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It's Valentine's Day evening, and we have just returned from a day in Lafayette, watching elementary students perform a moving concert at Circle the State with Song. We pull the covers up on the bed to spend some time playing with the rattietons, and notice that there's something invisible keeping the blankets from pulling up.
Oh no, Little One's gotten ahold of a spool of thread. Where did she even get it? I must have accidentally left it out after I fixed Bobby's coat last time. Stupid!
We wind up the thread and find that it's been through almost every room in the apartment. We check on Little One. She's fine, alert, and as interested as usual in watching the ratties run about on the bed while we play with them.
The vomiting starts early in the morning. We know what's wrong. We bundle a now scared and hurting kitty into the car and drive her to the Purdue emergency animal hospital.
At the hospital, we're quoted $2,000 - $3,000 for surgery. Her prognosis is excellent, but she needs to have the thread removed immediately. We put down the required deposit of $1,000.
A call from the surgeon later that night informs us that she needed one incision in her stomach and five in her small intestine. Don't let your cat play with string, folks.
Little One is still recovering and hasn't started eating yet. Once she's eaten and we're sure there are no complications, we will pick her up and bring her home. Little One will have her own personal recovery room where she can rest without fear of tearing her sutures open.
At discharge, we need to post the remainder of the surgery and hospital fees, anywhere from $1,000 to $2,000. Please help us with these costs. We want to get her home and recovering in a place that she's comfortable in--we want to get her out of the scary hospital where she's alone and afraid--as soon as possible.
Please just donate what you can. $1, $5, whatever little bit you can spare will help us with this.
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