tbi: my pets
I have a cat and a dog, it might be uncommon for some to have that combination of pets but they get along fine. I always forget my dogs age so I think she's 12 or 13 this year? I'm not sure about the details besides the fact that she's old now. I don't know the details about my cat's age either since she's initially from the streets and she probably has a few weeks on her before I got her so she's two years, 4 months and add a few weeks to that count.
I still love my pets dearly, even before my aneurysm I would say that my cat resembled my personality a lot. Due to my aneurysm, that caused personality changes in me so she doesn't have a lot of similarities to me like now compared to how it was before but I still love her regardless.
My dog is a boxer, so her breed is prone to developing tumors, different types of cancer and probably other stuff that I don't know of very well. She's considered a senior dog so senior dogs can develop a loss of hearing, smell, dementia, and a list of other things a senior dog can develop. She has loss of hearing, dementia, tumors, and her teeth aren't strong. She probably has more things but the ones listed are things that people have noticed. Because she has had a stroke, I see her current behavior and it makes me think of how I was in the first few months of having my aneurysm.
We have similar things now because we are affected by a tbi and a thing that I find obvious in how similar we are is the lack of balance, we can trip or fall easily and we can walk a bit weird sometimes because we have balance as an issue.
Before my aneurysm and her stroke, I had moments where I'd care for her and my cat. Now because we both have a tbi, and even before her stroke occured she's been an older dog which brings the issue that we can't care for her properly like she needs due to her age and now because if her stroke. Yeah, it's not particularly nice in knowing that she will eventually have to go because we can't take care of her properly. We aren't certain if putting her to sleep or if a seizure that takes her life will come first. She recently began to have seizures and we think it might be because of the stroke she had sometime last year.
I do take care of my cat too, in fact, I do talk about her a lot to others that know me to the point where others know little or nothing about the dog who has been around longer than my cat ever did. A reason I can think of why I don't mention the dog is because she's originally my mom's dog, sure she might obey me at times but that's because I'd take care of her especially when my mom isn't around to attend to the dog's needs. I love her too even if she isn't exactly mine like how the cat is.