Yesterday I had to make the heart wrenching decision to have my old girl (17 nearly) PTS.
I’m wracked with guilt it was quite sudden, and I’m left wondering if I’ve made the wrong decision.
The house isn’t the same and I’m bereft - I don’t think I’ve ever been this inconsolable even in human losses.
She (Molly) in February had the odd wobbly day that I put down to her age and being maybe arthritic... over the last couple of weeks when she’s been jumping onto the sofa she’s had to dig her claws in so her balance was off - she liked to sit in the back of the sofa and she found it hard to balance.
However over the last 3-4 days she was falling to the side, and her balance was terrible, she looked panicked in her eyes - her usual spark gone.
We gave her some whiskers pockets which were her thing - and when she ate them she stuck her tongue right out and I thought she was choking - there was a terrible cracking sound of her jaw maybe??
So yesterday I took her to the vets - they said their primary concern was her mouth which they couldn’t examine due to her pain - the vets words were “I’d have to sedate her to see what’s going on but then I don’t want to have to sedate her again to treat her, if want to scan her kidneys and she’s very arthritic”.
I expressed the fact that the main reason I’d brought her was due to the falling over...
Vet said it could be that they’d treat one thing and find another or exacerbate another issue and I fell too quickly I had to make the decision to have her PTS.
Now I’m thinking what if I could of treat her with painkillers or what if this or what if that...
When I rang the vet back to arrange collection of Molly, I did ask if she had managed to check her mouth during the process of her being sedated and she said that nothing was obvious so she was now wondering if she had arthritis in her mandibular joint.
So I brought her home and she is in the garden... I feel like a shell, my husband is the same as me...
Ds2 (7) keeps going to talk to her and kissed the ground this morning.
I know this is abit of an outpouring and well done if you’ve got this far.
The house is just so empty - I keep expecting her to come miaowing round the corner.
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charliesmama · 17/05/2020 19:58
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