We learned from ultrasound and lab tests this week that our blind cat Turtle’s cancer had returned … not only into her intestines again, but it had now spread to her bones. The growth we noticed around her left eye turned out to be not an infection but an extremely aggressive bone cancer. It was just four weeks ago that she had come through major intestinal surgery, which our vets thought at the time had successfully removed all the cancerous tissue. As it happened, the cancer had already seeded itself elsewhere.
This sweet, affectionate girl was just wasting away, and with the new diagnosis, we knew the time had come to let her go. So Alayne drove to the vet clinic today, where Turtle had been since Sunday, to hold her while we put her to sleep. Even at the end, Turtle was still purring as Alayne stroked her. I’ve never known a cat who would purr at the sound of our footsteps approaching, but that was Turtle. She just adored people. She was truly one of the sweetest, nicest, and most loving cats I’ve ever known. Bless her little heart.
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