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OPHELIA
It sometimes takes a village and little Ophelia owes her very life to one. She was picked up by animal control when her family decided she was no longer wanted and had been thrown outside to fend for herself. Another rescue was removing animals from this high kill shelter to place for adoption and removed her too. They saw this poor matted little cat and felt so sorry for her. She had everything going against her... She is black (99% of black cats never come out of a shelter alive), she is old (99% of old animals never come out of a shelter alive), she is blind, and sick... (99% of ill animals do not come out of a shelter alive) This rescue had heard of us and took her out in hopes that we would help her. She owes them her life.
She is very old (our vet says probably close to 20), Blind, and very very ill. We took her straight to the vet and her blood work shows she has some kind of massive infection going on. They said they have never seen blood values this high before. We had X-rays done trying to narrow down what kind of infection we are dealing with and they did not show what the problem is BUT it did show that she has an old gunshot wound and a bullet still in her (YES A BULLET!) This sweet old girl has had a very hard unfriendly past but seems to know that she is safe now. She is bone thin (as in almost starved death), has a melting ulcer in her eye (that is probably going to be part of the massive infection and has 3 kinds of eye medicines to have put in, which she takes like a champ) and she is having to take 4 different kind of oral medicines to try to get her better. IF she survives this, we will next get her a dental done (her teeth are in horrible shape and I would not be surprised if they did not hurt also and are probably also part of the infections going on)
Ophelia is a super sweet old lady who purrs immediately when you start petting her.
1/28/08 The blood work is unbelievable for this little girl. A high white count is 19 hers is 69!!!! Home with lots of antibiotics.
2/4/08 Back to the vet we go. Hoping the blood work is looking better. She is not eating on her own now. We are syringe feeding her every 3-4 hours.
Blood is work is improving, white count is 49. The antibiotics are kicking in. The vet is strongly suggesting euthanizing her. We are going to reassess it next week.
2/11/08 Back to the vet we go. She is very weak, very thin and I think she has had enough. I hope the blood work will be better.
The blood work is not improving. Her white count is 46. 1 week and only a gain of 3 points.
The vet again recommends euthanizing her and this time I agree. She is so weak, cries a lot, doesn't like being fed, it is time to let her go. We held her at the end and said good-bye.
We brought her home to bury her in our rainbow garden. Her grave is marked with a rose bush. At the end she knew someone cared enough to be there with her. She was a wonderful old lady and I draw comfort in knowing that we tried to give her a lot of love for her last 2 weeks of life.
