I’m sorry :( I hope your kitty will be okay. I have a $4K vet bill to pay too, but i love my cat, as I’m sure you do yours, so we make it work, no matter the sacrifice. Anyway, best of luck <3
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lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Reading this while working a shift that will put me at 85 hours of work this week. Will be able to buy groceries this month and pay for the surgery my cat needs. Also, am tired AF.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Vet bills are the worst, but my cats don’t have the option to do anything about their situation or choose to work different jobs or change things about their life so it feels wrong to decline medical care and potentially make them suffer when they don’t get a say in the matter. I can make that choice for myself and my own medical care, but it feels cruel to make that choice for them, you know? They’re stuck in whatever life I give them, so I try to make it better than mine.
I hope your cat is ok!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I wish my ADHD and other issues would let me work 85 hours a MONTH with my toddler around all day every day. I’d be able to pay myself a very decent salary for the part of my country that I live in right now.
Best of luck to you and your kitty.
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Oof, I don’t know how I’d function if I had a toddler. Single parents amaze me, I can barely function as a single person. I have pretty bad ADHD and work is an absolute white knuckle struggle, but I have absolutely no one since my last relationship failed and I don’t want to be homeless so I cry a lot at home and then slap a smile on and grind through my shift.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Oof, I don’t know how I’d function if I had a toddler
I literally don’t. I’m making do on about a fifth of the income I had when I was still together with my ex and she at least spent SOME time taking care of the child.
I live in the old family home my grandparents built, but it’s a big-ass house and I live in a cold-ass country so like a third to a half of my income goes on heating it in the winter. I could of course move somewhere, but then I’d have to pay rent, and that’s a year-round expense. Place is not in the best shape or a great location either, so I can’t even sell it and buy an apartment in one of the cities where there’s actually shit to do lol
Luckily once my toddler is willing to spend full days in kindergarten instead of the current 2-3 hours before the nap time, my finances will get better and I can replace the expensive and labor-intensive wood furnace central heating system with an air-to-water heat pump, saving me a bunch of money and some time. Right now if it gets super cold I get to sleep 3-4 hours at most at night because I have to go put in more briquettes or wood lol
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
See, now I have to know what’s wrong with the kitty.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yeah, will the kitty be OK?
(Also, all the best for you, I hope things change for the better real soon.)
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Kitty will be ok, thank you. Just needs teethies taken care of. If we’re lucky not pulled, just anesthesia and deep cleaned, so not really surgery, but still expensive as hell. If not lucky, teeth pulled and painkillers, so more like surgery. He goes in tomorrow, both of us will be very unhappy.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I prescribe extra wet food
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Update, if anyone is interested. Kitty is ok, but things ended up being worse than the vet realized. Externally everything looked good except needing a cleaning and the vet thought maybe a tooth might need extracted, but when they did X-rays 4 of his teeth were being resorbed by his body and the roots were basically gone, so they needed to be pulled. Poor guy is doing good, very unhappy about his current life situation and will be medicated and in a cone for the next 2 weeks, but I’m glad it’s taken care of and he’s home.