#sick pet

So I’m asking anyone that can help by donating to help me cover the recent vet visit and future cremation costs. Please and Thank you

Update: Sadie isn’t improving. She’s still moving around a bit, but mostly she’s picking spots and breathing hard. I’m devastated. I’ve been checking on her every two hours even into the night (so I’m completely exhausted). I was so hopeful the drops would work. 💔

If you've been seeing my posts lately you already know one of my babies isn't doing well. Shellby is very ill but is receiving treatment and I'll see to it that she gets all better. However this sort of thing is expensive, so I'm posting a kofi shop this week to help. If you are able to and feel like leaving a tip we'd be very grateful, but also within the week I'll be opening the shop and selling jewelry I've made and possibly commissions too.

Kilgore’s surgery went well yesterday. He was very sweet and wanted cuddles and pets when he got home. Also to eat. He was not freaked out by the collar but I don’t think he was able to get as comfortable in it overnight. I planned to keep him with the plastic one for a few days before switching to the the fabric collar, but we changed them out this morning. The fabric e collar we have is stiff enough where it protects his stitches but it doesn’t dig into his neck as much, allows for some flexibility moving around and is softer to sleep on. We also can roll it half way when Kilgore is eating.

Kilgore just wants more reasons to purr.

We have an update about his subcutaneous hemangiosarcoma.

It has been six months since I felt a lump under Kilgore’s jawbone and 5 months since they removed the tumor.

A month ago I felt a small lump in exactly the same spot as the primary tumor that was removed in November. The vet tested it but it was too small to show abnormal cells. The tumor grew over March and came back positive for cancer.

His surgery is scheduled for tomorrow. This time a lymphnode also showed abnormal cells so it will also be removed. Lung xrays were fine and that is one of the reasons we are proceeding with surgery. If cancer had spread to his organs we would not operate.

Right now Kilgore has no symptoms besides the lump I can feel. He is doing his thing and because he is completely himself, we have decided to give us all more time.

In the end, this cancer will be the end. It is very aggressive and not curable. There is not a lot of information about hemangiosarcoma and cats as it is most common in dogs. And it is also more common in spleens and organs and not as a subcutaneous cancer. We were told that the hemangiosarcoma could behave slightly differently than what is known about its progression in dogs but we know that our time with Kilgore will end because of it.

in the last 36 hours things with Mae have gotten so bad. she just lays there if she falls over, which she's doing because she's so uncoordinated and unsteady right now. I just walked in to check on her since it had been about 2.5 hours since I last did and when I opened the door I thought she was dead. she was just stiffly on her side in an unnatural way. I thought I just found her body until her stomach moved. she just walks into the trash bin, on or through her wet food, dry food, water, or litterbox without caring when she's doing her circles. she's developed huge muscle twitches in her jaw so I gave her some of the pain med from the emergency vet, but it doesn't seem to have helped at all. if, and that's a big IF I can get her to lay down, she's either stiff with her legs not sitting relaxed or her back end is tense and her front end is curled in on herself in the direction she circles.

it looked like earlier she had tried to drink, her head was wet in a place that couldn't be drool, and she was in front of her wet food bowl at one point, but as soon as I came in she started doing her circles.

I don't know what's happening. we're still 4 days away from a vet appointment we probably won't be able to fully afford.