My little fluffy fighter...

His name is Jello and he never seems to stop amazing us. When he was 6 months old he was attacked by a stray cat, which left him with a broken jaw and many wounds. That caused a lot of blood loss and few stitches.
He was critical for almost a week, but he managed to get through it. That incident caused him to have a crooked jaw till now. Although as he aged sometimes he have difficulty in eating his dry food, he never complained.

He was always one the most obedient cat. Last year he started urinating and pooping around the gallery, we assumed it was just a behavioural problem. That was a big mistake.
One month ago he suddenly collapsed, there was almost no reaction from him when he called, touched or shake him a bit. I thought that is the end of it and we going to lose him.

After many tests he was diagnosed with 4th stage kidney failure and infected bile duct. Thanks to the caring and very responsible veterinarian who really cared and went on aggressive treatment and medication and being a fighter he is, his condition improved. Although I have been told many times to be prepared to lose him any time.

After almost 2 weeks in the hospital he came back and I really saw how happy and relieved he was to be back with his big family. He is still not stabil and has to depend on S/Q fluid for his life, every alternate day he has to take his fluid. Seing him cry out of pain every time the needle is inserted in him really breaks my heart. This week I decided to bring back the fluid and do it myself although I never did anything like this before. I guess that's the least I can do so he don't need to go through the uncomfortable journey in the car to the vet.

Every time I look at him it makes me feel so guilty for not noticing the changes in him and for not bringing him for a check earlier.
To all pet owners if u realised your cat or dog behaving abnormal like pooping or peeing around or losing weight and loss of appetite, just bring them for a check. Animals can't speak and doesn't know how to tell us they are uncomfortable or in pain,especially cats are well known to hide their pain.

The past 3 months have been really hard for Jello, although I'm not expecting a miracle and for him to fully recover, I just hope he maintains his current condition and gain some weight.
It did take some time for him to adopt to his new Hill's and Royal Canin kidney diet, but he managed to adapt. Just hope he can adapt to the alternate day s/q fluid too, although the vets warned me in advance there will be a time he will get very defensive when you try to insert the fluid. I bought a pack of S/Q fluid and going to try doing it myself of course after some tutorials from the vet, the least i can do to relieve him of the stress of going back and forth from the vet almost 4 times a week.
Till the time comes, let's just hope and pray the best for my little fluffy fighter Jello.
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I wrote this article few months back ..but never got the guy to post it, as I lost my boy two days after writing this.
Losing him was and is very hard but I know he is in a better place with his mom, dad and siblings and he got his freedom from all the injections and drips....it's been over three months but you will always be my baby....
Love you boy...