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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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It isn't fair (sad) ...
A lot of you ladies already know but over the weekend I lost my cat. The whole thing happened extremely quickly and just plain sucks! It's not fair!
Friday she was a healthy happy 7 1/2 year old cat ... on Saturday during breakfast I heard her crying and thought she had gotten herself locked in the closet. Went looking for her and found her paralysed from the waist down. Rushed to the animal ER and turns out she suffered a aorta thromboembolism.
Turns our she had a heart condition that typically isn't found until they have an episode. The recovery rate is 30% with weeks of hospitalization and the likelihood of reoccurance is 90% in the next 6 months. We decided after consulting with the vet that the best thing for her would be to put her down.
I keep second guessing myself that we should have done more? What if she beat the odds? The whole thing happened so fast ... maybe I should have brought her home and researched more and found a fix?
I miss her so much .. I keep hearing her .. when I opened my bedroom door this morning I expected her to come running in.
I am sorry for the debbie downer post this morning ... I just can't stop thinking about her and wanted to "vent" somewhere 
Re: It isn't fair (sad) ...
Oh Candace vent away!!! It's not fair, it never is! I'm so, so sorry you had to go through this over the weekend. You did everything you could - you were a great kitty mom and she had lots of love. Surrounding her in love is the best thing you could have done - prolonging her life with such a high chance of her being in pain and suffering again isn't right either.
BIG HUGS to you. I'm so, so sorry for your loss.
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Almost the exact same thing happened to my cat in 2009 - she walked into the living, make a noise like something scared her, jumped in the air, landed on her back, had a seizure and died. The vet said it was a condition with her heart - she probably had a clot or something that made it's way in. It was awful. She was a happy healthy, RIDICULOUSLY sweet cat one minute. And then dead in my arms the next. It was seriously incredibly traumatic. And the next day we were leaving for vacation. How much fun I wasn't! It's awful - you definitely did the right thing. Even if you hadn't put her down, it would have happened again. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but it would've, and it would've been even worse. Think of the pain your cat must have been in and how scared she must have been. You did the humane thing - the type of thing only someone who really loved her would have done. I'll be thinking of you. (((((((hugs)))))))
So sorry Candace. I had something similar happen with my rabbit a few years ago. We got home from work and she was just off. Took her to the vet and they found cancer. We put her down.
Don't second guess yourself, it was the best you could do. It will get better, and we are here for you.
*hugs*
I'm sorry, Candace. It's so hard to lose a member of the family like that. I can understand your guilt, too - I had to make the decision to put down one of our dogs last year when the vet did say it was possible to control things with medication (he was really old and had congestive heart failure; the medication had a lot of side effects for little chance of extending his life). Be kind to yourself - you did what you had to do when faced with an impossible choice and a potentially lower quality of life for her. *hugs*
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Oh Candace I am so sorry. Don't at all feel like you can't vent here...if not here than where can you?
I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers...