Help Scooter Booter Kitten Live
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I am Scooter Booter, 1 and 1/2 years old boy and I am having a very hard time lately with urinary tract issues due to stress. My mom tries everything she can possibly do, and she's taken me to the vet 5 times in this last month. I have clean constant running filtered water and a special prescription diet, and follow all the recommendations. Even though I don't like to take my medicine my mom makes me do it anyways. She promises it'll help but I still make grumbly noises so she knows how gross it tastes.
I really need surgery but my mom has been on short term disability. She can't get care credit with all of this financial turmoil. She sometimes has to pay for my medications or visits in a lot of change. Whatever she can find from anywhere. Those pennies add up!
All of the money she had in savings, retirement, and even her own medical HSA funds are now gone after almost 6 months on disability. It wasn't very much as she was just starting to get her head above the water, financially, and is still paying off her own school loans and life. We don't have things like internet or tv, our way of life is pretty simple and quiet.
I wish that my medical issues could wait until she gets a paycheck again in a few weeks, but things like Hurricane Dorian kicked up some wind here and reallllly stressed me out and we had to go back to the vet this morning for the 5th time and she couldn't afford to do the surgery like we've been planning on doing in the future, so the vet emptied my bladder using a needle because I've had a urinary catheter too many times.
She and I talked, she even considered letting someone else love me and take care of me, or giving me up to a facility/shelter that could treat me. Whatever is in my best interest for ny life no matter how sad we'd be, but she can't be guaranteed my safety and I really don't like anyone but my mommy so she's doing her best to find me the help I need.
We've called low cost options but there are none in our area for my situation. We've reached out for many types of help but have recieved none so far, and it's not looking hopeful, definitely not in time.
When I get stressed my bladder fills up but I can't let it out and it will kill me. The vet won't unblock me via catheter again, and the needle only temporarily releases my bladder. I was blocked this morning and haven't been feeling so good.....
She cries and tells me how much she loves me, she calls me her "little fluffy heart", and I reach my head up when I'm not so sick and lick her chin or nose or lips to let her know how much I love her too. She holds me like she never wants to let me go, but I'm really afraid I won't survive because we are out of time, money and options and don't know what to do.
She mostly spends her time reading to us or singing songs she made up for each of us, or my favorite... playing games and sitting on the deck with watching the fish and birds and being loved and petted.... aaaaaand maybe the belly scratches too. We are her whole world.
I want many more days of love and life so much it hurts, and I know she would do anything for me because I am so dependent on her for everything. That's what my mom says you do though for family and that's what we are to her and her daughter. But now she has nothing left to help me with so I, please, need any help you might be willing to give. I can't tell you what it would mean to us or how much we'd appreciate it! The pennies add up!
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Charlie Ladwig
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New London, CT
