Eleven days ago in the middle of the night, Molly was sleeping next to me soundly, when Kota decided to leap on the bed and he landed smack on top of her!  I woke up to a piercing, horrific meow for help that was squelched by the weight of the dog on top of the kitty. By the time I got my bearings and turned on the light, Kota was back by the door looking ashamed of himself and Molly was flat on the bed. I gently picked her up, she was so flat, I was afraid she was gone. I put her on the floor and carefully sat down next to her as I could see, although her breathing was shallow, she was breathing. She could only take two steps towards me at a time, before she collapsed. She would then raise her head and look at me and try to get up and fail. I spent the rest of the night with her on the floor and rushed her to the vet in the morning.

Initially, they did not find anything alarming that jumped out at them during the exam. I was given pain meds to rub on her ears and they gave her an anti inflammatory shot. I wanted them to do films and bloodwork, but it wasn’t my normal vet. They did not see a need to add to my  bill. So we went home.

Molly never stabilized and she started eating air. (I don’t know how else to explain it.) She started gradually hiding from me in the house. Which, she is a lap kitty and if my lap is available,  she is on it. She is also a very talkative little girl. She tells me constantly about her day, she yells at me should I take to long to feed her. She never stops talking to me until she is lying on my lap. In the last two days she has been as quiet as a pet rock. 🙁 She also quit eating)

When she started chewing air, what I mean by this, is that she would be sitting on the floor,  she would stretch her neck out in front of her at an odd angle. Then she would tilt her head to the side and started gnawing on the air. The sound she was making, quite bizarre, so I called my vet and told them what was happening and they told me to drop her off! Even though they aren’t doing drop offs yet.

I just got her back home and the news is not good. Since her last visit she has lost 4 pounds! They did a lot of tests on her- some of them they ran twice, (but only charged for running the results once). She is highly anemic, dehydrated and they suspect she has a bleed. The only problem is they can’t find it, so they can’t really help her. I was told the only way they can find the bleed is with an MRI which is a treatment they do not provide. The place that does this is 2 hours away in Salem. An MRI is $1200 and that does not include the anesthesia. Molly would be put under general anesthesia and with neurological issues like she is displaying, this is high risk.

So, I am just going to let her decompress, she went through a lot this morning. They finally did sedate her so they could get good films of her head, neck and back. Right now, she is so upset with me that I can’t even sit on the bed with her. She is so stressed out. They also diagnosed her with PTSD from the incident and she is wearing a pheremone collar now.

If anyone has a few dollars laying around, we could sure use it to cover this new expense. So Yes, I am asking for donations. Here is a copy of the bill so you can see this is on the level. Thank you for anything you can send. I will update as I can, but it is uncertain what is going to happen in the next few days. I might be offline as she is needing a lot of TLC including force feeding as she cannot swallow right. But they ran tubes down her throat- did bloodwork, x-rays and chem studies (in case she was accidently poisoned). I am freaking out inside, I just lost Mike, I do not want to lose this precious kitty as well, although it looks like maybe I might.