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Rainbow Bridge. ((Sad Little Vent ))
2 years ago
The other day 3/15/23 I had let my sweet baby Reila, kitty, be put to sleep to cross over to join all the other furbabies.
She lived a very well-spoiled 10-13 year life, I'm unsure how old she really was when I first got her. However, she was still a Kitten, she ran up to us while we were walking to a Walmart for Black Friday and she choose us, I still remember her scaring me; it was pretty dark outside and there were raccoons and possums in the area; as we heard grass being stomped and then suddenly something climbing straight up me to rest on my shoulder as she began meowing up a storm!
We turned around and set a cat carrier out with some towels and put some food and water out for her as well and we went back on the trip to Walmart, the entire time we were at Walmart I couldn't stop thinking about the little kitten, and how I hope she would stay there.
Little over an hour had passed and we made it home she came bolting out of the little cat carrier we had meowing up a storm to us and at that point, I was like YES! YES! YES! THE KITTEN STAYED!
At that point, we took her inside and kept her in a separate bedroom due to the other cats and we slowly let them smell the new one and introduced them to the new one.
We talked about names shortly after taking her in and decided that Reila was fitting due to the song we were listening to when she came up to us, this was Reila by The Gazette's song link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh7Clcc77bg
Ever since we raised her, my mom took ownership of her since I already had a cat, I was a bit heartbroken when I moved states away from Reila because I was attached to her so much but I already had another cat, plus an axolotl to tend to as well. This was back in 2019 when I moved states, in 2020 December I ended up being reunited with Reila again, and ever since then, she slept on me in my room no matter what.
It wasn't till late 2022 when she started forming a small mass apparently on her mammary glands
I tried to do what I could but had no funding whatsoever to take her to a vet and was being declined for credit cards, till early 2023, I was approved for Care Credit for only $1,400 which I took her to a vet and they quoted to be $5,500 for the surgery and everything but they said there was A LOT of cons to this surgery than pros, I called Care Credit and tried to get my limit reached but was only approved up to $4,000
I got in touch with them and asked if there was anything else I could do and the vet told me to reach out to a few other places they listed that might offer cheaper services.
But they had also informed me of the other bad news as well, they could feel smaller masses in her tummy from her upper chest all the way down to her crotch.
After taking her to that vet they gave me a quote for a little under $2,000 to which I agreed, but they said they were very skeptical a bit themselves on the surgery due to how much was being done, which was pretty much removing both sides of mammary glands plus spaying her. I was supposed to have this surgery done on 3/20/23 and started looking up but also felt guilty for me trying to save and extend her life just a bit longer for my own selfishness of keeping her alive for my own joy but knew deep down she'd be suffering for awhile.
The vets told me they were 95% sure it was cancer-related but couldn't fully prove it till they did the surgery,
but for some time my poor baby was doing the thousand-yard stare and wouldn't react to much, at times we'd come up the stairs and she'd just sit there like no one was even coming, I'd call her name a few times and she wouldn't even react, plus she was slowly starting to avoid people. So at that time, I started feeling like she was starting to succumb to everything and it was probably only a matter of time before it happened.
I struggled with the choice of everything for two weeks taking it out on myself, from the back and forth of just do the surgery she'll be better to she's suffering do the right thing pretty much, it was rough, but I had made the call...
It doesn't get any easier no matter how many furbabies you have, but I can safely say she's no longer suffering and she's across the rainbow bridge and is playing with all the other kitties.
She lived a very well-spoiled 10-13 year life, I'm unsure how old she really was when I first got her. However, she was still a Kitten, she ran up to us while we were walking to a Walmart for Black Friday and she choose us, I still remember her scaring me; it was pretty dark outside and there were raccoons and possums in the area; as we heard grass being stomped and then suddenly something climbing straight up me to rest on my shoulder as she began meowing up a storm!
We turned around and set a cat carrier out with some towels and put some food and water out for her as well and we went back on the trip to Walmart, the entire time we were at Walmart I couldn't stop thinking about the little kitten, and how I hope she would stay there.
Little over an hour had passed and we made it home she came bolting out of the little cat carrier we had meowing up a storm to us and at that point, I was like YES! YES! YES! THE KITTEN STAYED!
At that point, we took her inside and kept her in a separate bedroom due to the other cats and we slowly let them smell the new one and introduced them to the new one.
We talked about names shortly after taking her in and decided that Reila was fitting due to the song we were listening to when she came up to us, this was Reila by The Gazette's song link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh7Clcc77bg
Ever since we raised her, my mom took ownership of her since I already had a cat, I was a bit heartbroken when I moved states away from Reila because I was attached to her so much but I already had another cat, plus an axolotl to tend to as well. This was back in 2019 when I moved states, in 2020 December I ended up being reunited with Reila again, and ever since then, she slept on me in my room no matter what.
It wasn't till late 2022 when she started forming a small mass apparently on her mammary glands
I tried to do what I could but had no funding whatsoever to take her to a vet and was being declined for credit cards, till early 2023, I was approved for Care Credit for only $1,400 which I took her to a vet and they quoted to be $5,500 for the surgery and everything but they said there was A LOT of cons to this surgery than pros, I called Care Credit and tried to get my limit reached but was only approved up to $4,000
I got in touch with them and asked if there was anything else I could do and the vet told me to reach out to a few other places they listed that might offer cheaper services.
But they had also informed me of the other bad news as well, they could feel smaller masses in her tummy from her upper chest all the way down to her crotch.
After taking her to that vet they gave me a quote for a little under $2,000 to which I agreed, but they said they were very skeptical a bit themselves on the surgery due to how much was being done, which was pretty much removing both sides of mammary glands plus spaying her. I was supposed to have this surgery done on 3/20/23 and started looking up but also felt guilty for me trying to save and extend her life just a bit longer for my own selfishness of keeping her alive for my own joy but knew deep down she'd be suffering for awhile.
The vets told me they were 95% sure it was cancer-related but couldn't fully prove it till they did the surgery,
but for some time my poor baby was doing the thousand-yard stare and wouldn't react to much, at times we'd come up the stairs and she'd just sit there like no one was even coming, I'd call her name a few times and she wouldn't even react, plus she was slowly starting to avoid people. So at that time, I started feeling like she was starting to succumb to everything and it was probably only a matter of time before it happened.
I struggled with the choice of everything for two weeks taking it out on myself, from the back and forth of just do the surgery she'll be better to she's suffering do the right thing pretty much, it was rough, but I had made the call...
It doesn't get any easier no matter how many furbabies you have, but I can safely say she's no longer suffering and she's across the rainbow bridge and is playing with all the other kitties.
