Robin Matsumoto
Lairian
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- Aug 5, 2016
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With a heavy heart, I am at a loss of losing my 2 1/2 year girl to this horrible disease, HCM. Over a year ago I had my “Yoya scanned, ultra sound and a blood test for any possible heart disease. At the time of my cat’s ultrasound, her animal cardiologist wasn’t too concerned, “ we’ll test her in a year for more results”. Fast forward a year, on a quiet Sunday afternoon my cat began gasping for breath. Her regular vet was unavailable so I took her to a animal emergency hospital and with a quick triage, my baby was put in a oxygen box. Her lungs had filled with fluid, her heart had enlarged and was on the verge of kidney failure. There were no symptoms before this. Up until that day, Yoya was a perfectly healthy cat. Now I was being told that she was very ill and may not make it thru the night. I got a call that she coughed up fluid and was in the last stages of life, then miraculously she got better thru the night and I was able to bring her home on a Tuesday. So far everything was going well and she was her old self. I worked out the medication problem and began adding it to her food 3 times a day. Pimobendan, Furosemide, Clopidogrel. Then 5 days later, it happens again, the breathing, the duress. Back to the vet Emergency a second time. Did I say that the first visit cost roughly $3000.00 (?) this time it was worse, open mouth gasping. The vet was trying to get her blood pressure reading but it had fallen so dangerously low and they put an oxygen mask over her face..My baby was drowning in her own fluid and her blood pressure was even lower. The vet said if my cat were a human she would be having g a heart transplant and there are no animal heart transplants. My baby was suffering and I had to make that awful descion to send her to heaven sooner than I wanted. I was hoping to have her atleast a year with these disease but I think God had different plans. I think he wanted her more than ever. This was another $1500. But I didn’t care. I wanted the vet to do CPR if she went into arrest. ‘I” wasn’t ready to give up and let go. I cried so hard and tried to calm down. My boyfriend was with me and just as broken-hearted. I watched her gasp for breath, her mouth blue and swollen. Finally, I took my ego out of the equation and gave the vet the ok to allow her to die with dignity and take away her pain. They took me to a quiet room where they gave me my baby and I held her in my arms as she was being put to sleep. The vet gave her a sedative first and then the euthanasia. Yoya had gotten her Angel Wings and was on the fast track to heaven. I pray that I can see her some day when it’s “my time” Please hold your hairless babies close to your heart and give them lots of head smooches, hugs and kisses. God Bless
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