Rest in peace my beautiful girl
Since the beginning of the year our elderly cat Jade had been losing weight, and we couldn’t figure out why. At first we thought that it may be a dental problem because we noticed that her teeth were grinding while she was eating. So we switched her to soft food, which she loved and ate plenty of. Still she continued to lose weight.
We kept going back to the vet trying to figure out why she was losing weight (without any conclusive reason). Then about 3 weeks ago we found out that she had cancer. An egg sized tumor was on her liver, and our options were to either get a biopsy (and put her through the misery of chemotherapy to extend her life by 6 months) or try to make her comfortable while she was with us. I opted to keep her comfortable, and spare her the pain of chemo.
Yesterday, I made the decision to have her put to sleep. Jade was declining quickly, and I could tell she was in pain. She wasn’t eating hardly anything, even when I would feed her by hand, and the only water she would drink was if I lifted her into the tub to drink from the faucet.
Since cats don’t get obituaries, I’m using this platform to write about her.
Jade was my rock when I had hit rock bottom. She got me through my divorce, and was a friend when friends were a rare commodity in my life. Jadey cat was very talkative, and would always respond when I asked her anything (I gave her the nickname of my “yes cat”). She loved to play “catch the hand” and would meow at me when she knew I was working too hard on my studies and needed a “play break”.
Jade was whimsy and fun when I had little to laugh about, and her perfect round eyes reflected back on what she saw as the best in me.
Jade was one of a kind, a perfect cat who never misbehaved, and always loved her people to the very end.
We love you Jade, you spoke your mind and stole our hearts. Goodbye baby…
