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May 24, 2005
Antonia boo
I saw Kelly online Sunday night and decided to say hi. I don’t know if I should have; she did, after all, want space and separation from me, and until Sunday night I had respected that need. But I hadn’t seen her online since February, and I guess I figured that her return meant that maybe she was ready to talk again.
She was glad to hear from me and talk with me, as it turns out. Antonia was really sick, and she was beside herself with worry. She (Antonia) hadn’t eaten hardly at all in almost a week, and she was moping around and acting listless. So Kelly scheduled an appointment with the vet for testing on Monday morning around 8:30.
She called me at 10:00, crying, to say that the vet suspected an intestinal tumor and was going to perform exploratory surgery that very morning to find out if it could be removed. Kelly called me back at 12:30, completely hysterical, saying that the vet had found too much damage and hemorrhaging and had decided not to wake Antonia up after the surgery. Kelly could go down there to say her goodbyes, and then they would euthanize her.
It all happened so suddenly, and now she’s gone. Poor little cat; she must have been miserable that last week. And Kelly is in for a terrible few weeks ahead of her as she grieves. I feel so sad for her. Antonia was only six years old, and Kelly loved her like a child.
Posted by alex at May 24, 2005 08:02 AM