In Loving Memory

Last Saturday was a very emotional day for my family and I. We lost our oldest and most special cat, Hitam.

If you had remembered in one of my earlier post about 2 months back, I said that Hitam survived from a relapse. I remembered when my parents brought him to the doctor, the doctor really believed that Hitam will die that night because he was in a very critical condition. He had severe low white blood cells, a very bad kidney and bladder infection.

Hitam is a 3-legged cat who is not able to use his hind leg. The other hind leg got amputated years ago. Even the doctor was not sure what caused his spine injury. But one thing for sure, he was a very healthy little kitten when we first found him 5 years ago at our void deck.

So we kept him, fed him and he walks around the house with baby diapers. So last 2 months, miraculously he survived the ordeal. Though he was put under lots of medication and was hospitalised for 5 days. We visited him every single day and everytime we were there, he just could not wait to come home.

Last 3 weeks, he started to stop eating. He didn't eat anything else, didnt pooped and I thought something was wrong. I brought him to the clinic 2 weeks ago, and the doctor who extracted his blood said that his white blood cells was even lower than 2 months ago, though his kidney and bladder was fine.

The doctor gave Hitam some medication, and that I have to force-feed him like a baby, and fed him his medication. But unfortunately, he could not survive this 2nd ordeal. Sometimes I kept thinking: Would he have survived if I had more money, and had seek medical attention asap? I really don't know. But for sure, he was really weak last Saturday.

All that I know now is that my oldest, most expensive, most different and most pampered cat had left us, and will never come back... I am still drowned in tears everytime I think or talk about him. But I always pray that HE will take care of him, and ensure that he receives a better next-life, insyallah....

How I hope he knows how much he's loved...


A picture taken a day before he passed away
Hitam
20 May 2003 - 23 August 2008

I am going to miss him... forever.... *sobs*