whats been going on

 

This an an email I wrote to someone about what has been going on and also my computer is dead and I am using my sister’s laptop. I don’t know when mine will be fixed.

My kitty died of leukemia on thursday. He hadbeen losing a lot of weight the past couple of weeks but we didnt really think much of it and my mom just thought he had a cold. Then, he started getting really weak and wednesday night/day I would pick him up and he would just lay on me. He was usully the squirmy type and when Iwent to bed i laid him on my chest and put a blanket on him and just kissed his face a million times. Then i layed him on the side of me and he just didnt move. He eventually slowly got up and jumped off and went under my bed. This was about 10 pm.

The next morning, It was about 6 45 and I knew he was still under my bed. When I looked under he was laying there flat, i almost didnt see him. I touched him, He was cold and he let out a low loud cry. I dragged him out of under my bed and he was as limp as a rag. He head just hung down. I layed him on my bed and started crying and screaming. He kept doing the low loud cry everytime i would walk away from him. I called my mom from work yelling and crying telling her that he was dying, she was at mercy hospital so it took herabout 30 min to get home. She came into my room and picked him up and he kept crying and crying andhad no control of his body. twice his body arched back and did weird things and it scared me so bad.

When we went to the hospital they checked him out and he was really low in temp and he used to weigh 13 pounds..only weight 7.7…they wrapped him up in a warm blanket and rice socks. we were up there for awhile with him and they took blood from him and it would take about 40 min so me and mom went to ihop and went back and she said it wasnt as bad as it seemed, but she didnt know what was going on in the machine in the back and it kept flagging white blood cells…When we went back there, she confirmed he had leukemia and it looked advanced. They said they would see how he did over night.

We called the first time from home and they said they got his blood sugar up and he was starting to look around and trying to sit up but couldnt because he was so weak. He was more aware of what was going on and he was blinking more frequently. (at home that morning he wasnt blinking at all)

Then about 2 hours later they called and said….he was going into cardiac arrest and we needed to get down there. They said they had revived him so we could get down there. By the time we went down there his heartrate was 28 heart beats perminute. He was pretty much gone. He looked so gone. I havent cried that hard in so long. My mom picked him up and held him like baby and we used to always call him “Pretty Boy” and my mom whispered it into his ear. The doctor checked his heart andhe was gone. We didnt even have to put him to sleep.

It all happened so fast. and I am still in shock. He wasonly about 6 or 7 years old. Amazing baby boy and I am glad he had him. He adopted us when we first moved into the apartments when I was in 7th grade. His old owner left him. I am glad they did.

So yeah, thats my news BUT we adopted a new orange kitty that is exactly like him.!!!! the old owner who works at the vet we got him from got caught with 3 pets in her apartment and so had to give up one. His name is Vincent Gambini “Vinny” (we kept his oldname) and he is precious.

We are getting my old cat cremated and they did a paw print of his paw around a heart. Its those plaster things that you bake.

I had a sign from him too…..

He used to always wake me up in the morning and would jump on my bed and walk on me.

The day aftermy mom turned my light on and left and i felt and heard something jump on my bed and was walking on my legs…my eyes were closed when it happened and when I finally looked up, it stopped and nothing was there. My mom said none of the cats were in my room. I believe in things like that.

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