Autopsy Results

I finally got the autopsy results tonight. Spook didn't have a chance.

Her heart was okay, but she had "high grade" lymphosarcoma of spleen and liver.
Spleen rupture isn't common, and probably did because it grew very fast. And
it's possible she died in her sleep, no one of knowing.

I asked the vet to give me a scenario, if I'd brought her in the week before.
Until she would have been fully diagnosed with ultrasound, it probably would
have been too late. And IF they'd caught it and removed the spleen, they
couldn't have started chemo till she recovered. And with the cancer in the
liver, they would have had to do high doses of chemo, which would have made her
sick. At most, she would have had six lousy months, but most likely, less time.

So the way she went was the best for Spook, altho I still wish I had had a short
time to have told her one last time how much I love her and how much she meant
to me.

My beautiful sweetheart, I know I gave you a good home and lots of love, but I'm
so sorry that life can be so unfair, and that I couldn't protect you from it.

But I'm glad, my 5-1/2 year old kitten, that you knew how to enjoy your life to
the fullest.

Kami

P.S. How ironic that this is the one year anniversary of my retirement,
which was one of the happiest days of my life.



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