Cacilie has a disease that affects 2-5% of cats. It's a disease that her sister, Mindy (my forever cat), succumbed to in December (Happy Chanukah to us 
), and it's one that's compromised her immune system and led her to all these other crazy secondary infections. She's not even 2 years old, and she's lost vision in one eye and had to have 3 blood transfusions for different things. We now have her on subcutaneous fluids that we give to her (our house is looking like a veterinary hospital nowadays) and she's quarantined from our other 2 cats, as the disease is contagious.
We found out two days ago that she has kidney cancer as well now. Her kidneys are the size of my fists (she's a 7lb cat, a little thing), and she's lost tons of weight.
She stopped eating yesterday, after doing so well on fluids, and has been throwing up anything we manage to get her to eat. We're taking her in tomorrow for another check-up, but we've resigned ourselves to the fact that she won't be with us much longer. We knew this day was coming, but with all the joy in our lives, with us reaching 9mos with this babe and qualifying today for our birth center birth, we're not at a point where we feel like we can really deal emotionally with the trauma of losing another of our loved ones.
She's just a little furry heartbreak waiting to happen, and I hope she lasts long enough to meet our baby. We thought she was going to be with us for at least 10 years, if not 20, and we're only getting about 2 with her.
If you pray for animals, could you pray for her? She's made amazing recoveries before and we just gave her more fluids, so we're hoping she'll fight off whatever infection she has now and feel better.
), and it's one that's compromised her immune system and led her to all these other crazy secondary infections. She's not even 2 years old, and she's lost vision in one eye and had to have 3 blood transfusions for different things. We now have her on subcutaneous fluids that we give to her (our house is looking like a veterinary hospital nowadays) and she's quarantined from our other 2 cats, as the disease is contagious.We found out two days ago that she has kidney cancer as well now. Her kidneys are the size of my fists (she's a 7lb cat, a little thing), and she's lost tons of weight.
She stopped eating yesterday, after doing so well on fluids, and has been throwing up anything we manage to get her to eat. We're taking her in tomorrow for another check-up, but we've resigned ourselves to the fact that she won't be with us much longer. We knew this day was coming, but with all the joy in our lives, with us reaching 9mos with this babe and qualifying today for our birth center birth, we're not at a point where we feel like we can really deal emotionally with the trauma of losing another of our loved ones.
She's just a little furry heartbreak waiting to happen, and I hope she lasts long enough to meet our baby. We thought she was going to be with us for at least 10 years, if not 20, and we're only getting about 2 with her.
If you pray for animals, could you pray for her? She's made amazing recoveries before and we just gave her more fluids, so we're hoping she'll fight off whatever infection she has now and feel better.
and prayers for all of you.
