Painful Love-Benji Stories

  What a crazy week, and the ride is not over… Our beloved pet, Benji managed to get himself very very sick.

A blocked urinary track, something I had no idea about caused havoc in his life and ours. After a day outdoors, he came home a very very sick cat.

Just like children, pet do not come with any instructions and have their own special personalities. Benji has been the proverbial free spirit, in fact, so much so we have never been able to keep a collar on him for more than two to three weeks.

Well, once I realized how uncomfortable he was I took him to the vet and what followed was a week of extreme chaos, with suggestions ranging from humane euthanasia to weeks in the emergency room.

Well, last night for better or worse, I came home with a very weak and fragile creature, a shell of his former self who refused to eat. He has been drinking water, but is still very listless and not responding. My daughter was in Washington, DC attending a leadership program and came back to the horror that was Benji in his current state. I explained to her what the vet has told me in the gentlest possible terms that while he has a shot, he may also not make it.

This picture is his first picture, post return.

Love is a strange thing, it touches you and connects you in the strangest possible way. Who knew this little creature that had brightened our home and lives for the past seven years would end up in such a fragile state? Please join me in rooting for Benji.