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Thanks. Thanks for your response. It was especially hard, not knowing how he felt after I gave it to him. I remember the first night I did it, I cried so hard. About two hours after he got the dose, he closed his eyes and lowered his head and I thought oh.....oh.....he has to be feeling it. He didn't sleep with me that night. I have no idea what it feels like, never having it myself. He never had any side effects after that, but I was never sure what to expect...vomiting? ...but he never did. And then for the GI specialist to tell me oh, it will take two months to kick in. We didn't have that kind of time! And she told me there was no guarantees it would work.
I'll never forget Christmas Eve taking him to the ER in a blizzard and close to zero degrees out that evening and when they took him in the back to check him out, I sat down in the waiting room next to a woman reading a book and we ended up talking. She said that she had her cat in for constipation, which at the time, was why I had him up there. She casually said "Oh, yeah, I bring a book with me. That's the routine. I'm up here every couple of weeks getting enemas for my cat because of constipation. Every time I come up here it's $1,000." I did not want to become that woman, putting my cat through that, not getting answers, and spending that kind of money for a low quality of life.
It was a week ago today I said bye to Tim. As I write this, I would have been on my way home last week with an empty carrier. It's still so hard to believe that he's not with me. It's going to be a tough day today. I can feel tears behind my eyes. I miss my guy.
I'll never forget Christmas Eve taking him to the ER in a blizzard and close to zero degrees out that evening and when they took him in the back to check him out, I sat down in the waiting room next to a woman reading a book and we ended up talking. She said that she had her cat in for constipation, which at the time, was why I had him up there. She casually said "Oh, yeah, I bring a book with me. That's the routine. I'm up here every couple of weeks getting enemas for my cat because of constipation. Every time I come up here it's $1,000." I did not want to become that woman, putting my cat through that, not getting answers, and spending that kind of money for a low quality of life.
It was a week ago today I said bye to Tim. As I write this, I would have been on my way home last week with an empty carrier. It's still so hard to believe that he's not with me. It's going to be a tough day today. I can feel tears behind my eyes. I miss my guy.