{"id":171,"date":"2021-06-03T03:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T03:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.parentinggroup.ca\/?p=171"},"modified":"2021-06-03T19:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T19:19:05","slug":"loss-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/loss-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss and life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read an article a few years back that some women had fertility issues if they housed a cat. I love all animals and at this time I had my cat Bailey. The summer of 2014 Bailey was ill and I thought that she was fully recovered. That November Bailey stopped eating. Took her to the vet and they had her for a few days running tests. I went 2 to 3 times a day to visit her. Still waiting for her results, she was eating from me so I brought her home. It was a Thursday, I made her comfortable, she ate again and had some water. I was petting her she fell asleep. I quietly went to watch some TV. Not long after I heard a shuffle and Bailey gasping for air. I ran to her and saw her trying to make her way to me. I quickly picked her up and just kept repeating no no no, I&#8217;m not ready, please I love you. All the while trying to wrap her in the blanket and calling the vet. She took her last breath in my arms and I knew this but I still put my shoes on and rushed to the vet. I followed them into the room and watched them preform CPR on her, but she was gone. I stayed with her a little while longer. I left empty and broken hearted.<br>A month later,\u00a0 I was blessed with you. I knew right away. I\u00a0sometimes enjoy a glass of wine and I had cleaned the apartment, finished cooking a fabulous dinner, and was waiting for your dad to come home from work. From the week before we had a bottle open and I decided to have some. What a mistake,\u00a0it was awful. I thought something was wrong with the wine. Your dad that night wanted a beer, so when I got it for him I took a sip. Again, what a mistake. Then it dawned on me what was going on. I kept you to myself,\u00a0 I\u00a0didn&#8217;t say anything to your dad. A few weeks went by and out of the blue your dad started asking me questions. I was trying keep a straight face because I had a doctors appointment the next morning; needless to say I couldn&#8217;t. Found us in Shoppers at 11 at night buying a test. By midnight your dad was on the phone with Cuba as I came out of the bathroom with a positive stick. The next morning the doctor confirmed you.\u00a0<br>My heart put back together and filled with love.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article a few years back that some women had fertility issues if they housed a cat. I love all animals and at this time I had my cat Bailey. The summer of 2014 Bailey was ill and I thought that she was fully recovered. That November Bailey stopped eating. Took her to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/loss-and-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loss and life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-ms-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.parentinggroup.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}