I recently paid ~$15,000 to have a pacemaker installed in my 4 year old shelter cat.
She started getting very clumsy and I noticed her getting dazed more and more often. Once I brought her to the vet, I learned that she had a congenital heart condition and her heart was literally stopping for seconds on end causing her to pass out (literally dying in front of me for seconds at a time.)
I couldn’t let her die. I adopted her during covid and could not have survived the pandemic without her.
I am blessed in that I could afford something like that and it wasn’t even a question of whether to get her the procedure. I would have gone bankrupt if I had to choose.
I hate that people will have to make that choice (it’s not even a choice as most people could never afford that) so after my pet insurance reimbursed me back ~$13,000, I donated it to the hospital as a grant specifically to be used towards any feline cardiac procedures that couldn’t be afforded.
Every morning we sit together while I have my coffee and I thank the universe for letting her be there with me in that moment.
Thank you for donating to help other kitties! I was lucky my mother paid the 1000 to get my cat surgery when she needed it, I don’t think we could have if it was much more. Which would be heart breaking, she’s a very good girl.
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I have one of the most expensive cats on earth.
I recently paid ~$15,000 to have a pacemaker installed in my 4 year old shelter cat.
She started getting very clumsy and I noticed her getting dazed more and more often. Once I brought her to the vet, I learned that she had a congenital heart condition and her heart was literally stopping for seconds on end causing her to pass out (literally dying in front of me for seconds at a time.)
I couldn’t let her die. I adopted her during covid and could not have survived the pandemic without her.
I am blessed in that I could afford something like that and it wasn’t even a question of whether to get her the procedure. I would have gone bankrupt if I had to choose.
I hate that people will have to make that choice (it’s not even a choice as most people could never afford that) so after my pet insurance reimbursed me back ~$13,000, I donated it to the hospital as a grant specifically to be used towards any feline cardiac procedures that couldn’t be afforded.
Every morning we sit together while I have my coffee and I thank the universe for letting her be there with me in that moment.
Thank you for donating to help other kitties! I was lucky my mother paid the 1000 to get my cat surgery when she needed it, I don’t think we could have if it was much more. Which would be heart breaking, she’s a very good girl.