RIP Anekin

[jeshyr]

We had to put dearest Anekin cat to sleep today.

He was the king of the whole world and he was an awesome friend to seedy and then to me for many years.

… and as much as it can never be "time" or "okay" or anything like that, it was time and it will be OK. The vets were 1000% awesome and supportive and helpful too, for which I am massively grateful. Thank you St Kilda Veterinary Clinic.

I already miss him tons. We’re having fish for dinner tonight in his honour.

I just wanted you all to know.

Love
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[synecdochic]

oh, honey, i'm so sorry for the necessity, but i'm glad the experience was as peaceful as it could be.

he was a Good Cat. i'm glad i got to meet him.

[jeshyr]

He was awesomest. Like I wrote - king of the world ... or so he thought, anyway!!

I wanted to say an especially huge "thank you" to you for what you wrote about in yesterday's post. Aside from being useful in and of itself it made me go web searching (why didn't I think of that before?) and I read a bunch of really useful pages last night about planning for the end, coping emotionally, dealing with guilt, etc. While I was reading them there was a bit of me self-observing saying "Silly! You won't need this for AGES yet, stop panicking!" but your words were just enough push that I sat for a few hours and read, with Ani sitting on my chest.

So when I got up this morning and he was so much worse, I was far far FAR more able to deal with it and make decisions and cope than I would have otherwise been. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I can't possibly put into words how valuable that reading suddenly was this morning when everything crashed down on my 10x faster than I had really expected it to... Because of thinking about it, I was able to say to the vet "This is the amount I could spend, maximum, what would it change if I spent it?" and that really helped a TON. Also some of what I had read was about how to know when your cat was nearing the end, so I understood the import of things I would not have otherwise really understood.

So yeah... talking about hard stuff = priceless (as the master card adverts say) and appreciated massively. I shall have to hug you if we're ever occupying the same map coordinates at the same time again :) <3

[synecdochic]

oh, i'm so glad i could help! i've had a few long hard thinks about things myself, since gabe is nearing the time when i'm probably going to have to make hard decisions quickly sometime within the next few years as well (we've already had to make a few), and it's really helped for me to be able to articulate my views on senior care to my (awesome) vet (who is totally supportive, the other vet in the practice is kind of a pushy judgy asshat sometimes but our vet is amazingly supportive of making your care decisions ahead of time and sticking to them).

hooray for being able to make decisions without being motivated by guilt but by what was best for ani. and be sure to be extra kind to yourself over the next few days, because even if it was easier than it could have been, that doesn't mean it's easy!