October 26, 2013

Sad news.  My little Dharma died at 1930 on October 25.  She had been sick after all the ant spraying, as had I.  I had thought that if I was as sick as I was, what could it be doing to her little body.  She was sick for a couple of days and then seemed to be alright.  Last Sunday night, she caught and ate a cockroach.  After that she was very listless and was eating little or nothing.  On Tuesday night I took her to the emergency at the veterinary hospital.  They couldn't do much as they don't have any real facilities at night.  They prescribed some drugs which I bought and tried to give her without much success.  By Thursday, she was really bad, so I took her back to the hospital.  She was severely dehydrated and had some compacted feces in her intestine.  They hydrated her and when I spoke with them last night at 1830, the doctor said they had given her an enema and that she had passed a little stool.  I thought we were out of the woods.  This morning I got a call saying they had given her a scan and had found hair balls in her GI tract. She then went into distress and they had to put her into the ICU.  She died at 1930.

She had such a short little life.  I miss her very much.  She was a lovely affectionate cat.  In my heart of hearts, I knew she would not live long as she had been so near death when I found her.  But I didn't expect her to go so quickly.  We only had 10 months together.

This is where she spent her last days at home with her friend Tina Tranchela. 

Thankfully, my friend Yvonne is with me from Colombo.  She was supposed to go back today, but she has delayed until tomorrow so that she could spend this sad day with me.  Good to have friends. 

We went out to the Mahaweli Reach Hotel to meet Sunali to get me out the house.  When I am here, I see Dharma around every corner.  I had a stiff vodka martini and feel a little better.  The sadness will come and go in waves.