speaking of the cat

i feel like making up for lost time so i will tell you the 900 dollar saga of our cat, cassady. almost two weeks ago i was getting ready to take the boys to the doctors when i heard the sound of a cat hawking up a hairball on my tan carpet. at least that is what i thought was happening. in reality, the cat had tried to get the hairball up and it went part of the way back down into her airway. so she was dying on the floor with all kinds of fluid leaking out of her mouth. i called the vet we had used before and they were not in and kindly advised me to try another vet if it was an emergency. now why else would i be calling a vet? we never got unneccessary medical care growing up why should the cats?

so any way, i call another vet, try to find the cat carrier, get the boys and cat into the van and try to find the vet. when we got there it was clear to them it was an emergency and the vet looked into the cat's mouth and said that there is something in there. and whisks her away. now i love that cat. and the boss really loves that cat but if someone had told me that she would probably have brain damage from this ordeal i might not have said save her. i might have but i am not sure. so that day was seven hundred dollars.

they sent her home that afternoon so i expected that she would be fine. well, she was not fine. she could barely walk and refused to eat or drink and hid in the bottom of our closet. two day later she is back for iv fluids, one hundred dollars. the next day back for force feeding, one hundred dollars. and then i had to go to cvs and get appetite stimulant pills. i felt like an idiot because the one thing i don't look like i need is appetite stimulating pills. lol

so now she will only eat tuna fish and she is drinking water finally. she is coming out of the closet more and seems more with it. so i am glad they didn't tell me that she would have brain damage . and really who doesn't?