Dental Surgery...Dusty
Feb. 18th, 2026 12:13 pmFebruary has not been a very happy month for me. *sighs*
∙ My husband got pickpocketed. That thief withdrew 1500 CAD from our bank account within 10 minutes before my husband noticed his wallet was gone.
∙ Dusty's chin swelled up like it had been stung by a wasp. She has got a chronic bacterial infection.
The first vet (Dusty's usual vet) told me that the cost for the surgery would be over $3000. OUCH!
And we lost $1500. Double OUCH.
Then, one of my friends recommended a vet who offered affordable services.
The recommended vet told me that the surgery would cost $1500, but it would be really risky procedure for a very old cat like Dusty.
Now I'm here praying.
This April, she will turn seventeen. Please let her be a seventeen year old cat...
Dusty in 2009

∙ My husband got pickpocketed. That thief withdrew 1500 CAD from our bank account within 10 minutes before my husband noticed his wallet was gone.
∙ Dusty's chin swelled up like it had been stung by a wasp. She has got a chronic bacterial infection.
The first vet (Dusty's usual vet) told me that the cost for the surgery would be over $3000. OUCH!
And we lost $1500. Double OUCH.
Then, one of my friends recommended a vet who offered affordable services.
The recommended vet told me that the surgery would cost $1500, but it would be really risky procedure for a very old cat like Dusty.
Now I'm here praying.
This April, she will turn seventeen. Please let her be a seventeen year old cat...
Dusty in 2009

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Date: 2026-02-18 09:47 pm (UTC)Thinking of Dusty with everything crossed! *hugs*
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Date: 2026-02-18 11:21 pm (UTC)I've just received a phone call from the vet. He said the swollen jaw was not because of the chronic bacterial infection. Dusty has got bone cancer, he says. I have to go now.
Update later...
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Date: 2026-02-19 11:10 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2026-02-19 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-02-19 08:44 pm (UTC)I really need those love and hugs...
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Date: 2026-02-19 10:05 am (UTC)I also wish the fleas from a thousan camesl to infest the undeprants of the thief who stole your husband's wallet. Hope you can get the money back.
Send hugs xxx
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Date: 2026-02-19 07:32 pm (UTC)We had to decide to put her down last night. *sobs*
The vet showed me Dusty's X-ray result. Her jaw bone was eaten up by an evil tumor. She must have been in massive pain and hiding it so well. *snivels*
I know I shouldn't blame the other vet (our regular one), but why couldn't they find her bone cancer earlier? Dusty had taken some X-ray tests before. Regret, Regret...Sorry, I'm in a very bad place right now.
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Date: 2026-02-19 02:30 pm (UTC)Really tough luck about the wallet theft too. Some really awful people out there.
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Date: 2026-02-19 08:20 pm (UTC)Dusty has gone to the Rainbow Bridge last night...
The vet and I agreed that Dusty's being sick with nasty bone cancer would be too cruel. *sobs*