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    Guilty Feeling or Just Grief?

    I have a question for all you good people here. How many of you who still suffer from guilt and grief - years after losing your precious friend - never got a new cat? It might sound insensitive but all of you are here because you have a special bond with the feline species. My mother never got...
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    When a fighting spirit isn't enough - life is harsh and unfair - but you are not alone

    Yes, you are right. But it's just very hard for us to look at it like this at the moment. Right now it feels like we've been robbed of years together with him, but I hope in time when the pain slowly subsides we will begin to see the four years as a gift instead.
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    the heartache is unimaginable

    Four years ago I buried our cat... well, *my* cat. It always felt like she was mine, even though it was my wife who chose her at the shelter. Having gone through this ordeal I thought I would be better prepared for when I would be in a similar situation in the future. But it turns out you can't...
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    When a fighting spirit isn't enough - life is harsh and unfair - but you are not alone

    Thank you for your kind words. On the one hand I'm incredibly grateful for the four years together, because it is much more than we initially hoped for. And on the other hand I'm incredibly bitter because it really felt like she could be with us until she grows gray. That's true. I don't...
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    When a fighting spirit isn't enough - life is harsh and unfair - but you are not alone

    The last time I wrote on this forum was almost exactly four years ago. My original post is here: I know I probably made the right decision... but I feel terrible and devastated Quick recap: we had to put our eldest cat to sleep because her thyroid was shut, the cure which was an expensive...
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    I know I probably made the right decision... but I feel terrible and devastated

    I've been thinking alot in the past few days about what I could've done differently . If there is a way I could've made the therapy work. If it were my other cat then the answer is a definite "yes". She is a very gentle soul. But our eldest cat remained a feral cat at her core, at least when she...
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    I know I probably made the right decision... but I feel terrible and devastated

    I realized I hadn't posted a picture of her. Here you go, this is from our old apartment, less than six months after we got her and before the second cat joined our household to keep her company. We usually kept our daughter's room closed but sometimes it would be open and she'd sneak in there...
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    Life Hurts without Tigger

    What a terrific looking cat you had. You were extremely lucky that despite all his health problems he managed to live until a very respectable age. It is quite rare to see this kind of cat who is cooperating so well when it comes to treatments. We made the hard decision to let our eldest cat go...
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    Practical suggestion for dealing with loss

    It's now the fourth day since we lost our eldest cat to a thyroid disease and I've been going through the various stages of grief, not quite hitting "acceptance" yet. I've been trying to analyze my emotions, why it's hit me so hard, much worse than I had anticipated. I do think cats offer us...
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    I know I probably made the right decision... but I feel terrible and devastated

    I think you were correct, but I think she might have used the word "thyrotoxicosis" which is the same illness as I found out. It seems that the radioactive iodine treatment is indeed a safe and effective treatment option, but unfortunately because of the stringent rules around radioactivity no...
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    Lost my beloved Calico

    I took our eldest cat to the vet clinic yesterday for what I was sure was a returning infection, which got sorted out just fine last time. I assured her everything was going to be fine and we'd be back home in a few hours. It turned out her thyroid was very ill instead. I buried her with my own...
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    I know I probably made the right decision... but I feel terrible and devastated

    It was not hyperthyroidism because I would've recognized that name, it was another, longer word but for the life of me I can't recall the name. I was just too shocked to register the details. Everyone else: thank you for your kind words. Our other cat is a bit stressed and confused, wondering...
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    I know I probably made the right decision... but I feel terrible and devastated

    Yesterday evening I had to take one of the hardest decisions of my life and end the life of our eldest cat. We got home after midnight from the summerhouse where we buried her next to our two beloved dogs that we used to have. We planted tulips on her grave and left a candle on her final resting...
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