sick kitty
My poor cat. Thanks to an interction between some meds, we ended up rushing him to the emergency vet (yes, there are ERs for pets) at midnight on Monday. I won't get into the gross details. After 24 hours of vet care, he's starting to bounce back...he knocked everything off the top of the fridge at 4am and started a wrestling match with our other cat at 7am, which are all good signs. He's still kind of weak & tired though, and looks rather pathetic. They had to put him on IV, so he has this shaved area on his forearm. My boy says that it looks like a buffalo wing that someone took a bite out of (black cat w/ white undercoat, so it's a lot different in color).
So, when people told me that I looked really tired this week, and I tell those people why, the response from everyone with kids is "you think that's bad, wait until you have kids!". Yeah, ok, I get it. You don't need to tell me this everytime I have a sick pet. I remember my own childhood; I was sick and/or injured a lot and spent a lot of time making my parents worry. I know that it's twice as hard to have kids. The thing that bothers me most is the condesending way some people say it. Just because I don't have a small human to look after doesn't mean my worries are inferior to yours. I don't have kids, I have cats. They're my kids right now. I'm allowed to be upset and worry about every little weird thing they do after I take them to the ER. I'm allowed to have a friend babysit the cat the day after he gets home from the vet if I have to go somewhere, just in case he has a relapse. And I'm allowed to mourn just as much in the event that the pet passes (he didn't, I'm just saying this from expereince).
So, when people told me that I looked really tired this week, and I tell those people why, the response from everyone with kids is "you think that's bad, wait until you have kids!". Yeah, ok, I get it. You don't need to tell me this everytime I have a sick pet. I remember my own childhood; I was sick and/or injured a lot and spent a lot of time making my parents worry. I know that it's twice as hard to have kids. The thing that bothers me most is the condesending way some people say it. Just because I don't have a small human to look after doesn't mean my worries are inferior to yours. I don't have kids, I have cats. They're my kids right now. I'm allowed to be upset and worry about every little weird thing they do after I take them to the ER. I'm allowed to have a friend babysit the cat the day after he gets home from the vet if I have to go somewhere, just in case he has a relapse. And I'm allowed to mourn just as much in the event that the pet passes (he didn't, I'm just saying this from expereince).