STORY TIME:

I have one of the most expensive cats on earth.

I recently paid ~$15,000 to have a pacemaker installed in my 4 year old shelter cat.

She started getting very clumsy and I noticed her getting dazed more and more often. Once I brought her to the vet, I learned that she had a congenital heart condition and her heart was literally stopping for seconds on end causing her to pass out (literally dying in front of me for seconds at a time.)

I couldn’t let her die. I adopted her during covid and could not have survived the pandemic without her.

I am blessed in that I could afford something like that and it wasn’t even a question of whether to get her the procedure. I would have gone bankrupt if I had to choose.

I hate that people will have to make that choice (it’s not even a choice as most people could never afford that) so after my pet insurance reimbursed me back ~$13,000, I donated it to the hospital as a grant specifically to be used towards any feline cardiac procedures that couldn’t be afforded.

Every morning we sit together while I have my coffee and I thank the universe for letting her be there with me in that moment.