#pet illness cw

[wildmelon]

survived the weekend from hell and after a packed, sad, heartwarming, healing, and stressful couple travel days i'm home again... exhausted and drained, but home and feeling so much better after mourning and saying goodbye as a family ❤️ and we also got good news from the vet 🥹 thank you once again to anyone who left a kind comment last week, it meant the world to me 🫶🏼

[crowtrobotx]

I know I shouldn’t but I feel massively guilty for doing like… anything other than spending time with my dog right now. Even going to work/showering/running necessary errands feels like a betrayal, to say nothing of the moments where I forget anything is wrong and have the audacity to laugh at a joke or get absorbed in some other task. I know it’s unrealistic and irrational but man. Fuck this.

[seabiscuit]

puppo isn't doing much better. i came home to puppy puke and she had blood in her stool again 😩 vet appt tomorrow at 3, though, luckily

[dengswei]

cw for pet illness

trying to distract myself because my dog has been sick all day to the point we've gotten worried that we've had to call the vet and i'm like trying to be positive but i'm also feeling incredibly guilty because last night she wasn't eating her food properly so i was feeding her food that she didn't eat out of her bowl to her because sometimes she eats it that way .... and what if that's what caused this.... like what if she's just eaten too much because of me (i think my mum fed her a bit of her food too

she's old too and ..... idk i've never seen her like that... she's moving a lot more now than she was a couple minutes ago so i'm hoping it's just dehydration but yeah i'm... anxious to say the least

my mum asked if i wanted to go to the vet too but i just couldn't get myself to go....

[voidtouched-blue]

Plans have changed.

Ozzie, one of my mom's cats, is being put down today. Some mystery illness hit him so fast that he lost 3 pounds over the course of a month. They think it's cancer, but he has no masses and has been tested out the wazoo.

He's not technically my cat, but I love all of my mom's cats like they're my own. Ozzie was unique in that he truly loved everyone. He demanded to be held, and he would greet every person with a hug and a kiss. The sweetest boy ever.

This news isn't necessarily out of the blue for me, but I held on hope that he would recover. I know he is grateful for the love given to him by so many. He's famous among my close friends and both sides of my family. Even people who don't like cats fell in love with Ozzie.

I'm going to miss him busting into my room when I stayed on weekends to sleep on my face, or to just come in for snuggles. It's going to be hard without him. He had so much love to give, even when he wasn't feeling well. Nothing could dissuade him from wanting to cuddle.

If you made it this far, please give your pets a cuddle for me. Their lives aren't long, but they sure do have quite the impact on our own.

That being said, I'll likely not be doing any writing for a little while. I appreciate your understanding, but I'll be open to private messages after a few days.

[emmatriarchy]

Last update (unless you ask)

Baby boy Gustave had his final checkup at the vet today. He's got a mostly clean bill of health. The stitches site still needs to do some healing, but he's already halfway there ^_^ I need to get him to finish his meds but he's gonna be fine ^_^ I'm so relieved.

He's mad he still got the cone, but he needs to have fully healed stitches first.

(Also the girls love the expensive kibble too. That's gonna be expensive to feed all of them now lmao)

[anachrosims]

Pet death warning.

I was going to get some CC uploaded but I just. I just can’t. I’m sorry.

Jack is gone. 

The long and short of it is he was exceedingly anemic and wasn’t producing any more red blood cells. He also had a fever of 105F they couldn’t explain even after blood work. Was showing signs of FIV. Also indications of bone marrow cancer. Treatment options were to be a hospital stay and transfusion but it would only prolong him for weeks/months, and seeing as he was only 5lbs and already unhappy, that seemed like a cruel thing to put him through.

He went peacefully in my arms. I got to say goodbye with him wrapped in his favorite blanket. He purred for a while before they came in to do the injection.

He was a very good boy and I’m going to miss him. He had a long and happy life--nearly 17 years. Ultimately he was where he wanted to be--with me, where he seemed to feel the safest and happiest--he was always the most happy when he was in my lap or in my arms and even sought me out right to the end.

I’ve asked for tomorrow off work. Please pray they give it to me. I feel like I have a piece of me that was torn out. It hurts so much, and even holding Fiona, his sister, hurts.

I’m glad I got to say goodbye to him and that he went at the end of a long and healthy life. But God it hurts.

I’m so tired. I’m going to miss him so much.

[brassandblue]

Fiona is sick now. I’m taking her to the vet either tomorrow or Friday (because work sucks ass).

Please send good vibes. Please.

[asterchats]

juni vs getting her into the carrier so she can see the vet FIGHT

[aartifex-a]

I know it’s RP and so I don’t owe anyone an explanation of why I haven’t been active, but to make it brief my mental health has been really bad. I’m having sleep issues, financial issues, and medical issues with pets and family. My sister had a stroke, our puppy almost died, my cat was having issues and needed bloodwork and a medication adjustment, my hours got cut at work, needless to say it’s just been a lot. And this is just April-May, never mind when I was sick around March or when my mom was hospitalized in January. 

When I do have muse lately it’s been over on @soncfseed because of my returning Far Cry fixation. I’m still active on Discord, and mutuals can add me there and talk muses, plots, or just chat OOC. Add me at: cherry is dead #9133. I really, really want to be back here and as soon as I can stabilize my sleep issues and mental health I’m sure I’ll have much more energy to write. I promise I am not ignoring people. 

Love you all <3

[bengesko]

Idk what to do. Gino still won't put weight on his bad foot so now he's developed a sore on his good foot, and it started bleeding, so I have him in his carrier trying to keep him calm, warm and still, but I don't know how much pain he's really in.

I feel awful because this isn't a good quality of life for him, and I don't know what else to do.

[ebonyforged]

feelings under the cut

im in a very sad, very difficult situation regarding a very dear pet of mine, so if for the next few days i act off or sad, just excuse me please. its not how i normally am i promise.

[blackmoldmp3]

possibly over reacting w the cat stuff possibly under reacting who am i to say. i don’t know anything

[eljayetc]

Pupdate!

Kai is doing so well and has been so brave. He cried himself to sleep on Tuesday night, which was heart wrenching. But by Wednesday morning, he seemed to be feeling much better. He hasn’t been bothering the incision much so far, but I’m guessing when it gets into the itchy stage of healing, he’ll be a little more distressed about it. The one incision has a bit of a red spot on it, and I’m hoping it’s just healing redness and not irritation redness. He goes back to the vet a week from tomorrow to remove sutures.

[thirt13n]

bear update — under a cut for medical stuff … im on mobile atm so i hope the cut actually works

we’re at the emergency vet rn with bear — they biopsied a lump on her neck on monday and the news wasn’t great .. and now she’s super swollen and they’re concerned the tumo.r’s gotten super aggressive as a result of the biopsy… so if I disappear from the dash and ims for a little while, that would be why.

[voidtouched-blue]

Good morning.

I'm going to be relatively busy today, but I'll try to clear out my inbox at some point. In other news, I have quite a mix of news to share under the cut. It's about my oldest cat, Samwise (12), and the vet visit we had yesterday. She's okay, just an update on her health that I don't want to potentially trigger anyone with.

She had some lab work done, and the vet told me that the levels of her thyroid are bordering hyperthyroidism, which could also be causing the rise of indicators for chronic kidney disease. She is around the age that cats start developing these common problems, so my timing for bringing her in couldn't have been better. Everything has been caught early, but it does mean that Sam will need check-ups every six months, and I need to change her diet. I also need to prepare to medicate her based on the numbers they just ran. They have another test to run to fully check if she is actually dealing with hyperthyroidism, and I'll be hearing the results from that sometime this week.

To be honest, I admit that I've mostly been in denial that there was even a possibility that she would be getting any sort of disease that older cats tend to get because she's been relatively healthy. Aside from some arthritis in her arms, (and before I got the call about her labs) she's shown no signs of potential illness. She looks good for her age, and she has relatively even muscle tone (according to the vet). But, I'm glad I finally took her in. I want Sam to live as long as she can without suffering. I've had her since 2010 when she was around six weeks old (she was found under someone's porch). She stayed with my parents for a few years before I took her into my care, and she and I have grown immeasurably close. She's my first pet as an adult, and this news is really hard for me, even if nothing is truly wrong yet.

I love my cats. I love them as much as I love my human friends and family.

I know that being able to catch these things early means that I can have more time with her, and I very much intend to. I'm just not prepared as an adult to deal with the emotions that come with being responsible for her health and care.

That being said, I appreciate anyone who took the time to read this. I promise I'm fine, Sam is fine. I just needed to vent about it a little bit. She's one of my best friends, and I can't talk about her enough.

I will be keeping myself quite busy outside of my free time for writing on Tumblr. The cost for her care is entirely my responsibility and I need to start building up my income, so I will be putting my nose to the grindstone to fill my commission queue.

Thanks again to everyone who read this.