasound revealed an "angry" pancreas which could be pancreatitis or panreatic cancer. We hoped for the best and wanted to believe it was pancreatitis. Also then she was diagnoses with diabetes. She was doing great with her insulin treatment and was a model patient. She loved getting ears pricked so she could get a treat. Last week though she wasn't feeling good. She wasn't eating well and that wasn't a good sign for this cat that loved her food so much. We took her to the ER on Saturday afternoon. She was admitted as her kidney values were high. She was put on fluids. We visited her yesterday and she perked up for us. I asked her to purr for me so I could hear and she did.
Today another abdominal ultrasound was performed and the findings were drastically different than the ones from 10/13/11. There was a mass in her pancreas and nodules in her abdominal cavity and the lining of her intestines. Her kidney values were elevated and fluids didn't improve them.
Ray and I spoke and we felt that the right thing to do for our little girl was to let her go before she suffered too much. Some of you advised me to talk with Calistica. When we got to the hospital she was brought to us in an examining room and all you had to do was look at her little face to know it was time. She just didn't want to fight anymore.
Ray told me that she told him yesterday that it was time. He didn't tell me that until this afternoon when we had a conference call with my friend the animal communicator.
Calistica told her it was time to let her go. She didn't want any of this anymore. She wanted us to celebrate her life with pictures of fun times. She said if a picture doesn't make you laugh then don't use it for my memorial.
She was on Ray's lap with her little forehead pressed against Ray's arm. His lap was her favorite napping spot. When she took her last breath our vet left us alone with our little girl. We cried and then celebrated her life by remembering the funny things she used to do. I always said she was the family clown.
When I first met Ray Calistica claimed him for herself. He was hers. She was daddy's little girl. She loved for him to play with her. She like her hats and butter too. She knew where Ray kept the butter up on the counter and she would get up there looking for it! she used to have a wand toy that she loved chasing around in circles. Sometimes she'd play by herself and the string would get wrapped around her body. She'd then walk around the house with the string wrapped around her body and the stick trailing behind her! That was really funny!
Ray and I want to thank you for all your support, advice and prayers,
Thelma, Ray and Angel Calistica
She became sick around mid-October. An ultrasound revealed an "angry" pancreas which could be pancreatitis or panreatic cancer. We hoped for the best and wanted to believe it was pancreatitis. Also then she was diagnoses with diabetes. She was doing great with her insulin treatment and was a model patient. She loved getting ears pricked so she could get a treat. Last week though she wasn't feeling good. She wasn't eating well and that wasn't a good sign for this cat that loved her food so much. We took her to the ER on Saturday afternoon. She was admitted as her kidney values were high. She was put on fluids. We visited her yesterday and she perked up for us. I asked her to purr for me so I could hear and she did.
Today another abdominal ultrasound was performed and the findings were drastically different than the ones from 10/13/11. There was a mass in her pancreas and nodules in her abdominal cavity and the lining of her intestines. Her kidney values were elevated and fluids didn't improve them.
Ray and I spoke and we felt that the right thing to do for our little girl was to let her go before she suffered too much. Some of you advised me to talk with Calistica. When we got to the hospital she was brought to us in an examining room and all you had to do was look at her little face to know it was time. She just didn't want to fight anymore.
Ray told me that she told him yesterday that it was time. He didn't tell me that until this afternoon when we had a conference call with my friend the animal communicator.
Calistica told her it was time to let her go. She didn't want any of this anymore. She wanted us to celebrate her life with pictures of fun times. She said if a picture doesn't make you laugh then don't use it for my memorial.
She was on Ray's lap with her little forehead pressed against Ray's arm. His lap was her favorite napping spot. When she took her last breath our vet left us alone with our little girl. We cried and then celebrated her life by remembering the funny things she used to do. I always said she was the family clown.
When I first met Ray Calistica claimed him for herself. He was hers. She was daddy's little girl. She loved for him to play with her. She like her hats and butter too. She knew where Ray kept the butter up on the counter and she would get up there looking for it! she used to have a wand toy that she loved chasing around in circles. Sometimes she'd play by herself and the string would get wrapped around her body. She'd then walk around the house with the string wrapped around her body and the stick trailing behind her! That was really funny!
Ray and I want to thank you for all your support, advice and prayers,
Thelma, Ray and Angel Calistica
