#cataplexy

❄️☁️🪽🦌 Aksana . . . sleepy head

Please be safe during the forth of july

I have started having seizures on top of my cataplexy. When I had cataplexy, my little black stray cat, who I kept instead of TNR because she had a spinal injury (she can move fine now but avoids using her back legs a lot and has a much higher muscle density in her front legs than back and is on a joint health suppliment already), would come and sit next to me and bring a toy to play next to me and try to get me to get out of whatever emotional state triggered the cataplexy.

With my seizures, she doesn't bring toys. She will get out of a dead sleep to come and sit in the room and watch me. She just quietly keeps an eye on me. She keeps her distance and just makes sure that I am not hurt. She then stays with me afterwards for hours just watching to try to make sure I'll be okay.

Two months after I first trapped her and she was half feral still, I had had surgery and she would sleep on top of me and purr all night alongside my other cat. Once I was healed, she stopped sitting on me almost entirely and resumed purring only on rare occasion like most other feral cats.

This little stray has been trying her best to take care of me since the moment I got her despite the fact that people make her anxious and she doesn't know what to do. I have never had a cat so compassionate and the real kicker is I am almost certain she had an owner whose house she was born at and then was thrown out of as soon as they accidentally hurt her back rather than pay vet bills. As soon as I first touched her she knew what petting was, I never saw other kittens but she knew how to play without hurting others and in fact is so gentle with her mouth that she would put golden retrievers that hold eggs to shame. Every toy she plays with she bathes afterwards like they are a sibling she was playing with.

She is a gem of a cat and I love her so much. I just needed to make an appreciation post for her.