The Miller Place

It’s been a long time since I did any cat blogging. I can’t promise what I didn’t deliver before (regular cat blogging), but with five cats, there’s usually something going on… Take Wednesday. Please.

Sammi Two-Stitches

A loyal friend for over 14 years.

Toonces has been a champ for a long time now, but diabetes and renal failure have been progressively wearing him down – both physically and mentally. With a long, slow cronic disease, there will never be an obvious no-choice time, but bad times will increase and good times will fade away. When the balance is permanently tipped…

Last night, Kathy picked him up from the lower landing and brought him upstairs. When she set him down to walk, his back legs gave out. He wasn’t able to get up and stay up, and he just laid down with a heavy sigh. We took him to the vet’s. Dr. Tope was still there at 8:30pm. We were able to go in back with him as he checked Toonces out. He was dehydrated and possibly hypoglycemic. While Dr. Tope administered fluids and offerred Toonces food (which he accepted graciously while standing there wobbly and hooked up to an IV), we talked.

Dr. Tope said Toonces has been getting tired, especially in the last few weeks (he went in every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for rehydration by IV). Dr. Tope felt Toonces was becoming clinically depressed. Kathy and I have both seen it too, the more so since we knew how little time was left and we made the most of it. We talked about it and decided to bring Toonces home.

Today, he got to eat as often and as much as he wanted. I spent time with him on the couch again. This evening, Dr. Tope came to the house at our request to put Toonces to sleep humanely and in familiar surroundings.

I already miss him.