Well I have good news for once.....My female Takara who just had her 5 kittens
is NEGATIVE.....WHAT A RELIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just wanted to
thank Phaewryn,Mary Christine, Nina , Kelley and everyone else who has been
guiding me through this nightmare. I'm looking at things in a whole different
way because of your advice , comments, opinions and experiences and I think I'm
out of panic mode finally! >From now on I will vaccinate all my cats to help
prevent this from happening again , even though I'm now convinced the 2 newer
cats came here with it and I'm still hoping my oldest Bengal tests negative
when I retest him. He had tested negative before and could just be going
through fighting it now so I have 3 more weeks to wait and will retest him and
see where he is at. I have a wonderful home for Bruschi and that leaves me
with my Calico girl who is still battling her URI and needs to gain some weight
but Phaewryn is giving me some good advice and hopefully I get her back on
track real soon:)
THANK YOU ALL...you're a wonderful group here and have helped me through this
tremendously!
Deb
----- Original Message -----
From: MaryChristine
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: New Member - Deb and mixing
halleluia, sister!
(yeah, i'll go to bed now.)
On 5/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Every "what if" I have experienced in the past brought me to a new
awareness in the present, even though the lessons were hard, I learned from
them. "What if" I had just taken that extra few minutes to check on Kiki that
night, rather than going to bed because I was too tired to feed him? Would I
have been able to take him to the vet in time to save him? That was a hard
lesson, when I found him dead the next morning with injuries. BUT, now, when I
think something might be wrong, I take action on it IMMEDIATELY, I never wait
to take care of things I could put off until tomorrow, because I learned that
sometimes tomorrow doesn't come. "What if" I had just not let him go outside?
Would he have not been hit by that car? Of course not. BUT, now I keep my cats
indoors only, unless they are on a leash. I learned from that "what if" as
well. What if I had only KNOWN that a broken back wasn't a death sentence?
Would I still have my sweet Do-Dah here today, happy in a cat cart? I miss him,
but now I know that it's not a death sentence, and I've used the lesson I
learned from his life to help countless injured pets since by telling THEIR
owners "don't listen to your vet, there ARE options!" I have Bones to show for
it too, I think it was a test, that I was to be sent not one, but TWO cats with
broken backs. The first one, I got it wrong, but the second one... well, she
couldn't be any happier than she is today! I swear to you all, I am SURE that I
have been sent these "second chances" just to redeem myself and forgive my past
mistakes! I could list a long list of all the "what if's" I've experienced in
my years with cats, all my regrets, and all of my losses, but the fact remains
the same, no matter HOW HARD that lesson came, and no matter how many times I
relive it, and no matter how many tears I shed, I know that I LEARNED, and THAT
means that none of their lives were in vain.
Phaewryn
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