@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: popped a caffeine tablet this morning for the first time in a long time and still almost can't tell I took it. Last night was a long night.
Our sick, elderly cat (which has been my wife's cat for almost its entire life) took a turn for the worse, so sometime after 11 PM my wife took it to the emergency vet. I stayed home to try to sleep, because work, but failed to really get any sleep. A few hours later she called to tell me that the results of their tests were grim and she was having it put down. This came not completely as a surprise, due to the cat's overall age and condition, but was still unexpectedly soon, and now I really wish I had gotten dressed and gone to the vet with her, partly to be with my wife and partly to say goodbye to the cat. It's not like I got any sleep anyway.
Then she got home and spent the rest of the night crying until around 4 or 5 in the morning, at which point she finally fell asleep, at which point I didn't have enough time to really fall asleep and get any rest, even if I'd been able to. So now I feel like I was up all night, which I basically was.
We still have one cat which is actually the same age as the other was but thankfully it is still in good health. I'm dreading the time when we lose it, more than anything else because my wife will really fall apart then.
And this is why I really don't want to have pets. They don't live long enough, and it's just too hard when it's time to say goodbye. And on top of them dying, the veterinary expenses don't help with the overall stress levels. :(
next time, have fish for pets. if they die, you can just throw them down the drain or something.