It first started with a sneezy nose then coughing then to not even eating or drinking at all. I thought my adorable little kitty who had just turned a year old would have lived longer than...a year. I tried to do everything i could, even going in debt just trying to pay for her medical bills. Then after force feeding her for nearly 2 weeks and forcing pills and medicine down her throat and cleaning up her puke multiple times a day, she then began to grow some sort of mass in her nose.
I finally took her off the medicine, believing that God would just take care of the rest. My friends and i even started praying for her, and i truly believe that God helped her. She started to feed her self without my help.
Now, about that mass in her nose, on my third time taking Sakura to the vet, i showed her the mass in her nose and they didnt seem too bothered with it. Even after talking to them on the phone they still didn't seem too concerned with it.
Finally, once her nose was just getting too out of control, i decided to make another appointment (her fourth one). What a day that was. I dont even have time to write out that story....
Longgggg story written short, I found out that she has Leukemia and the mass in her nose was a tumor.
Now...i know what you're thinking, "Why'd you let it go so far? You should've let her go and put her down." Yeah, i totally would have if she hadn't been acting like a perfectly normal cat! Despite her illness, she was still walking around, eating and drinking, following me around, chasing flies, doing that silly and annoying thing she does when trying to open the door. She was perfectly normal! Her cold symptoms were gone and all that was really affecting her was that tumor, and after a while it seemed like it was going away.
Till this week. It started with her mouth and then she started to wring in pain, twisting her body and even flipping her self because she was in so much pain. I told my self that if she was in pain, i'd make that hard decision and let her go.
And so, there you have it. After 4 months, i had to put my adorable little kitty, Sakura "Saki" Boots to sleep today at 6:30pm.
Surprisingly, im doing pretty well. Sometimes in life you'll have to make tough decisions. Like where you're going to go for college, if you're willing to date that person and drop your walls that you've been building up your whole life, or when is the right, ethical time to put down your lovable little pet. Unfortunally, i've had to do that twice in the past year.
I'll just end with this. I will not own another pet...for a while.
Oh, and here are some cute pics of Sakura :3
<3 Saki
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