For someone who lost her mother young, she seems to have no aNxIeTy about her immediate family's health concerns. Dim's hernia and wisdom teeth (including blowing a blood clot) were just more things to fake laugh out and make fun of him about, she's just whatever about her sons' issues, it's... interesting.
I know it's not the same (though I care for them more than Ginn cares for humans), but when my soul kitty died and I adopted my 2 current cats after, I was so heartbroken over her death and kept thinking about what I could have done differently, that I immediately signed them up for kitty health insurance, and I was (and still am) so hypervigilant about any health issues they have that arise, I think as a trauma response (my soul kitty ended up with hepatic lipidosis and had to have a feeding tube after her initial hospitalization and I kept her going for 3 weeks before she ultimately passed). Ginn's just like "meh, whatever" which doesn't align with her "anxiety" persona. witch says that other cruise ships overwhelm her and she can't drive, but she's nonchalant about or just neglecting her childrens' health issues.
I feel ya... sending
Last May, one of our kitties was diagnosed with renal and intestinal lymphoma and we spent nearly $10,000 on chemo for him one of the renowned animal cancer care clinics here in Orlando with ridiculously educated veterinary staff and state-of-the-art radiation equipment, etc.
For weeks, we toggled between our regular vet, then I took him to a new, second vet for a second opinion, rounds of testing, plus another specialty facility with ultrasounds / diagnostic equipment, etc. plus ending with weekly visits to the cancer clinic from June to September. We were at some facility on a weekly - and at the beginning was every other day - basis.
Not to mention that he was super picky with food at that point so I had to syringe-feed him 3x a day (5-7 syringes each time that I'd fill with his prescription food) because he wasn't eating on his own (yet he was responding well to chemo, bloodwork, etc.) and, at one point, had turned a corner and started eating on his own again.
All of this was happening while I continued to work full-time, DH works FT (we'd plan around schedules to get him to his appts.), plus I took a second PT online writing job on top of things to help with costs... plus at this time, BOTH of DH's brothers unexpectedly died in June and August AND then my mother was hospitalized with congestive heart failure in August. Our cat crossed the rainbow bridge
after coming home from one of his chemo appts. in Sept. and had a series of seizures, passing at home.
Needless to say, I had stress like Jenn has never known, being pulled at all angles while still trying to keep a roof over your head and working through it all.
I STILL get torn up over what we could have done differently - yet we did EVERYTHING we could and exhausted EVERY option... yet I still feel like you did with your kitty.
JENN WOULD NEVER DO 1/10TH OF WHAT WE DID FOR ANYONE, let alone a pet or a child.