I'am so sorry for your loss.--- Glenda Gardam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, little Boomer (Boomie) lost her battle and I
> had the Vet who had
> been treating her (and the one who I finally was
> able to get interferon
> ordered from - unfortunately it was too late for
> Boomer) come to my
> house to assist her journey to a better place. She
> was between 11
> months - 13 months old.. so young, with sable gray
> fur, bright little
> yellow eyes, a tiny little head that never quite
> matched her body and
> never weighed more than 6.5 lbs. When she meowed,
> which wasn't often,
> although she would purr up a storm to compensate,
> only the sides of her
> mouth would lift up and barely a tinge of her little
> pink tongue would
> show, it was so cute. Her tail was her pride - the
> full plumed tail,
> that never quite looked clean (hygiene was not a
> priority of hers, so
> one of my other cats would groom her because she
> just never ever thought
> it was necessary!!!) She had tiny little feet and
> walked as a little
> lady should, very daintily. When I brought her to
> live with me, one of
> my other FeLV cats, Francisco, would try to boss her
> around by
> pretending to lunge at her and then leaping over top
> of her. She thought
> this quite the fun game, so she would chase him
> right afterwards,
> obviously to the confusion of Francisco!!! They got
> along well after
> that and towards the end of his life in April, she
> would lay her head on
> him when he was starting to succumb to the
> anemia..... it was very
> touching for me to see this action as well as others
> and makes me a firm
> believer that they can sense when another cat is
> nearing its end on
> earth.
>
> I originally wrote to the list April 26th about
> about Boomie's mystery
> inflammation that showed on blood tests and a fever
> that we were never
> able to get down below 103.8.... I had started to
> think maybe Boomie had
> the dry form of FIP as a couple of the cats rescued
> from the same house
> seemed to succumb to it (we don't know because no
> necropsies were done)
> and I was to bring her back for another blood test
> on Monday to see if
> anything showed up to point towards that.
> Unfortunately because of
> stress she came down with the calici virus and it
> hit her like a brick.
> On the Saturday and Sunday she had actually started
> to get more energy
> and appetite and even was walking around with her
> tail up (usually a
> good sign for her) and I thought with her being on
> the interferon (only
> one round) that we had beat whatever was happening
> with her because the
> antibiotics weren't helping (Flagyl, Orbax, Baytril,
> even a couple of
> minute doses of baby aspirin) Her bowels were
> improving greatly etc....
> Well, on Monday morning when I went upstairs to see
> her my heart sank
> because she looked like a different cat from the
> night before..... her
> left eye was almost closed with infection, she was
> having difficulty
> swallowing and her nostrils were full of green
> mucous...I looked at her
> and started to cry because I felt she had no chance
> to get over this
> seeing's as we didn't know what we were battling
> with the inflammation,
> and I had basically decided to see how she did for
> the morning - steamed
> her with a vaporizer, kept her nostrils clear with
> cotton balls and a
> saline mix. Her brother Valcor, however, I think,
> knew she wasn't going
> to make it because at one point she was laying on a
> windowsill on her
> side and although she was breathing OK, her eyes
> never blinked for long
> periods of time. Valcor went up to her and tried to
> lift her head with
> his head and she didn't respond, then he kind of bit
> (not hard) her neck
> to try to lift her up, all the while making really
> strange mewing
> sounds. This is not something he would normally do
> and it really scared
> me because I thought she was dying right then and
> there. She wasn't, but
> I made the very difficult decision to let her go
> before she just got
> worse. By afternoon (I had already made arrangements
> with the Vet to
> come to my home to help her pass on) she had begun
> to cough body racking
> coughs and felt I was doing the kindest thing.....
> not an easy decision.
> To make an already long story a bit shorter, my Vet
> did an in house
> autopsy (at no cost) to see if we could find some
> answers because he was
> as frustrated as I was in not being able to
> determine what was going
> on... he called me the next morning (yesterday) and
> said I had made the
> right decision and that her liver and her spleen
> were both abscessed and
> very infected........ at least she is at peace
> now.........
>
> Glenda
> and silhouettes of Francisco and Boomie
> as well as Fiver, Aslan, Fredo, Valcor and Caramilk
>
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