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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • (I’ve had gastric bypass - 2001- and then a revision - 2021. Surgery never worked for me.)

    I went from semaglutide to tirzepatide and now retatrutide.

    I took retatrutide since last year. I’m currently on a maintenance dose to prevent regaining what I’ve lost since I’ve hit my goal.

    ATH: 377 SW: 298 CW: 195 GW: 200

    I thank the gods every day that I found these things and have access to them.







  • CheftoCatposting@lemmy.blahaj.zoneexpensy wensy
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    2 months ago

    STORY TIME:

    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.