So last night I was awake and rubbing my cat’s chest while keeping her warm. She has a chest infection which at her age is really serious. She has been panting like (she won’t like me saying this, but) a dog for the last couple of days and last night she was panting so hard I though she was going to do herself an injury. She hasn’t eaten anything in about two days which, for my furry dustbin, is extremely unusual. Add that to the fact that she has been shivering and her body temperature has dropped so much even her tongue has been cold and it all adds up to a scary scary time.
Last night, instead of sleeping, I sat up with her and helped her breathe with the aforementioned chest rubbing, and lots of praying.
There has been a lot of extremely worried tears from me this weekend, lots of distracting myself and lots of denial… but something worked, because at about 5:30 this morning the panting stopped and a purr came out. And then she licked my fingers… and then she wobbled out of my arms to her food bowl and ate something.
I have never been so relieved in all my life.
And now I am playing the distraction game again and going to bed early to stop thinking about tomorrow. I know I’m panicking over nothing. It’s going to be fine.
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Penelope - Thank you. You don’t know how much it means knowing people ‘out there’ are supporting me.
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It was you who said “at her age”!
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Dan - And for that I pay and pay and pay and pay…
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March 28th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I feel so slack I couldn’t wish you good luck for your results. I am sorry. I was thinking of you though. THANK GOD your cat is OK. I hate it when pets are ill. It’s so stressful. Hope she is definitely on the mend.
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