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| Apollo's favorite place--curled up with Ryan |
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| I don't think he slept alone if he could help it :) |
We had to have Apollo put to sleep yesterday. We'd been through 2 weeks of antibiotics for what the vet thought was an ear infection, followed by a referral to a neurologist and a round of steroid medications that was supposed to help the suspected brain tumor. It would have cost $1500 to find out
if he needed surgery, which would cost $4000-$6000, and that wasn't going to work for our single-income family.
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| Raina & Apollo |
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| He always wanted to be with people |
It was awful to provide what was essentially hospice care to him for the past 3 weeks. He wasn't himself at all, though there were about 3 days where he was marginally better and would actually walk around instead of hunching with his face towards the ground, not moving. He didn't seem to recognize what was going on most of the time, and didn't purr much when being petted. He barely ate, and ended up peeing on the carpet several times this past weekend. It was very hard to spend 3 weeks full of hope, only to find that he wasn't responding to the medication.
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Apollo & Scooter getting to know each other
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| Apollo & Scooter |
Scooter and Raina (our two remaining cats) don't get along as well, and I think Scooter is rather lonely without his buddy Apollo. Raina has been acting overly affectionate lately as well. I think my heart hurts for them the most--now that the tough decision is behind me, I have a sick baby and a toddler with a staph infection to take care of, as well as the usual household chores, so life goes on. But these past few weeks have really sucked, and the decision on whether or not to end a creature's life is probably the hardest one I've ever had to make.
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| Apollo: Feb 5, 2003- Feb 27, 2012 |
