Yesterday was a Doozy!
Yesterday was one helluva a day in the end. It went from just another day, to another bad day, to another worst day, to another terrible horrible day!
First my cat has been ill. Losing weight and not eating. So I take him to the vet. He has lost half his body mass, and he has jaundice. The vet tells me he may very well have liver failure. And if he does it's almost impossible to reverse, and it may not even be possible to medicate. Euthanization may be my only option. My cat is only 8 years old...he is suppossed to live for another 5 at least!
Then we get home, and I feed Marlow supper. Joey goes out to grab something from the car and doesn't close the baby gate. I have forgotten before too but have always caught her on time. Not this time. She took a tumble down the stairs, we live in a bi level so it was only 6 steps. But it scared the hell out of me, and I yelled at Joey. That wasn't right, we all make mistakes, so I apologized while trying to soothe Marlow. She was fine. More scared then anything thank god. No bruises, no concussion, I tested all her limbs. She only cried for maybe ten minutes max.
But then she wouldn't sleep. She would doze off with me but the second I put her down she would wake up. So not like her. In the end, by 5 in the morning, I was at wits end and I did the terrible. I let her sleep with us in bed. It took me another forty minutes to get her to doze off. So I was awake for almost 24 hours. And Joey got mad at me for getting upset.....he later said sorry for it. But I was up, worried about my cat, exhausted, with a fussy baby. And in the end, we had to live our bathroom light on and leave the door open a bit to get her to sleep. If it went dark she screamed. She sleeps in the dark every night!
First my cat has been ill. Losing weight and not eating. So I take him to the vet. He has lost half his body mass, and he has jaundice. The vet tells me he may very well have liver failure. And if he does it's almost impossible to reverse, and it may not even be possible to medicate. Euthanization may be my only option. My cat is only 8 years old...he is suppossed to live for another 5 at least!
Then we get home, and I feed Marlow supper. Joey goes out to grab something from the car and doesn't close the baby gate. I have forgotten before too but have always caught her on time. Not this time. She took a tumble down the stairs, we live in a bi level so it was only 6 steps. But it scared the hell out of me, and I yelled at Joey. That wasn't right, we all make mistakes, so I apologized while trying to soothe Marlow. She was fine. More scared then anything thank god. No bruises, no concussion, I tested all her limbs. She only cried for maybe ten minutes max.
But then she wouldn't sleep. She would doze off with me but the second I put her down she would wake up. So not like her. In the end, by 5 in the morning, I was at wits end and I did the terrible. I let her sleep with us in bed. It took me another forty minutes to get her to doze off. So I was awake for almost 24 hours. And Joey got mad at me for getting upset.....he later said sorry for it. But I was up, worried about my cat, exhausted, with a fussy baby. And in the end, we had to live our bathroom light on and leave the door open a bit to get her to sleep. If it went dark she screamed. She sleeps in the dark every night!
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