 April 11th, 2009
I moved this page from my main website to my blog. Four years later, I'm still having a hard time putting it together. I try to tell myself it's been long enough - that it's time to finish Miss Kitty's page. It is time. I'm going to gather up her pictures and have them put into digital form so I can publish them here.
I need to talk about her death first. The hardest part for me is that I'm still mad. I still cry - as in now. Miss Kitty didn't have to die - at least not when she did. I realize now that I will never get over it. Her death, I can get over - but the circumstances of it I cannot. I will never be able to put this anger behind me.
Miss Kitty was such a trooper during her sickness with a thyroid problem. She put up with ultra sounds, enemas, pokes, prods, operations, medicines and every other thing imaginable. She was so trusting and so patient - even when in pain. Her big eyes would look at me as if to say "OK mommy, I'll be good and let them do this. I trust you". In the end, she recovered. Over the next four months, she regained her energy. She ate well and played like a kitten. She was happy again. Everything was worth it.
Until her check up. When I picked her up to take her to the vet she stressed as soon as I put her in the car. Still trusting, but obviously stressed. I wish beyond all wishes I had never taken her that day. I wish I could rewrite the book. The vet did regular tests, blood tests, and tried to take an urine sample. The urine sample failed and the horrible sound of pain that Miss Kitty made will be forever engrained in my mind.
Over the next 24 hours Miss Kitty became very ill. On Saturday, the vet phoned me to tell me her blood tests were back and she was 100%. I told her she wasn't good and asked what happened with that needle. Her answer "oh nothing would have happened". I subsequently learned that by a slip of that needle, the vet punctured her bowel. Her bowel poisoned her. Saturday night, she died. She died because of a check up - a check up to find out she was perfectly healthy. It is my anger at the vet that I will never get over.
Enough about her untimely death. It is time to tell the story of Miss Kitty's life and finish the tribute to the beautiful little girl that shared her life with me for over ten years. |
