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ibjennyjenny — A Letter to Mikey
Published: 2010-02-07 21:19:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 1065; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 30
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My Little Moo,This last week has been very difficult for me, I know you must be sick of me constantly hovering over you, looking in your eyes, checking your vitals, allowing my fear at times get the best of me. The vet said 3 days is what we would have to wait for your results...it felt like forever and my heart literally broke in two during those days. The thought that I could lose you overwhelmed me at times, I know you could not hear my cries but once again, you knew of my pain and as the tears rolled down my face, you caught them.
I am ecstatic that your test results are good, I'm sure you could tell as I picked you up and danced around the room with you in my arms....dancing with my Moo, once again.
I know you still don't feel all that great but whatever the problem, we know it will be manageable, you are not leaving me yet, at least not today and today is good.
I will do whatever I have to do to make sure you start feeling better, just be patience with me and allow me to freak out once in a while, after all...you are my best friend and the thought of losing you scares the hell out of me.
Almost seven years ago, you walked into my life and helped to stop my suffering, you helped to ease the pain of losing my baby and you brought sunshine back into my world. I owe you more than words could ever express, you are the reason I began to live again.
So the next time I have to give you a pill or I wake you up to make sure you are breathing for the fifth time in one day, know that it is only love...my love for you, my little Moo.
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It's a very beautiful cat. I want to get one exactly like this when I move out and get my own place
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aww im sorry to hear about your sweet little one feeling bad. i too have loved an animal like a child and unfortunately i wound up losing him. cherish him always
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Awwwwwwww
Glad he's ok...
You always know how to touch my heart...you n Mikey.....
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Mikey is fine Colt, or he will be at least. Thank you. The vet says he is fat. He is 14 1/2 pounds and constipated, poor guy. But I think he will be ok. He is disease free...yeah! Thank you kind man.
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No thanks needed, dear Lady. 
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Oh Anna, thank you. You have such a kind heart.
Mikey is better, getting there anyway. These last couple of months I have noticed a huge change in Mikey, increased appetite, weight gain, sleeping too much. I was really afraid he had diabetes but he was not drinking excessively, he just looked like he felt bad and we know our animals. I took him to the vet and held my breath. They screened him for cancer, checked everything physically, did an xray and then ran that all dreaded feline blood panel. With every cat that I have taken in and had this panel done on, it was always bad.
Well...Mikey's came back great and I was so thrilled, jumping up and down and dancing around the room with my kitty, he is disease free. I figured he should be but he has not been vaccinated against everything just the main ones, I don't like vaccinations and he is an indoor cat as the others are so there was no need to put his body through unneeded vaccinations until....Roo.
Yep..Roo came into our lives and for the first two weeks Roo stayed in the bathroom at night and I rotated in shifts so all cats had 'out' time. It was really difficult, running around with my can of lysol in between shifts spraying everything and then airing the room out because lysol is bad, bad, bad for cats but truly the only one that works for disease prevention. Roo tested negative for everything but she wanted to retest 4 weeks later because of his condition when he was first rescued. I couldn't do it for another 4 weeks and I allowed Roo to join the family. I was worried most about the calicivirus as this virus has so many strains and no vaccination protects against all strains. I prayed.
Mikey is fighting constipation, we are watching this closely, though the xray showed no real problem. The vet said he is...fat. Fourteen and a half pounds and she feels this is our problem, the free feeding has now come to an end, oh and he is a pissed off little Mikey I tell ya, Mikey likes his kibble. He has both soft and hard food but enjoys his kibble most. I have been adding pumpkin to his soft food and he seems a bit better, we will have to wait and see.
All I know is that the last week was one of the most difficult weeks I have had in my life. Waiting for those results was torture. Every time I looked at him I would cry, I was waiting to find out if my best friend was going to die and just the thought of him passing on, made my stomach hurt and broke my heart right in two, I'm just not ready for all of that, probably never will be. Thank you Anna.
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Sweetheart, I so empathise with you over how you feel about your little babes; I'm the same, and the thought of any of them suffering in any way is jut too much for me to bear, let alone that day when the end of their lives inevitably has to come - although it's just possible I may go before Molly and Murry do. The love I feel for them is like no other. When they look deep into the eyes and make that inner connection, there's simply nothing like it!
I'm so pleased to hear Mikey is medically ok after all, and am sure the constipation problem will pass with a little careful dieting. That's very hard to carry out when there's more than just the one cat!
Poor you having to go through all that awful agonising that you did
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Good News...Mikey loves his pumpkin and today he was awake for like 3 hours, last night I played with him with the laser light for a good two hours, this is a record I tell ya as he has been sleeping around the clock for some time now.
Pumpkin is doing the trick I think.
I knew you would understand...and for those who say he's just a cat I just don't talk to them LOL He is not just a cat, I refuse to put a "just" on anything that concerns him because he is my light. My daughter calls him her brother, I didn't tell her to call him that, she does it on her own, her big brother yet as he is older. LOL
Thanks Anna
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Sounds as though things are beginning to improve
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You are so sweet. Actually, Mikey is doing ok. These past couple of months though I wasn't so sure. He's been eating constantly, gaining weight and sleeping, sleeping, sleeping. I know, sounds like the average cat but not mine. All were classic signs of diabetes but no excessive drinking. I was sure he was really ill but all test came back great...thank God. The vet said he is....fat.
Yep, 14 1/2 pounds.
No more free feeding. He is fighting this constipation thing, he's going but it's rough. We will be watching this closely...
For a few days, waiting for the tests to come back, felt like an eternity, the results could have been bad and I always assume the worst in these cases because historically well...it has always been bad with other cats when we did the full blood panel but not Mikey and I feel more blessed than ever...we really danced.
He has been checked for cancer, lung related problems all diseases and he is clear,poop we can deal with. 
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oh my, I bet you did dance.. and I can see the looks Mikey was probably giving you while you were doing it too
We had to have those tests done with Elliott last year, when he had the surgery to remove that thing on his head. // i was SO HAPPY when those tests were ok. im glad you are getting him to eat a little pumpkin (well im assuming hes eating it) cause I have heard that is helpful for the poop thing :} I feel Mikey is my online cat friend, and i *know* how close you guys are..... so I'm super happy to hear hes alright.. 
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I'm so glad to hear your Mikey is getting better.
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