Alice Winterhold
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Barbarossa update (TLDR: She is alive)
🕑 Added 2025-05-14 10:09:14 +0000 UTCI was hesitant to talk too much about her because I don’t want to seem like I’m dramatising it for content but at least some of you have vocalised care and concern so I think it’s deserved that I give you an update.
Barbarossa, because She’s such a super special girl, has a rare congenital cyst on her intestine. Now, I don’t know exactly what those words mean because I am of a simple mind but my understanding is that she’s got a big lump in her tummy that was there from when she was born yet shouldn’t be there and is making her poorly.
Lot’s of scans, more different kinds of scans and then surgery led to this discovery; unfortunately it’s not just a rare, but an especially difficult example of a rare condition. Because of where the cyst is, it couldn’t be removed without risking fucking up her pancreas for the rest of her life. So she survived the surgery, had the critical issues fixed, but the cyst is still in there like a little bomb that could make her very ill very quickly at any moment.
The vets are working on a plan to help her; apparently it’s ALL the vets. The surgeon told me that because her condition is so rare and complicated and because she is so cute (he genuinely said that), the veterinary communities that I have learned exist on WhatsApp groups and such are all trying to help her out ;_;
It’s a pretty epic and touching story really, she’s a little fighter; a really, really little fighter. The runt of the litter with death trailing her. Yet she’s so full of life, seeing her fight so hard to live makes others around her want to fight for her too. Now with all that support, even if she’s not cured, she’s got more time. Her story goes on, it’s beautiful.
Hopefully she will be coming home later today for rest and cuddles. Thank-you to all of you for sending good wishes her way, I love you
Comments
Graham Sweet
Fingers and legs crossed
Tiger Man 49
Poor baby kitty.
Andrew Marsh
How is Barbarossa noe, please, Alice?
