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Topic: How long do you keep trying to help your sick pet (Read 766 times)
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aliceshoe
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I just had my beautiful cat,, Porsha, age 10- and one half euthanized yesterday at l:30 p.m.. Sat. l3 June. She b ecame ill on Aprill 29 and since then spent a week in the emergency hospital and had tests. Then I took her home for 10 days of tLC. She always kept purring through all the times I visited her or had her at home. She was given daily pills and everything to help her that I could think of. But, she would not eat. At all. Back to the local cat vet and more forced feedings. Then was came back here for a last week, had the run of the house (no more confinement!) and still she lost a lot of weight. Finally I called a new vet who was so kind. She carefully explained that Porsha had more than liver problems, but 4 others, which interacted with each other, and the one "cure" I was praying for did not work and even if it eventually did after more feedings, there were other problems which I had not really counted on.
She lay on my chest in the big living room, was given sleeping medicine slowly rested on my -- still purring - and then was given a final but not painful injection which immediatel stopped her heart. She was always a very sweet cat and I miss her terribly. I feel time was right - the answer always seemed just around the corner! Wrong.
I will make memorial cards for her tomorrow to send to the kind people who helped with pills, rides to the vet and mora l support. I don't feel I could feel worse right now. After 10 years you miss thelittle things of your daily routines - don't you think?
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Deesker
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Alice,
Please know how sorry I am for your loss. It is never easy to make the decision to end your pet's life. It sounds like you did everything you could to keep her alive and to finally make that decision shows how much you really loved her. None of us wants our pets to suffer in any way but the idea of losing them becomes overwhelming and sometimes skews our own logical thinking. That's ok too. When emotions become involved and we are so close to the situation, it's sometimes hard to determine what is the right thing to do.
I can tell how much you loved Porsha. Please know we have all faced pet loss and we understand how difficult it is to be without them. There is no easy cure for grief. You just have to get through it and eventually, in time, you will be able to move past the pain of losing your Porsha.
I am very sorry for your loss. Please continue to post and let us know how you're doing.
With Sympathy,
Dee
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