This is my second submission for help from generous people. This time it is for myself and my cat, rather than an established charity.
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I am very uncertain about the health of my cat, Calypso. I took her to a local veterinarian yesterday, could only afford the most basic tests, and am waiting for a complete message back from the animal doctor this afternoon.
Calyso is eleven, until recently rather kittenish yet, and still a few years short of the average cat life-expectancy. A few datys ago she stopped eating, which did not shock me at first because it has been typical for her to take a break for a day from her food. Then I spotted that she was no longer drinking her water.
I simply can’t afford the high-end estimate I received from the people at the vet. I am also at a loss to pay this month’s rent, and the new management is stricter than the previous one about deadlines, even when previous months have been paid. Even though I have already contacted them about needing a bit more time to get the money together, before the bad news about my cat, I am certain to get the ever-friendly 
eviction threat, as once before, and they use the most threatening of language. Probably to establish to some dragging their feet unnecessarily, that rent payment is mandatory, and expected on time every month. But receiving one is still very unsettling, to the point of being distraut.
I am worried about Calypso on a daily, even hourly basis. I am cancelling a day trip to Batavia, for important board-realted business, to saty with her as much as possible. She has shown only the tiniest improvedment since the tests and preliminary treatment at the clinic. They injected water intravenously, and I took her home. (She was extremely hostile, though not rabid, when being exmined, and the whole time at the clinic, only really calming down when my friend pulled the car back into the apartyment driveway. This was not a surprise to me, since she had refused to eat with an overnight stay after being fixed.)
Since coming home, she has not had more than a few sips of her large water bowl. She has not really “touched” her moist or dry food (two kinds). Her skin no longer shows loss of elasticity, so the injected water has helped. But of course she has continued to lose weight.
I am constantly second-guessing myself, wondeing if I should have left her at the clinic overnight, despite her emotionality, while I scrambled around to get more funds together. The office is actually a continuation of the business by a previous name, which allowed late paymnt. I owe them no money from those days (in the
'90’s) when I had two other cats. But they simply do not bill anymore, or accept late payemnts by the end of 30 days. Everything is payment upon reciving services.
To pay for the remaining treatemnet, plus this month’s rent, I need about another $700.
To make matters worse, a program I subscribed to has ended, leaving me with no bus pass after Thursday. With only Blue Choice option, Monroe plan, I cannot get a much-needed bus pass to attend board meetings, quite further than walking distance, and other, related meetings, such as at the local MHA, or the local Coordinated Care Services.
Without a $56 bus pass for the month, my ability to continue as a board officer will be impaired. We hope to open an entirely peer-run program to supplant a closing social club for peers early next year.
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The parent program has recently announced that it is closing on the 21st, 8 days from now, rather tahn at the end of the year, or at the beginning of 2010. The only good news is that the rehab building iwill still be open, and we have been promised a meeting space there indefinitely, by the hospital auspices.
Please, if you can help, let me know. If you are in “dire straits” yourself you may be willing to offer advice, problem-solving, or references for services for help, instead of dollars.
Full identifying info, including street address will be available by PM to those who want to make a contribution or need my address to make a connection with an agency they will connect me to. (I received confirmation that it would be unwise to simply distribute persoanl info to “everyone”.)
Sorry about all the typos and bad spellings.
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