MY CAT ‘FLASH’
Her Healing Story
Soon after my black cat Misty died, a pure white cat started coming around and sleeping in Misty’s places in the yard. Now I wasn’t looking for another cat, maybe never, but obviously this white cat had other ideas. Isn’t there a saying that ‘animals choose their owners”?
Because she was a little skinny I felt sorry for her and started leaving out some milk for her. She would come when no one was nearby and then run away as she appeared anxious and flighty. She had been ‘fixed up’ so it seemed she had been someone’s pet but then abandoned her for some reason.
One day she found enough courage to enter the house and came to me where I was lying on the bed and she just lay across my tummy like it was a natural thing to do and my heart melted. So she was allowed to stay and when I asked her what she wanted to be called, I heard the name ‘Flash’. I had her checked over and the vet thought she was about 4 years old.
Flash loved to lie in the sun but as you can imagine it wasn’t the best past-time for a white cat with very pink ears, nose and mouth. Unfortunately the inevitable happened, she got cancer on her nose. I would give her Reiki healing regularly to help with this until one day I asked for guidance, “Was I doing the right thing by giving her so much Reiki healing on her nose?” My answer was that I was just prolonging the agony for her, so I stopped doing it and I couldn’t believe how quickly the cancer spread. Although I thought I was doing the right thing, my good intentions had caused her extra suffering. I did continue giving her Reiki to bring comfort and peace to help her through though. She was 18 years old and had had a good life with us.
Within a few months it was apparent that the time had come and I realized that the kindest way out for her was to have her euthanased. My mobile vet Andrew was a lovely gentle man and I organized with him to come to my home. I bought a beautiful pink rose box to lay her in and used one of my white healing cloths to wrap her in. I placed one of my red roses in the box with her as well. Although it was a traumatic event, it was also beautiful as I got to hold Flash and comfort her throughout the whole procedure and she passed away peacefully.
We had her cremated and scattered her ashes under our jacaranda tree in the back yard while celebrating and toasting her life with champagne.
Sometimes I’d feel/see her presence and feel her jump up onto my bed at night but that doesn’t happen so much anymore. She’s free now and probably playing with Misty and our other cat Petunia.
