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Reeling after talking to the Vetrinarian [1]

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Date: 2023-02-20  

Our Jericho

Well my family is in shock.

Our Jericho has always had dental problems, comes of having a tough life as a cat on the street prior to us finding him at the shelter. So when February was half off dental visits at our Vet, we jumped at it. When we took him in this morning, we asked them to have a look at his back leg as well. There was some slight swelling and Jericho had worried it bloody.

Half an hour after we got home the Vet called. He was very concerned about the leg, and he wanted permission to cancel the dental work to do some tests and X-rays. We said OK, especially since he was very clear that he was worried about cancer.

Well it is cancer, and the x-rays showed that it is eating into the bone. The vet said that if the bone were not involved they could biopsy and figure out treatment from there, but with the bone involvement he feels that the only option is amputation.

Well our heads are spinning. This is Jericho ! The most active adult cat in the house, mouser extrordinaire, highest leaper, stealthiest food thief, the cat that keeps the kittens in line and teaches them how to HouseCat. He is only 10-11 years old.

On top of that, we have no idea how we are going to pay for this surgery. We looked up the cost online, anywhere from $600 to a couple of thousand depending, they will tell us when we pick him up this afternoon. Given our area, it is more likely to be somewhere near lower end of the spectrum. I have a couple of money envelopes tucked into my savings (aka a Harry Potter lunchbox), one is to upgrade our septic, the other is our Major Appliance Sudden Death emergency fund. I think the the appliance fund is destined to become the Major Cat Emergency medical fund, for now anyway. I’ll dip into the other if we have to.

DearHusband is researching 3D printed cat prosthetics, my daughters are researching tripod cat training and adaptive technology, and I am here spewing to you all. We all react in our own ways...

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