You all may have noticed the lack of posting the past few days. While I try to reserve the weekends for family, home cleaning, and time away from the computer, from time to time I'll post. However, this past weekend has changed our lives.
We adopted Lily from Project Purr in 2013. They had set up a pop-up stand in the mall. We weren't planning on going home with a cat. However, there they were... Tiger and Lily. Tiger took to me, Lily took to my husband. They were both laying together in their crate. We couldn't just take one... so they both came home. Those two were inseparable ever since.
Over the years they gained quite a few fur brothers and sisters, which y'all probably know about if you have been following my blog. You'll see them featured in reviews and such.
Saturday morning was going to be a regular day, however, just before 8 am I woke up to do my normal morning routine. I got up and was preparing to feed the 3 kittens I took in on Mother's Day after watching a few days and finding out mom abandoned them. I'm not sure of the reason. She's had kittens before and took great care of them. She started off great with these, then for whatever reason, she no longer wanted to care for them. There are a ton of reasons for this, but that's a different story.
I left out my bedroom only to go into the front room and discover blood on the floor. Then more in each of the litter boxes and Lily just laying on the cool tile. I checked her not knowing what happened to find it was coming from her. I called the vet office, which JUST opened, and brought her in.
Come to find out they suspected something with her heart as well as a mass in her abdomen. Her heart rate was extemely low and her body was cold. Blood wasn't flowing like it should. The vet didn't know if the two were related, but knew it wasn't good with everything happening all of a sudden out of nowhere.
The vet gave Lily a shot for pain and sent home some steroids and said to make her as comfortable as possible.
It was hard to watch. It was so unexpected. But she was with her two favorite fur siblings as well as my husband and me. I am the cat lady in the house, however, Lily had chosen my husband as her person. Watching her struggle for her last moment of life was tough, but I promised I wouldn't let her be alone. As soon as my husband told her it was okay and that we would be fine, that she could let go, she did.
While we have our 10 other cats + the 3 kittens I am caring for, losing Lily brought an emptiness to our home. A piece of our family is missing. Her bonded sister is just lost, but doing her best. I have a hallway where cats usually greet me in the morning and have toys as offerings at my door... which the other cats haven't done since Lily passed.
I'm watching her sister, Tiger, closely. Giving her extra love and attention. Lily was her person and they did EVERYTHING together. She still scoots over at the food bowl to make room for her sister to join her. It's so hard to watch. Thankfully Max is doing his best to cuddle with her. He would always lay with Tiger and Lily as those are his ladies as we would always say.
We're going day by day, but it's hard. I knew I would be sad the day one passed, but I wasn't expecting it to hit as hard as it did and still is.
So I am still posting, but it's not quite as much as I was just because I am trying to make it through this. It's a process. One minute I feel okay, the next is a breakdown. But I'm working through it. I'm hoping this post helps with the grieving process and is just a way to keep Lily's memory alive.
I have two goals:
- Take care of the new kittens - I need to bring them to the vet for shots and make sure they are clear to be around my other cats. It will cost $105 per cat. So $315 total to get them all taken care of.
- Find something custom to remember Lily.
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