I would have liked to find you earlier. I'm approaching this forum in a sad moment of my life, probably the saddest moment of my life.March 22, 2017 - Moderator's Note -
This thread was started in the Crossing the Bridge Forum as it was assumed Lola's passing would come within a few days. Three weeks later and thankfully Lola is still here and this thread is being moved to the Health forum.
My beloved cat Lola, 16 years and 10 months, is going to leave me soon.
We fought many battles together and we always won, but this time the enemy is too strong and evil and we have lost the battle and the war.
She was diagnosed with a squamous cell cancer in her mouth in September, we did everything was possible to do, we went everywhere they told us to go. In the last two or three days I saw her going downhill and though she's still strong and determined she has some moments when she seems away from me.
Two weeks ago she had half of her tongue removed because it was necrotic, but she managed to go on. I am syringe feeding her since Christmas, but now she's less interested in food, and since last night she has stopped purring at me, though she's still looking for my presence, follows me around the house and wants to curl up on my lap when I'm on the couch.
I have to take the terrible decision in a day or two, I'm going to call the vet over to put her to sleep at home, in the place she knows the most and where she'll have no fear, but I'm terrified by what I will have to go through and by the absence of my faithful companion in my life. I feel I could die along with her.
I know that it's useless to ask others what to do, but I'm feeling lost at the moment and just need to speak out the pain that I have in my heart and in my stomach.
Sorry for my ranting, but I feel that my life will have no meaning in the future, I will feel void and useless.
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