boscibo
06-27-2009, 07:18 PM
I have't posted here in a long time, I'm sorry. I don't know if anyone remembers me & my cats...
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that my girl Abby (http://catoftheday.com/archive/2001/July/28.html), who was Cat of the Day on July 28th, 2001, passed away last Tuesday night. She joins my other cat Bo, who crossed the Rainbow Bridge 07/17/2007.
Abby had been having kidney problems and was quite sick. I had made multiple vet visits, and despite my giving sub-q's and syringe feeding her, she wasn't getting better or eating on her own. A tumor was suspected. She had just undergone an ultrasound & biopsy and the vet had been hopeful that it was an infection as opposed to cancer. I was going to take her home for the night and return in the AM for antibiotic treatments and so forth. She passed away in the car on the ride home. I don't know what happened - her death has left us stunned, hurt, upset and very confused.
Abby was only 14. I know she was ill, and I had prepared for the worst. This ultrasound involved the 5th vet to look at her and I was prepared to let her go if the prognosis was dire. We had been in such a good mood on the drive home (my SO and I) because of the hope given to us by the ultrasound & biopsy that her condition was possibly treatable, and then to pull her lifeless body from the cat carrier was heartbreaking. :(
I will never forget you Abby; you were one of a kind and will be greatly missed.
Thanks for listening.
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that my girl Abby (http://catoftheday.com/archive/2001/July/28.html), who was Cat of the Day on July 28th, 2001, passed away last Tuesday night. She joins my other cat Bo, who crossed the Rainbow Bridge 07/17/2007.
Abby had been having kidney problems and was quite sick. I had made multiple vet visits, and despite my giving sub-q's and syringe feeding her, she wasn't getting better or eating on her own. A tumor was suspected. She had just undergone an ultrasound & biopsy and the vet had been hopeful that it was an infection as opposed to cancer. I was going to take her home for the night and return in the AM for antibiotic treatments and so forth. She passed away in the car on the ride home. I don't know what happened - her death has left us stunned, hurt, upset and very confused.
Abby was only 14. I know she was ill, and I had prepared for the worst. This ultrasound involved the 5th vet to look at her and I was prepared to let her go if the prognosis was dire. We had been in such a good mood on the drive home (my SO and I) because of the hope given to us by the ultrasound & biopsy that her condition was possibly treatable, and then to pull her lifeless body from the cat carrier was heartbreaking. :(
I will never forget you Abby; you were one of a kind and will be greatly missed.
Thanks for listening.