As some of you may remember, we lost one of our cats (Charlie) last year - in January. As some of you may also know, I'm very attached to our pets and consider them as nothing less than part of our family.
Well, his surviving "step-sister" (Bonnie) has become very ill over the last 2-3 days and is currently in the hospital with chronic renal failure (and a few complications from it). They are doing what they can to stabilize her and to get her eating normally and comfortable but we're also told that due to the degraded kidney function (her kidneys are small relative to her body size and have been damaged due to previous infections, stones, etc.) she has only a 40% chance of surviving the coming month. Needless to say, this can't come at a worse time and we're devastated by the prospect of possibly losing her. She's been a great pal and a great friend with nothing but unconditional love and affection for my wife and I.
I hope to have her home Saturday and we'll see what happens after that - hopefully a long period of continued happiness and companionship while we do what we can to prop up her kidney function with at-home treatments and such. But it doesn't look good, and frankly I don't know how many more "kicks when I'm down" like this I have to take.
The good news is she looked a lot better this AM when I went to visit her. I'm hopeful, but it sounds like things are going to be very rough going over the next few weeks and I'm preparing for the worst. Any encouraging or positive thoughts/prayers/good wishes/whatever right now would be appreciated. Thanks.
Here's a few pictures of my princess:
