My beloved cat, Sgt Pepper, snuck out while in heat a few months back (yeah, I know, "should have gotten her fixed!" – but she went into heat while I was moving, and it wasn't an option at the time). Long story short, she got pregnant. Everything was moving, reluctantly, according to plan until yesterday morning, when her water broke, and I started preparing for the birth.
Which never happened.
More water came, and then blood started coming as well. This afternoon, I took her to the MSPCA, where they ran all sorts of tests on her, and determined that the large mass in her belly was not a bundle of squirming adorable kittens, like we all thought it was. It was a single nonkitten, which died very early in the pregnancy, and failed to miscarry through. The reason she's been getting bigger and bigger is because her body thinks she's still pregnant, and has been filling her uterus with fluid to counteract what's been a slowly-growing infection resulting from carrying around a dead baby. Her body, still convinced it was pregnant, is now going through sympathetic labor.
The diagnosis was simple: she may pass the unkitten, but her organs are irreparably destroyed. Without the fluid to buffer it, the nonbaby and the uterus both need to come out tomorrow, or the infection will turn to sepsis, and kill her by Monday.
Thankfully, she is merrily oblivious to all of this for the time being, but, according to the vets, by the time I need to rush her back there tomorrow morning, she won't be, and I need to get her there early to make sure she's strong enough to undergo surgery before bacteria poison her blood.
pictures:
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The vet said it would come out to be around $1,200. The thing is, I am a poor college student & don't have much money for vet bills and the like. I am trying everything to get money for her, but I was wondering if anyone could help by just sending me donations through paypal: [email protected]
www.paypal.com
I would appreciate it so, so much.
--Amanda
Which never happened.
More water came, and then blood started coming as well. This afternoon, I took her to the MSPCA, where they ran all sorts of tests on her, and determined that the large mass in her belly was not a bundle of squirming adorable kittens, like we all thought it was. It was a single nonkitten, which died very early in the pregnancy, and failed to miscarry through. The reason she's been getting bigger and bigger is because her body thinks she's still pregnant, and has been filling her uterus with fluid to counteract what's been a slowly-growing infection resulting from carrying around a dead baby. Her body, still convinced it was pregnant, is now going through sympathetic labor.
The diagnosis was simple: she may pass the unkitten, but her organs are irreparably destroyed. Without the fluid to buffer it, the nonbaby and the uterus both need to come out tomorrow, or the infection will turn to sepsis, and kill her by Monday.
Thankfully, she is merrily oblivious to all of this for the time being, but, according to the vets, by the time I need to rush her back there tomorrow morning, she won't be, and I need to get her there early to make sure she's strong enough to undergo surgery before bacteria poison her blood.
pictures:
http://bink.shoegaze.net/Anya%20and%...w/DSCF0107.JPG
http://216.218.248.205/datastore/97/...885d019f34.jpg
The vet said it would come out to be around $1,200. The thing is, I am a poor college student & don't have much money for vet bills and the like. I am trying everything to get money for her, but I was wondering if anyone could help by just sending me donations through paypal: [email protected]
www.paypal.com
I would appreciate it so, so much.
--Amanda