It is with sadness that I must tell you all that the fight to save Bella abruptly ended. She died on December 3rd, 2014 at 6:30 AM at the clinic where she was hooked up to an i.v. Dr. Vasquez Jr was there till Midnight checking in on her, he said there were many crisis patients there that night. He returned at 5am, and said she fell asleep and died at 6:30am. She had an xray the day before and they found a tumor in her kidneys. I noticed the last two days before she died she wasnt peeing, wasnt eliminating at all. She fell asleep in her litterbox twice.. and it was completely clean. She was wobbling on Monday, and on Tuesday before I admitted her to the clinic, she could only drag herself back into the cage. She was so strong and had gained weight, at a little over 8 lbs, and had good weight, muscle tone, and was alert, but the tumor was the problem, the evil tumor!! :( It prevented her from eliminating the sub q fluids and the food and drink she was imbibing. I believe that the toxins simply went into her blood stream then and killed her. Such a strong, noble, gentle, respectful, quiet, loving, kind, comical and intelligent girl had no business dying.. and I feel so bad I couldnt do more for her. On Thanksgiving she was doing REALLY WELL, walking around, jumping, looking out the door. She started vomiting that friday I believe and I mentioned it to Dr. Stan of Pasadena Pets. I consulted my cat group on Facebook and they suggested slipper elm, which stopped the vomiting. Nothing was open Sunday so I had to wait till Monday for her to be seen. They did a bloodwork on Monday but by Tuesday she was worse as we WAITED for the results, that Tuesday after i got the results I rushed her in to be on i.v.s... she stayed overnight.. and died in the morning. After I left her there Tuesday, I spent the rest of the day and night mourning, sobbing and talking about her. I didnt know if she would live or die and I was happy that she was getting an i.v. I hoped t his would clean our her kidneys and improve her renal numbers. I thought that the vomiting made her so weak, but when I admitted her on Tuesday Dr. Vasquez felt her body and said her left kidney was very enlarged. I knew this after I left her there and thats why I was so distraught. He said it might be a tumor.. the next day, he said it looked like a tumor.. but she had died. I cant believe my precious colorful, vibrant, loving female alpha cat is GONE!!! We lost the fight on this because of a horrible tumor, that had no place being there. Thank you all for your help in order to keep her alive. Thanks for caring and contributing to this cause. We have lost, and there is nothing now to do but hope she is ok somewhere else. I have not picked her up yet. I cant decide if I want to bury her or cremate her. Its expensive to cremate and I feel at odds with thought of my beloved Bella being nothing more than ashes and maybe teeth. I am going to do something. I think I will pick her up on Saturday.. and this will be very traumatic for me. Thank you so much for your hope, prayers, visualizations and love.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 03:20:59 +0000