Hmm!
See, you guys didn’t even know Lailee got sick, that’s how out-of-the-loop you are as my readers. It’s all my fault.
Anyway, two days ago (middle of the night ~2am) Lailee vomited a little bit and suddenly collapsed on the floor! I thought she may be choking so I pried her mouth open to look for a blockage and there I noticed her gums were GREY! Like zombie-skin grey! At that moment, I began my total-and-complete-freak-out session, wailing and crying for Lailee to be okay. I haven’t cried so hard in a long, long time. We immediately rushed her to the vet (thank God for them being only seconds up the road) and they decided to keep her overnight for tests and monitoring.
We went back home and I worried about Lailee, thinking of anything we may have done to make her sick, anything she ate or got into… A few hours later, the vet (bless her) called and said that Lailee has a low white blood cell count and they don’t know why but they wanted to keep her another day. God, you know I stayed up all night and half the morning sick with worry, wondering if she was going to die in the night, alone in a strange place…
THANK GOD she did not die then, and after two nights away from home she is BACK with us and Squig is so relieved to be with her mommy again.
[We still aren’t sure what it was but apparently an infection or something…]
It is very sad when a pet falls sick. I lost my dog many years ago and I still see him in my dreams. I wish your Lailee good health.
Aww :-( sorry.. I know it’s so hard to see… I lost my dearest cat only a few years ago and, like you, I still think of her a lot…
Lailee says “thanks!”
(I don’t know if it’s pathetic commenting on things that were posted a year ago, but…) My guinea pig died ten years ago this fall, and I still think of him! I kinda wanna get a new one, too, but I’m not sure I’m ready for another eight years of responsibility…
At least with my first (and so far only) guinea pig, I could always fall back on my Mom! 