#tw: sick cat

[ofviolentdeath]

Our appointment today did not go great. The x-rays were largely inconclusive due to either a fluid buildup or potential mass. We are being referred to a vet certified in ultrasounds to get a better idea of what's going on but the odds are leaning towards our sweet girl having cancer. We got an estimate on the ultrasound cost and we're looking at about $270 for that on top of the $60 exam fee. This is not including any bloodwork that might be done before we go back to our regular vet. So we've adjusted the amount on the gofundme to try to keep as much of this off of credit cards as possible. 

Please be warned that there are pictures of her at the vet included in the most recent update on the fund and one of them is a close-up of her stomach.

[newtid]

[irlplasticlamb]

i’m so sorry if i seem a bit off or post less in the next week or so — i just found out my beloved 17 years old soulmate cat got diagnosed with bone cancer and he doesn’t have much time left. he lives in my family home with my parents still whilst i’m abroad so it’s double tough because i can’t be with him. i just need some time to calm down and make my peace with everything

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in a car wreck and called out sick from work after getting back home. Also, I was pregnant and I had 5 cats for some reason. And a huge house. I can't stress enough how much room I had.

[bonefall]

Idk if I’m wrong or not but if I remember correctly doesn’t Clear Sky once slash Quick Water for daring to question him? I very vividly remember her confronting him about something and him getting pissed and slashing her over it.

I remember it being Falling Feather, but can't check the book atm (fighting a sea lion rn, yes i have my harpoon dw)

But yes he does lose his shit on one of the two, it's in The First Battle after Thunder comes back to SkyClan for (iirc) a negotiation purpose. She says goodbye to Thunder too nicely and Clear Sky reprimands her about it.

Afterwards, he jumps in front of the whole Clan and says that everyone is allowed to abuse her however they'd like until she's learned her lesson. He compares her to a snake in the dirt. They're allowed to bully her, steal her prey, and command her however they'd like.

But like, he was just sad about his wives, so it's ok actually.

[pastafossa]

Anxious af today. Cato, my old sick kitty, has been doing ok on the steroid energy wise and he's not vomiting anymore, but it seems like no matter how much I feed him, he just won't put the weight back on like he did initially. So I've upped his food intake further.

The vet said she can't prescribe more of the steroid, though, until he gets checked so I have to bring him in, which we've booth been trying to avoid to reduce his stress. But there's no dodging it now. Which means, during the exam, she might find one of two things that I've been dreading.

Possibility 1: stomach issue I can't remember the name of. This is the best case scenario, and we may just need to up his food intake even further, or add another med in with the steroid.

Alternatively, we have Possibility 2, which is cancer. It's common in Cato's breed towards the end, and would cause the same symptoms, symptoms lessened by the steroid.

I'm terrified I'm going to take him in, in just a little while now, and the vet will examine him and then say it. The C word that will indicate after 16 years of loving this cat, that we're towards the end. But there's not much else to do.

He's on my lap now, so I'll pet him for a few more minutes before loading him up for the vet. Wish me luck.

[kudossi]

you will blaze like fire (and lack the oxygen to keep yourself burning)

Dandelionkit blinks. “I want Lionblaze to mentor me,” she says, her voice barely above a mouse’s breath.

Squirrelflight crouches over her, tail draped around Dandelionkit’s thin shoulders. “I’m sure he’d love to,” she says quietly. “I’ll ask Bramblestar if he can, okay? But only if you eat your herbs.”

Dandelionkit looks down at the chewed-up bundle at her paws, eyes impossibly tired. “Do you think he’ll name me Dandelionblaze?”

Despite herself, Squirrelflight purrs. She runs her tail along Dandelionkit’s white-splotched back, hoping to encourage her to eat. “If that’s what you want,” she says. “I once knew a cat who picked his own name, too. I’m sure you can have a say.”

The pale ginger she-cat nods, beginning to lap up the pulp. “I’d like to be like him, momma. Lion,” she clarifies, as if Squirrelflight wouldn’t know. “He’s so strong.”

“You’ll be strong, too,” Squirrelflight says, willing herself to believe it. “Stronger, if you eat your honey. Lionblaze never took his herbs.”

The small kit manages around half the pile before she gasps, little sides heaving. The herbs come up with bitter, awful-smelling bile, and then Dandelionkit coughs and coughs and coughs, frame shaking and rattling and spasming—

(Squirrelflight has never felt so helpless.)

[loquaciouscat]

I wanted to talk about this one thing people are skipping over. Reigen's feet scene. Read this first before judge me and laugh it off!!!

It is funny and it made me giggle as well, it became a meme really quickly. Yet it's actually a symbolism that is easy to miss unless you are familiar to Japan symbolism.

CW: discussion of s*icide. Please read at your own risk!!

To me, anime wasn't able to capture the seriousness of the situation.

Reigen was getting prepared to die.

Barefoot suicide is really a thing and also is a common TV trope in Japanese media. Many people believe it's because people don't want to track dirt and such into their ethereal destination, or to imply it was their choice to die. Apperantly as it got more commonly inspired by real life situations, abondoned pairs of shoes have became a symbol for suicide. Feel free to search yourself as well.

You can see in the manga panel, there was a literal hurricane going on in the place. All the people that have faced with Shigeo so far were all very powerful espers, yet got severely hurt. Reigen has no powers to protect himself, never had one. You can literally pinpoint the moment he has decided to go for it, and you can also how terrified he is.

He is ready to die to save Mob, yet he is still so scared. He goes for it anyways.

Considering seriousness of the situation, it was indeed a suicide mission for him. I believe the repeated scenes and focus on bare foot was to show Reigen was ready to risk everything to protect his young brother figure.

Everything Reigen had in his life, it was because of Mob's influence on him. This goes for both ways, we were shown how much Reigen affected Mob yet didn't fully grasp how much Mob affected Reigen. This was shown beautifully in the seperation arc. I believe we can see a similar situation going on here.

When he started S&S Counseling, he was an adult lost in life. He wanted to "become someone", (which I believe it's roots comes from his family dynamic) and Mob helped him achieved that. But it was built on a lie. And they both knew it, yet didn't talk on it. Mob didn't share about his hidden feelings much either.

At some point, understandably, it exploded. All the repressed feelings came to surface. Reigen risked everything he had left, including his life, to assure Mob that it was okay to struggle with his own identity, and it doesn't make him less or more of a person. We never really see Reigen being this vulnerable, so it was so refreshing to see. He didn't just assured Mob it's okay to struggle with self-acceptance, but he also admitted he struggles with it too. And it makes me cry whenever I think about he was willing to die to help the kid he raised.

I just can't help but adore the strong bond they have with each other. And I'm so glad the manga (and the anime) just ended with the most amazing way of showing self-acceptance.

I will always appreciate One's storytelling so much!!!

[decarbry]

yabureme, willing to suffer for the sake of others bc of his programming, upon receiving a dead bird from the cat and not wanting the cat to think he doesn't appreciate the thought: ... guess i gotta eat this. (cue shiggy walking in to yabureme w his mouth full, feathers sticking out of his mouth and his red eye grimacing. shiggy ends up doing the "HEY. WHAT DO YOU HAVE? DROP IT! you do to dogs)

[the-rest-of-what-remains]

[Previous moon]

[ofviolentdeath]

An actual positive update on my darlin’ calico princess Eris under the cut~ (it’s a GOOD update, promise, it’s just long)

So we had our Big Scary Ultrasound Appointment yesterday and little Miss did fantastic. She was very cooperative for Dr. Jones and it was shown that the fluid buildup is almost ENTIRELY contained to her uterus. There was one small pocket of free fluid, but it wasn’t a major concern and can be addressed easily. 

Dr. Jones was honestly surprised at Rissy’s energetic curiosity because, and to quote him, “she should be a lot sicker for what I’m seeing”. But, aside from her physical appearance, the only real sign she’s in even any pain is teeth grinding when she eats. Aside from that, there has been no change in her personality or temperment.

So we called our regular vet today to see if the results had been sent over to them yet, Ms Leslie said no, they hadn’t had anything come through but she went to double check with Dr. Mason (whom I will refer to simply as Doc for the rest of this) if he had spoken to Dr. Jones. He had not so Leslie put in a request with the other clinic. 

Doc personally called me a little while later saying he had the hand written notes for Dr. Jones and we discussed what I had been told and Doc went “can you have her here Monday morning by 8:30am for surgery?” I said absolutely. It usually takes 2 months to get into my regular vet for a spay or neuter. It can take longer to get in at the low cost spay and neuter place. Doc personally found the time and space to fit her in short notice and put her appointment into the system himself (the man is not the best with computers, I am very proud of him, we had a good giggle about it).

I had no idea the cost at this point because, honestly, Doc never knows the prices off of the top of his head and this is a more complex spay. He said he’d have one of the techs call me when they had a minute to discuss pricing.

Ms. Stacy called not long after. Five. Hundred. Dollars. 

Cue my panic.

I go to update my lovely friend Ellie, she’s been one of the besties since we were 12, she adopted 2 bonded little voids from me and everything. I trust this woman with everything in my life. She asked how short I was for the cost because she can help. I hop onto my banking app, check my care credit line, add in what I get paid tomorrow, subtract the bills that absolutely need to be paid this weekend when I get paid. I was going to have just enough to cover the surgery with absolutely no wiggle room. Not even 1 minute after I tell her how much I’ll have, she venmo’s me the full $500 for Rissy’s surgery. This is on top of the $250 she sent me at the beginning of the week to go towards her ultrasounds. 

I sobbed. 

Now I don’t have to worry about scrambling to cover any unexpected extras that might come up with her surgery. I don’t have to worry about something coming out of my account that I wasn’t expecting and suddenly not being able to cover the surgery. 

Y’all, my baby has a real chance to get better and I am so absolutely grateful to everyone that has reached out, donated, shared the gofundme, and kept my princess in their thoughts. The kindness we have been shown has been astounding and I love you all so fucking much. 

Thank you.

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Hey guys, if you could pray for me and my parents I'd be really grateful. The last cat in our old brigade, Tansy, is almost 15 and at the end of her days. She tends to get sick from allergies during the spring and she's had a rough winter and she's just, she's not going to make it through this time and she's been SUCH a good cat her whole life that we're not gonna let her suffer through it to the end. We're hoping we can get an appointment to get her put down tomorrow (that sounds awful saying it, but she's miserable and I can't watch her suffer she doesn't deserve that), so we would really appreciate your thoughts and prayers.

[acheemient]

Going a little crazy today.

Pocket has an abscess on his back and is currently having surgery. It's not a huge surgery, but I'm still freaking out.

I had to drop him off at the vet at 7:30 AM (4 hours ago), and they are going to call me when I can pick him up. I am going to be useless until I get him back.

I'm supposed to be working, and I can't get anything done!!

My poor boy. Hopefully, I'll get the call soon. 😭

[thostrolot]

Hey there, I need some help!

Normally I don't do these sort of things because I have no need and I'm kind of a self kept person, but things are getting extra dicey and I need a place I feel would get spread around better on.

Gonna go ahead and warn you all ahead of time, this story contains mention of abuse in many different forms, so if these things trigger you, I'm sorry. I have to mention it.

I'm telling a story that isn't exactly mine, but it means more to me than I can say. I hope you all can believe me when I put this out, because it all sounds farfetched, but I couldn't make this up if I tried. I hope you all will listen.

My fiancé is a few states apart from me. We've known each other for about 12+ years, and have been dating for a few of those years.

In those years, he's had it really rough, being in a family that was either abusive, not present, or oppressive in some fashion (they were the "pray the gay away" types). Recently, the person who was taking care of him passed away of cancer, and he has been staying with a friend of his.

This family was good for a little bit, but the father was an alcoholic, very toxic and verbally abusive to everyone. His addiction is what eventually killed him, and he has left the family high and dry on money for anything.

There is a reason this is important information.

Throughout these years, he's had a cat, a Tortoise shell manx, about 6 years old. Her name is Kiki. She is rather feisty, yelling at the top of her little lungs if you so much as pat her rear-end wrong. She has been with him all this time.

As of recent, however, she has become sick. She has been found to have a rather large bladder stone and gets worse by the day. He doesn't have the ability to get it immediately taken care of.

I want to help him raise the money needed to help with surgery for her. Anything at all helps. It's much appreciated if you could share the story around as well. Thank you for your time and have a wonderful day.

[theethlezprincez]

still in the hospital and being tube fed since tuesday. i feel awful, i miss my cats. but the staff are okie. i cried the first night lol. it feels like i’m falling deeper and deeper in a deep black hole.

[pastafossa]

Right. Old kitty is home.

Good news: he's only lost a pound, which is better than we'd feared; the vet felt no masses in his stomach; he felt good enough to growl at her; and she said if it is cancer then she's guessing he's still got time.

Downside: we're still not sure what it is, whether it's cancer or a stomach issue. She said it could maaaaybe be thyroid, but she's not sure.

He's got some bloodwork being done to see, and after that we'll have to decide if we want to try to ultrasound him to look for cancer. He's also got the beginnings of a respiratory infection so he's been put on antibiotics. Another wait and see. But at least there's no confirmation of cancer yet. I'll take it tbh.