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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks PPs.
I slept at night, woke up just once. Might eat today, was hungry yesterday. Tears are drying up.

Friday and weekend though are still heavy on my heart. His decline was inevitable, his dying bloodwork showed stage 4 kidney failure as well.
Atleast my trauma would have been avoided if I had given enough time and thought to proritize correctly.
Now I cant trust myself anymore to proritize or make sound decisions. This is what hurts the most. For 3 continuous days I was making a series of progressively worse decisions for him and subjecting myself to self inflicted pain.

Any recommendations for grief counselling?[/quote]

That happens to all of us at the end of our pet's life, OP. You aren't a vet, and you didn't have access to any of that information, and you also have other things going on in your life competing for your attention. Try to focus on what a good cat parent you were for so many years - if you hadn't adopted him it would have been much worse for him. Forgive yourself for being human. That's what it boils down to. We all live and learn, and this experience will inform your choices going forward.

Glad you're sleeping. I wonder if the ASPCA has links to counsellors that specialize in bereavement. They used to have that in the Philly area but not sure about here.[/quote]

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