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Kessie update
Well, we continue to try and do the right things (completed a 2 week long transition to 100% Science Diet wet food) and Miss Kessie continues to deposit pea soup or pudding most times. However, twice in the past week she did make near normal deposits with a smaller lag than previously, second was yesterday.
She's only had one day where she was listless, which was last Friday.
She doesn't hide, is social, grooms, has a good appetite, coat, nose and eyes look good...uses the box okay, except for a couple of pee puddles on the front door mat.
We have been giving her slippery elm for a week, plus the old fashioned Kaopectate, by baby syringe. Prednisone therapy continues. I do mix a little Metamucil and organic pro-biotic powder in her wet food twice a day.
She continues to be real skinny, holding at about 8 1/2#.
Kessie doesn't seem to be in pain, and we hope we ARE doing this for her and not just to avoid a hard, humane decision. We should hear tomorrow from the vet if he's evaluated the new blood test yet.
We refinanced the house and will have more of a cushion...looking at taking her to the UW Veterinary School for the endoscopy and exam.
Poor kitty, I can think of 100 bad people that deserve this, but not her.
She's only had one day where she was listless, which was last Friday.
She doesn't hide, is social, grooms, has a good appetite, coat, nose and eyes look good...uses the box okay, except for a couple of pee puddles on the front door mat.
We have been giving her slippery elm for a week, plus the old fashioned Kaopectate, by baby syringe. Prednisone therapy continues. I do mix a little Metamucil and organic pro-biotic powder in her wet food twice a day.
She continues to be real skinny, holding at about 8 1/2#.
Kessie doesn't seem to be in pain, and we hope we ARE doing this for her and not just to avoid a hard, humane decision. We should hear tomorrow from the vet if he's evaluated the new blood test yet.
We refinanced the house and will have more of a cushion...looking at taking her to the UW Veterinary School for the endoscopy and exam.
Poor kitty, I can think of 100 bad people that deserve this, but not her.
I am new on this site, and very sorry to read what you, your family and Kessie went and are going through. Enjoy every minutes that you have with Kessie. Let Kessie have everything she wants. That's what I did with my cats. It does not make it easier when the time comes, but Kessie will enjoy it as much as you will.
I know it's hard, I am maybe not that old, but I sure have lost my fair share of cats. Deciding when to let go is so hard. I can tell just how much you love your cats.
You love Kessie and I know that she loves you back. I have always believed that they know when their time is up. Maybe she is telling you that she loves the home she has so much right now, that she doesn't want to move away with you.
Pip I have seen your heart and the love that you have for kitties and it never ceases to amaze me. Stardust and I will be thinking of all of you.
You love Kessie and I know that she loves you back. I have always believed that they know when their time is up. Maybe she is telling you that she loves the home she has so much right now, that she doesn't want to move away with you.
Pip I have seen your heart and the love that you have for kitties and it never ceases to amaze me. Stardust and I will be thinking of all of you.
Pip, we join you in spirit.
Know that Kessie is not in pain...has you and Anita with her every minute during the last days of her earthly journey.
You have courage, Pip. Kessie could not have chosen a more loving human. As Opus reminds us...this is the price we pay...the vigil and making the decision to let her spirit go. Hard. You have a vet who knows you and Anita and your kits. Nothing I can say will make this easy. Just know I send you all strong love ...
Know that Kessie is not in pain...has you and Anita with her every minute during the last days of her earthly journey.
You have courage, Pip. Kessie could not have chosen a more loving human. As Opus reminds us...this is the price we pay...the vigil and making the decision to let her spirit go. Hard. You have a vet who knows you and Anita and your kits. Nothing I can say will make this easy. Just know I send you all strong love ...
your pain just reaches out across the miles and grabs at us all Pip...words at this time are just meaningless attempts at making a very painful time more endurable.
by saying I can identify means little, but I can. I worked most of my life in palliative care...saw more deaths than I can count. some peaceful and a blessing, some just darn right heartbreaking especially when its a youngster taken much before their time. I did become hardened, I had too or I couldn't have continued in my chosen profession.....but there were times that left huge marks on my heart, that I'll never forget.
Saying all that....I think you're alot like me, saw alot of death but none so heartbreaking as when we loose those that are close to us personally....and that most definitely includes my very dear beloved pets and yours too my friend.
I could write a book on my forever buddy OPUS, he was the best. he was taken much too soon as the case with Kessie. and Pip what made it even harder was the same fact that I had to make the call.....it perhaps in rights should have been made even sooner, but I couldn't. that I grieve for too. to be the one playing God and saying 'its enough' is perhaps the hardest thing I've ever had to do.....
I had the Vet come to our home that last morning, he sat with us for awhile until he felt I was ready....than he quietly slipped out the door, leaving my Opus with me for the rest of the day until I could gain the courage to bring him in for cremation. still I had to call the clinic one last time that night before it closed, to have him just go and check the box...just to 'be sure'...he wasn't just laying there alone and sleeping...I knew he wasn't for he was unmistakeably gone before I took him in, but I just HAD TO BE reassured one last time.
I went thru a very bad time after this for awhile, I still had 3 more kitties at home that I love completely...but Opus was forever gone.
Its not something we ever want to do, but we have too, its the price of having their love and companionship...they do count on us to be ready to also do for them what they can't do for themselves.
your not killing her, your putting her at peace because you love her, she knows that b/c you've shown her that love everyday of her little life....she'll no longer suffer but you will for quite awhile.....
my heart goes out to you, I think making the decision is the hardest part...than the grief before the healing.
God bless my friend, you all have my prayersâ„
by saying I can identify means little, but I can. I worked most of my life in palliative care...saw more deaths than I can count. some peaceful and a blessing, some just darn right heartbreaking especially when its a youngster taken much before their time. I did become hardened, I had too or I couldn't have continued in my chosen profession.....but there were times that left huge marks on my heart, that I'll never forget.
Saying all that....I think you're alot like me, saw alot of death but none so heartbreaking as when we loose those that are close to us personally....and that most definitely includes my very dear beloved pets and yours too my friend.
I could write a book on my forever buddy OPUS, he was the best. he was taken much too soon as the case with Kessie. and Pip what made it even harder was the same fact that I had to make the call.....it perhaps in rights should have been made even sooner, but I couldn't. that I grieve for too. to be the one playing God and saying 'its enough' is perhaps the hardest thing I've ever had to do.....
I had the Vet come to our home that last morning, he sat with us for awhile until he felt I was ready....than he quietly slipped out the door, leaving my Opus with me for the rest of the day until I could gain the courage to bring him in for cremation. still I had to call the clinic one last time that night before it closed, to have him just go and check the box...just to 'be sure'...he wasn't just laying there alone and sleeping...I knew he wasn't for he was unmistakeably gone before I took him in, but I just HAD TO BE reassured one last time.
I went thru a very bad time after this for awhile, I still had 3 more kitties at home that I love completely...but Opus was forever gone.
Its not something we ever want to do, but we have too, its the price of having their love and companionship...they do count on us to be ready to also do for them what they can't do for themselves.
your not killing her, your putting her at peace because you love her, she knows that b/c you've shown her that love everyday of her little life....she'll no longer suffer but you will for quite awhile.....
my heart goes out to you, I think making the decision is the hardest part...than the grief before the healing.
God bless my friend, you all have my prayersâ„
Anita is very hesitant about making the Last Visit, feels somewhat that we are killing our cat and then just getting on a plane to go back east.
(I could not write this without stopping to sob for several minutes.)
I have had to do some very hard and harsh things at times in my life. I have been a cold and callous individual at times. I have killed a man, in the line of duty, which I was finally able to tell Anita about just after last Thanksgiving (over 27 years after the event).
But, making this decision, for a little creature that gives love so willingly and without reservation, it's like if someone was forcing me to harm my grand babies: Parker, Zoey or Naomi.
This cat, this unique creature, has been a part of my life for over 1/5 of that life. She's never called me dad, but she has cheered me up in so many ways.
Kessie, and our other kitties (past and present) have given me affection and attention when I have felt so low that whale poo has been my roofing material.
Kessie is 12 (abt 68 in human years), but we are used to our kitties living much longer: Cerrie was 16 (abt 84), Victoria was 17 1/2 (abt 90) and Cammie was 21 1/3 (abt 105)...Tuna, who showed up the night that my mom and dad had a BBQ to celebrate Anita and I getting engaged made it to 16. Dancer died from a maloccurrence at the vet's at 6 1/2 (abt 46), which was a very great shock.
There are 1000's of people I'd stab in the gut with a horse manure encrusted spike before I'd even begin to accept that this is the way that Kessie was meant to go.
A gentle, affectionate beast should not be ended this way.
(I could not write this without stopping to sob for several minutes.)
I have had to do some very hard and harsh things at times in my life. I have been a cold and callous individual at times. I have killed a man, in the line of duty, which I was finally able to tell Anita about just after last Thanksgiving (over 27 years after the event).
But, making this decision, for a little creature that gives love so willingly and without reservation, it's like if someone was forcing me to harm my grand babies: Parker, Zoey or Naomi.
This cat, this unique creature, has been a part of my life for over 1/5 of that life. She's never called me dad, but she has cheered me up in so many ways.
Kessie, and our other kitties (past and present) have given me affection and attention when I have felt so low that whale poo has been my roofing material.
Kessie is 12 (abt 68 in human years), but we are used to our kitties living much longer: Cerrie was 16 (abt 84), Victoria was 17 1/2 (abt 90) and Cammie was 21 1/3 (abt 105)...Tuna, who showed up the night that my mom and dad had a BBQ to celebrate Anita and I getting engaged made it to 16. Dancer died from a maloccurrence at the vet's at 6 1/2 (abt 46), which was a very great shock.
There are 1000's of people I'd stab in the gut with a horse manure encrusted spike before I'd even begin to accept that this is the way that Kessie was meant to go.
A gentle, affectionate beast should not be ended this way.
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