I wish my long blogging hiatus could have been broken by better news. Unfortunately, it’s with a heavy heart that I must report our kitty Sash passed away today. As you may or may not know, Sasha has been sick for a few months. It started out as a thyroid problem, for which she was taking medication. But she was also anemic.
Over the last few months, our once fat cat had become skin and bones, despite her still eating like a horse. A week or so ago her stomach started getting bloated and the vet removed quite a lot of fluid from her stomach. She also noticed a mass near her lung. The vet was almost positive it was cancer, probably lymphatic. Unfortunately the proceedures for finding out for sure would have been too hard on Sasha’s body.
So they put her on another medication and we debated about giving her kemo drugs. But today Sasha just seemed to collapse and was unable to stand or hold her head up for a half hour. We got her to the vet and she’d lost even more weight and was unable to hold her temperature. The vet said her systems were shutting down and only gave her maybe a couple more days.
It was really, really hard, but we felt it best to spare her from suffering through it, so we decided to put her to sleep. Sasha was 14, but we’d only had her for about six years. We wish we’d had her longer, but are thankful we were able to give her six good years. We truly enjoyed her and will always miss her.