Way back, our vet was a very senior vet. This was during the time of Mac & Bobby, Cow Mau and siblings, Indy too.
Indy was rescued from the drain with impossible-to-survive conditions. But he did. I was supposed to help a friend look after him for 2 weeks, but he ended up with us for 16 years.
With an already compromised start in life, Indy got sick quite often, but usually, no vet would be able to correctly diagnose what he had, not even our very senior vet. Oftentimes, we thought Indy wasn’t going to make it. I resorted to TCM, even psychic healing. When desperate, you try whatever you have to.
And Indy would somehow, miraculously, bounce back. We joked that Indy practised TCM. That’s Traditional Cat Medicine. He will heal himself, somehow.
Indy had more than 9 lives in his lifetime.
There was once Indy was hospitalised with the strangest of condition – gas appearing above his stomach where there was supposed to be none. I had two of the most senior and prominent vets in the Klang Valley working on him. “We don’t know what’s wrong with your cat,” they told me. I camped at the clinic with Indy. Indy pulled through.
That was what happened with Indy all his life.
So my senior vet confided in me and told me, “Do you know that in medicine, veterinary or human, 50% of the time doctors don’t know what on earth is wrong with the patient. You just don’t know. But the patient gets well and gets to go home.” That is how it works.
I believe he was telling me the truth. Vets don’t lie.
And I think I will also never know what caused my lungs to be so badly infected this time, with no symptoms. I won’t know. Nobody will know. But hopefully, I will get to go home tomorrow!
Baby Indy
Indy
I named him Indy because of my hero, Indiana Jones. Because he had no chance of survival, he had to be named Indy.
Indy even had his very own book! He’s the only cat who stars in his own book….for time immemorial.
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