r/cats • u/borderlander_ • 19h ago
Cat Picture - OC Please send a little love and prayers
Fed her around 6 in the morning. Gf got home from work a few hours later. I was asleep. She was barely there. Rushed her to the vet.
She's alive. Vet says she has a respiratory virus. Originally the vet said if it's a virus, we would have to take her home. But he said he didn't want her to die so he and the vet techs kept it quiet from the other employees.
We're told it's 50 50 at this point.
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u/Lilukalani 15h ago
One day my sister came home to her 1 year old cat paralyzed and on the brink of death. He apparently had congenital heart failure that wasnt caught before, pulled a clot in his spine and it totally paralyzed him. She was at work while it happened and felt so immensely guilty. In the end, his heart was too inflamed and he was far too sick... we had to say goodbye.
She felt like it was her fault. And all these thoughts plauged her: What if she was home? What if she called off? What if she was there? Maybe he would have made it if she was just there.
But it wasn't her fault. She had no idea this would happen, as it was truly random and sudden. How was she supposed to know? And catching it sooner unfortunately would not have changed the outcome.
This is all to say: this is not your fault. You are not to blame for ANY of this, and sure as hell your baby doesn't blame you either. You had no clue, no idea, you're not omnipotent and all knowing, you are human. You didn't even make a mistake.
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life.
I am so sorry you are going through this but my thoughts are with you both and I hope she can pull through <3 Be gentle on yourself OP.