Not the best of days.....

We recieved bad news yesterday in regards to our cat. Actualy it just seemd like a really bad day for everyone around me since my sisters car broke down, a friend is terribly sick while they are moving to another apartment.... I think wednesday thinks its the new monday or something...

So around newyears one of our cats Móri hurt his leg, after what we think was climbing and when jumping down slipped and hit the ground hard, so on 2. janary we went to see the vet who took pictures and saw nothing wrong. Sent us home with some pain-killers and to return if he didn't get any better. Yesterday at noon I went again to the vet with Móri since his leg had not gotten better and he was still limping around the house. The doctor decided to take more pictures and gave Móri some drugs to sleep as he was in alot of pain. After a while she called on me into the room they view the X-rays. I knew it was serious since she obviously wanted me to see for myself what was wrong. She sat me down and showed me the pictures taken 2.january and the ones she just took. On the earlier ones they showed nothign out of the ordinary, nothing broken, fractured or anything wrong. But on the second ones it was horrible. The ball at the end of the bone that goes into the hip-socket "thing" was broken... and for the last 3 weeks my little baby has been in terribly pain since the bone and the ball have been rubbing together explaining why he limps and has been wanting to cuddle with me so much. So they need to put him into surgery where they will take that "ball" and replace it so the leg will work propperly. Only 3 weeks since this happens and she already saw that he had not been using the leg and it was starting to "shrivel" up so to speak.
It wasn't a question IF he had the surgery or not, he's going next Thursday. We could have booked before the weekend but the surgery is going to be expensive ranging from 50.000 isl kr (ca. 300$) to 80.000 isl kr (600$) so we wanted to take the time until thursday to solve how we are going to pay for the operation. I was really touched that my sister said the family would pitch in to pay for it. Now it wont be AS expensive but I'm going to have to deal with the bank with how I'm going to pay for it as we are in enough money trouble as it is with the apartment and car.

What worries me the most is that there is always a slight risk when animals have to have surgery. The stress and the anastecia can make it so the animal doesn't wake up again which really has me worried. After I heared he needed surgery I cried for like an hour out of worry and because my baby has been in all this pain for 3 weeks and I've not had a clue about it. If I react like this to cats...how will I be once I have children?!
I know some people don't get the bond that is created sometimes between owner and pet but it really irks me when I heared something an employee at my boyfriends kindergarden said when she heared the news: "Why don't you just put him to sleep?" Yeah.... ok so next time your KID has to have surgery why don't we just put HIM to sleep to avoid being bothered with this whole mess and having to pay anything.... a heartless woman who works at a kindergarden! I'm NEVER going to put my children there if they are to be taken care of by such a heartless person....

So....thats the gist of what has happened yesterday. I mentaly broke down and just sat in my sister couch with dried tears in my face for hours until my boyfriend came to pick me up. Now I'm just going to take the best care of him till the surgery and hope for the best.


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