A Broken Heart For Christmas, I lost my dear cat just before dawn Options

[lynda]

My baby would have been 17 years old this spring. He was always so healthy and looked so good...I couldn't have known that this was going to happen.

Last month he began to lose some weight and was eating poorly, but after a vet check he seemed to be doing better with antibiotics for a bladder or kidney infection and some medication to help an overactive thyroid. Then late Christmas Eve he seemed to take a turn for the worse. For the sake of the sensitive and loving people who are reading I will not say how I could tell this...it was bad.

We rushed to the Emergency Clinic, where they placed him on IV fluids and began checking for whatever could be wrong. At 4:30 am the doctor called and said that on the ultrasounds and radiographs she had found cancer all spread through his lungs and upper body. They could keep doing more, but I had to say no, just please leave his IV in place because that would save him from having to have another needle. So about 5:00 am, I stayed with him, with his head cupped in my hand, and the vet slipped the euthanasia drug into the IV port. I told him I loved him so much, and that he was going to a place where there was no hurt, ever, and not to worry, I would see him again someday. I spoke the names of his loved ones who had passed away before him and promised him that he would see them.

Right now I wish that I could have gone with him. But better I hurt than my baby who deserved no hurt in all this world.

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[Moose Mom]

Oh lynda

Your baby was so handsome! What eyes he had. I'm so very sorry for your loss.

I well know the just wanting to follow them, it would be so much eaiser for us. Take comfort from knowing he knew you were with him and he was listening to you tell him where he was going. It's good that there are others there to meet him. You were so lucky to have him 17 years.

Try to think of all the good memories you have of him, not the bad stuff that happened. It's hard I know but the good so outweighed the bad.

We lost our Moustache kitty 2 months ago. He was only 10. It's so hard to lose them. I felt your love for your baby in every line of your post.

Thinking of you
Lori