Please help, critically sick cat

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Sara and Buttercup

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severe anemia, heart problem, mass in stomach. too exhausted to write more. me and her going under fast. need someone to talk to. please, i have been here on this a long time. know there are some nice people here who get this. is jean still here? too much stress. don't konw where to turn. she's 18, no diagnosis yet for what is causing anemia. supposed to get transfusion, no money, unsure of what to do and then more tests. so tired. don't kow if i can keep fighting.. she's fighting. don't want to let her down. love her.

by the way, her kitten buttercup, the diabetic, died on christmans of last year. not of diabetes but of large cell lymphoma. what a cat she was. now her mom is super super sick, like nearing death. local vets are so bad here they aren't worth going to. malpractice. need to drive 3 hours to get transufuion because i went all the way over there a couple of days ago and they didn't have blood and they told me to come back.. malpractice. don't know if i have strentgh to make trip again.. don't wnat to let her down. fighting poor vet care. exhausted. looking for support. thank you.
 
Hi, Sara. I am so sorry you are having such a hard time. I haven't been on the board very long and am a relative newbie but I am here.
 
thank you for writing. makes me feel better just to know that you are there. i have to go to bed now. super tired. thanks again. i'll check in again tomorrow.
 
I know you love her. I know you're not ready for her to go.

She may be leaving you anyway - a stomach mass and anemia in an 18 year old cat suggests cancer to me.

So I will ask you these hardest of questions. How do you want her to spend her remaining time with you before she crosses the Rainbow Bridge? And are you willing to help her across so her passing is peaceful?
 
I am saddened by Buttercup's moms condition. From your description she seems to lead a long productive life and maybe she just want to be with Buttercup. Sending purrs and prayers
 
(((Sara)))

This sound like an incredibly difficult time for you. Get some rest so you can think clearly. Have a talk with your kitty. Look in her eyes and see what she is telling you. She may need to know that you love her (I'm sure she already knows this) and it's OK for her to take a walk to the Bridge. Or, if she wants to keep fighting, that you'll be there to lend her strength. Listen to your kitty.
 
Im keeping you in my thoughts and prayers. I know how hard it is when you have a sick baby!! There is a lot of support here on the board and someone for you to talk to. Im also very very sad to tell you that Jean just recently passed away. You can go over to "Greif" and read about her service. It was very beautiful. She had fought the fine fight and was laid to rest with her husband. She was a wonderful person who touched many lives and will be sorely missed. I know this is the last thing that you needed to hear right now. No matter what happens please dont give up! Your baby needs you so much!!! We are here for you!
Terri & Chicken Little
 
Hello Sara, what is your kitties name?

Did you get some sleep last night or did you stay up worrying? Sending you hugs and healing vines for your very sick kitty.
 
thank you everybody. i really appeciate the support. my kitty has been hospitalized for the last three days. she not doing great but maintaining. she's too critical to go home but they are charging me $1000 a day just to be on an iv and get a few blood test and bp checks. i can't afford to leave her longer even though she would benefit probably from a couple more days on the iv since her sodium is so high. i fear when i bring her home she is going to crash and die. i am scared to bring her home because i don't know how to handle it. please don't write me anything about euthanasia right now, i can't handle it.

I am really sad to hear about Jean. she seemed like such a wonderful person. she understood my situation and all the pain i have had with losing so many cats. she wrote me long emails to try to make me feel better and they did, she gave me her phone number and said i could call. very rare person who cares like that. very sad to hear of her passing.

thank you to everybody who wrote for your support. this is the one place i know i can go where somebody gets it and cares.
 
Prayers for your kitty and for you. I hope your kitty is responding to treatment and can come home soon. My cat, Mousey Tongue, had heart problems also. They are so hard to treat but if your kitty is a fighter still, I hope the treatment enables your baby to come home to be with you. Cherish these days with your kitty and spend as much time as you can with the kitty while in the hospital. Your kitty needs to know you are fighting right alongside, too. Know that you are doing everything you can.

Jean is surely one of heaven's angels, looking over you and your kitty. I attended her funeral and talked to her in hospice in her last days. At the funeral, a fawn ran in front of us through the trees at the veteran's cemetery. Those of us who saw the fawn felt like Jean was sending us a sign that all was well with her now. It is very sad that she left us, but her last days were filled with love and quality time with her family. They gave her a wonderful celebration of her life and gracious farewell. I am sorry she is no longer here to help you. She loved her FDMB friends and their kitties so much.

Keep us posted. I hope your kitty is back home with you and on the road to recovery very soon.

((HUGS))

Maggie and Mousey Tongue (GA)
 
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