It's been a long time , and I have put off sending this e-mail. My beloved Molly when to the Bridge on August 31, 2004. She battled lymphoma for 3 years only to have Felv rear its ugly head and take her from us.She was doing so well, the lymphoma was in remission for 3 years. I came home from work one Sunday night and she didn't still quite like herself, she always greeted me at the door. I didn't think much of it, we had an appointment at the Vets on Thursday and she didn't seem to be in any distress, just alittle off. When we went to the Vets she had a temp and her WBC was high, they put her on antibiotics. On friday she was worse, she just laid there not movig, I took her back to the Vets. Her temp was higher and so was her WBC. They wanted to keep her over night(she had never spent a night away from us, it VERY difficult) The next morning(Saturday) her fever was higher and they recommended we have her spend the weekend at the emergency/critical care Vet in cas!
e her
temp increased. That Monday she had an Ultrasound the lymphoma was nowhere to be found, it was the Felv making her sick. we brought her home, at first she was almost like her old self, slept with us and loving us. then she didn't want to eat, and stop drinking water. we knew it was time to say good-bye.Our Vet was going to come to the house, but ask us to take her there to put in an IV line to make it easier, and then they would come to our house. Once we got there we didn't want to put her through any more stress, we had them send her to the bridge.(this may sound stupid or hard to explain but I felt at peace because they were crying at my Vets office when we sent Molly to the Bridge, this made me realize how my lives she had touched.) We brought Molly home for the dogs and her brother to see her, it was strange, all the dogs licked her goodbye. but her brother Toots would not go near her. I still cry every day I miss her so. The last 2 years have been difficult, our !
house
caught on fire, my husband has prostate cancer, but Molly's death has affected me more than all of this. She was my light, my symbol of hope, I feel so lost. It has been 3 months and I still cry everyday, one of my dogs(little Jake)died Oct 21st, I loved him we had 12 years together, but I only had 12 days from the time Molly got sick until the time we had to say goodbye. Molly had her own pillow between my husband's and mine, we have not been able to wash the pillow case, we have been arguing alot lately and I know its because we are dealing with Molly's loss in different ways.I never in a million years thought a little cat would affect me so.Thank you for allowing me to vent and there is life with feline leukemia and lymphoma. JoAnn
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