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Hi all,
I am feeling so stressed today. I took my cat to the vet yesterday and he has been diagnosed with kidney failure. They have him on an iv and are giving him something to balance his blood chemistry (kitty dialysis?). Anyway, he's given a 20% chance of pulling through this. What really sucks is that we went through this 2 and a half years ago with another kitty we had. Yes, he didn't make it. It was so hard for me to go through that, I don't want to go through it again.

I'm just so stressed and upset, and I'm sort of stuck with my husband out of town for the day and my oldest daughter out of town on a school related trip until tomorrow. I feel like I'm having to deal with this alone.

On top of everything I'm going to school and we're at the last 2 and a half weeks of classes. So, I have papers and finals looming.

I also had a pretty bad night's sleep last night, so on top of everything I'm tired which makes me more teary than I probably would be. The only good thing is that I seem to have my D under control. Usually it is worse in the morning, but I haven't had too much trouble so far.

Anyway, I just needed to vent. I don't feel like the people I know really understand the whole pet=family thing. Very few of them have pets. So, I don't feel like I have a sympathetic ear around here. From what I've seen, this is a very understanding group...when I joined I said I would need some shoulders to cry on...I just didn't think I'd need it so bad.

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*Karyn* IBS D

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