Our precious Kitty....

Last night while I was in the bath I heard a noise, but thought it was just a door being closed...so I carried on in the bath and then afterward went downstairs to watch a bit of tv...I noticed Kitty lying on the couch and I called her thinking she would come over and sit on my lap as she usually does, but instead she just kind of lifted her head and looked at me...

It was then that I noticed her nose looked kind of dark, instead of a pink nose she usually has...

I immediately knew it was blood and called for Jason straight away (I was too scared to pick her up)!

He picked her up and I said to him that I think she had fallen from the ledge between the staircase! Jason put her on the floor and she couldn't even stand...she kept falling to the side... Jason picked her up again and gently pulled on her legs to see if they were perhaps injured but she had no obvious signs of broken bones or anything...she just sat there....I told him to go to our landlords and ask about taking us to the vet (this was around 10:30pm)...

While Jason was at the landlord, I went to look at the bottom of the stairs where I suspected she had fallen...and there was blood all over the floor! I was horrified...

Our landlords, Oliver and Lucy, took Jason and Kitty to the vet while I stayed at home with the kids...

Jason called me from the vet to say that she had a concussion and suspected punctured lung... Jason arrived home a little while later with Kitty...the vet had given her an injection and has told us for the next 3 days she is "critical"...we have to monitor her and keep checking if her skin starts feeling "crunchy"....(kind of like air bubbles) and if this happens or if her condition deteriorates at all in the next 3 days we are to take her back to the vet, possibly for an operation...

I sat with her this afternoon and just cried...I sobbed my heart out! This is my baby! We rescued her when she was barely a week old...her eyes and ears were still closed and she still had her umbilical cord attached! I hand fed her every 3 hours...she is our baby...and to see her lying there so helpless is so sad! I just wish she would get up and be her "normal" self again...chasing the kids around and then turning around so the kids can chase her! Coming when we call her (just like a dog...first time I have had a cat like that!)....and sleeping with me at my feet....it now also seems like she has lost her hearing (her one ear has dried blood all over it)...today I was clicking my fingers and clapping behind her ears and she didn't even flinch...her ears didn't move at all...hopefully it is just due to the concussion and once that goes, hopefully her hearing will be fine...and because of the concussion (I am assuming), the pupils of her eyes are two different sizes and she can't really stand properly...she just seems to fall over all the time....

We are hoping she really pulls through this and will be back to our "Hello Kitty" again soon!

"Hello Kitty"... March 2007

"Hello Kitty"... in recent months ... she really loves to climb into bags!