Goodbye, Banana

On Saturday morning, we had to say good bye to Ana Nicole. It was (and still is) a hard thing to do, but we could not let her suffer anymore. She came home with us Friday night and we took care of her, giving her her meds, feeding and monitoring her. She did as well as she could, but as the night wore on, she seemed to be in increasing discomfort. We were scheduled to have her back at the vet by 8am Saturday morning so they could check her out and see how she was doing. By 9am the vet called us to let us know that Ana was running a fever and her x-rays looked really bad. Dr. Stephens had discussed Ana's case with a few other vets the night before and they all agreed that Ana probably had diffuse lymphoma and not the foreign body that we first thought and had probably had it for a while. Ana had already been through so much and was not getting better. She was such a sweet, gentle natured, beautiful cat and we are going to miss our Big Haired Texan Girl, calico style! Especially IML!