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Within the following weeks after introduction the cats came down with horrible diarrhea for almost two months. Vets, specialists. Scans and testing. No one could tell us why we were living in this hell of cats literally dripping poop all over the house. Everything came back normal but the scans did show an enlarged spleen. Appetites were normalish. One of the cats did develop a fever and was put on medication. The other had her third eyelid showing. We gave them all antibiotics, probiotics, anything our vet suggested. Absolutely nothing lessened the symptoms. Then just like that one day it stopped. I’m still so confused as to what happened or what made them so sick. I feel like I live in fear of that happening again because I don’t know the cause. It was so expensive and so horrible. What could have made my babies so ill?

I definitely think that outlook has a lot to do with trauma. I never had a clean, cozy home growing up. Like not deplorable, but embarrassing. I definitely never had friends over and company was veryy few and far between. There was stuff everywhere. Floors were always unwashed or not swept. There wasn’t a single surface that wasn’t full. One of the many things I should probably be in therapy over. Just was curious how come of yall navigate through this feeling.