Mikey's House

Memory Lane

2025-10-05T23:31:00.000-07:00

I created this website as a way to share my guy with you and to create a bit of a legacy for him.

I then created profiles for Mikey's House on many platforms such as his Facebook page. .

Mikey's House

His his Facebook Group...

Mikey's Cat House

His Tiktok page

Mikey's Cat House

There are more out there but these are the ones that come to mind.

He also has Instagram and Threads profiles but those have not been kept active over the years.

Mikey's Cat House on Facebook is the nearest and dearest to my heart and where the majority of my postings have been concerning Mikey.

I should have cross posted the content from there to here but I didnt do that.

Now looking back I wish I had.

There are so many posts that I wish were on here and so I figured why not post them on here now?

So that is what I plan to do. From now until I stop, I will be sharing random posts from Mikey's life and they wont be in any kind of order, just different posts that have touched my heart in some way or another.

So, I hope you will come along for the walk down memory lane with me..these posts belong on his website too.

To all of his followers on Mikey's Cat House...Thank you for loving my little guy so much and for still honoring him even now by showing up everyday in his group.

I love you all so much.

Stay tuned. ❤️

Time

2025-08-26T22:33:00.000-07:00

Time doesn't heal anything.

Life just goes on.

Either you go with it or just remain stuck in the constant loop of feeling lost and sad.

I dont believe we actually heal, we just get sick of being sad about something we have absolutely no control over.

So we suck it up and walk back into our lives and try to act like its all better yet, we know its not all better. everyone knows its not all better, it could never be all better because the only one who can make it better is no longer here.

But we can fake it, kinda.

We can smile at people and have short conversations. Anything deeper will start the tears, so we keep it light.

We try to just get through the day like a normal person but there is nothing normal about your life anymore. Everything just feels off.

There are moments of laughter and moments to enjoy but they are so short lived because all you can think about during those moments is how much better it would be if he was still here.

If you point out a cat that is cute, Im going to tell you how cute Mikey was.

If a cat does something funny, Im going to tell you about when Mikey did something similar.

If one of my cats isnt being lovey, I remember how Mikey was always lovey.

Everything brings him to my mind because he is still so alive in my heart.

Time will never take him awày because I wont let it happen.

If Im moving on he is moving with me which probably sounds counterintuitive but it's a fact.

The only thing that time is doing is reminding me of all the time I'm missing with my Moo.

Thats it.

But here I am, getting through it.

Getting through it makes me so mad sometimes.

I know this makes zero sense to a sane person. And thats ok. If you havent been through this, that makes me happy.

I actually dont feel sorry for myself at all. Im so grateful that God gave me something so special that I would love for the rest of my life.

I have been very fortunate.

With great loss, there is great love.

Model is Mikey

This one is for Mikey

2024-05-15T13:19:00.000-07:00

Sorry to do this to you again but I needed to make this one for Mikey.

It's amazing how many times I have asked God to let this all be a dream.

I think I have made it through the bargaining stage of grieving.

It's not a dream, Mikey is not coming back.

I made this on the 1 month anniversary of his death,

I made this video for him of moments we shared that hold such meaning within me.

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Mikey, I'm so sorry you are not here physically but mom knows you are right here beside me.

I look back over our life together and there is no doubt that you made me a better me.

I hope I gave you all you have given me.

Don't worry about me because I can feel that you are worried.

I will be ok.

Just know that our time will always be ours, no one and

nothing can take away what we have shared.

You will always be my best friend, for as long as Im alive and beyond.

I need to let you rest now.

Thank you for rescuing me.

I love you.

It's been 730 days since he left here

2023-02-16T03:07:00.006-08:00

It's been 730 days since he left here and I have no idea how I have survived these last 2 years without him. I really didn't think that I would survive.

On this 2 year mark of the date that he died, I really want to spend it thinking about all the days that he lived. I have spent enough time thinking about his death. I have been over every detail of that day thousands of times but it's his life that brings me out of that tail spin.

Everytime.

My closet is still set up with all of the things that are related to Mikey. Haley calls it my shrine and she laughs because the letter 'M' is everywhere in my room. She laughs because she knows I can't pass up buying another one when I see them. I cant, it's almost impossible. I don't see myself taking any of his stuff down anytime soon either.

Seeing his face, his stuff, it makes me not feel crazy even though it makes me appear that way. His face is just so familiar. When I see his eyes even just in photographs, it soothes me. Seeing his videos have probably helped me the most. I suggest you take as many videos as you can of your cat's because in the end, they really do help.

It's been such a long time already and I want to say it's gone by fast but that would be a lie. Some days feel like they last all week, especially when I'm really down about him. It's been the longest 2 years of my life because every day is one more day that I haven't seen him.

But I'm here.

I'm still plugging along.

I drag myself out of bed most days but I get out of that damn bed.

Most of those days, I just want to hide but I don't. I get dressed and I do what I have to do for the day even through the tears and all the excuses I try to come up with to stay in my room.

I wish I could bring him back.

I wish he never left.

But he did leave and he is gone.

Of course he is still with me, he will always be with me because he is a part of who I am. I grew into this person that I am today because of him. He made me strong, because he was so brave.

And I swear I just felt him get up on my bed, no shit! As I was typing this I felt something behind me , like a walking cat but when I looked there was no one there.

Oh, but there was someone there.

Because I know in my heart that he would never really leave me.

I think that's what actually keeps me going.

There are some friendships in this life, in any life, that will stand the test of time no matter how long it has been. There is just a bond that cannot be broken, not even in death. Our friendship could never die.

The last two years have been very painful but I've learned so much. Mikey was my security for so long and it's crazy that I would lean so much on him but I did. I needed him. I took everything that I was missing in my life back then and allowed Mikey to fill that void. He did it so well and it helped me to heal because I really needed him to hold.

I still reach for him though, on those nights when my dreams get the best of me and it's difficult when I realize he is no longer here. I have found though, if I close my eyes during those moments, I can still feel him here and it's enough to get me back to sleep and onto the morning.

Then I chalk up, another night without him that I have survived. I feel guilty sometimes for being able to survive without him but I also feel strong and I know that is what he would want because he worked so hard to give me strength.

I have found that I do feel good when I make it through the night because I feel like I am honoring Mikey the way that he deserves to be honored.

I still miss him though and sometimes this lump in my through gives way and the tears just have to fall. I'm strong but it still hurts because I miss him so much.

Model is Mikey March 7, 2003 - February 16, 2021

I miss them.

2022-02-21T20:35:00.002-08:00

Missing my babies

Right here with me

2022-01-01T22:29:00.002-08:00

Being her mom has been an honor....

Almost 19 years...

The memories I will keep right here with me. 

Sissy
March 7, 2003 -
December 20, 2021

Finding my balance

2022-01-01T21:28:00.002-08:00

It's difficult to put into words what the world feels like to me now...

Usually finding the words comes easy but how I feel now is not easy to describe. 

When you have someone who constantly wants to be with you, like every minute of every day, for 18 years. (cant even get close enough to you even when he is on your lap)

And then he is gone. 

It does something to your equilibrium.

I'm trying to find my balance.

I miss how much he loved me. 

This photograph is of Mikey sitting in the window while I'm outside, I think the look says it all.

He didnt like us to be apart.

I dont like it either. 

Model is Mikey

One Last Kiss

2021-09-13T14:27:00.005-07:00

After bringing Mikey home on the night he died, it was dark and I was glad that I didn't have to bury him yet.

Bob said he would dig the hole when he got off work the following day, he got off early.

This still gave me more time to try and wrap my head around all of this.

I had placed Mikey in his booster seat which is right next to my bed.

(My mattress is directly on the floor because of Mikey's arthritis, it made it easier for him to get up onto the bed.)

I remember falling aseep with my hand on him, I didn't want to miss one second of the time we had left in this physical world, I knew, I would never have another chance to touch him again.

He was cold and I kept adjusting his blanket like that would make a difference somehow.

My brain was in such shock that night, I'm sure most of the things I did would make little sense to the outside world.

I remember not sleeping much that night, waking up many times, praying each time for it all to be a dream but then feeling his coldness would bring me back.

My dreams were so wild that night, I kept dreaming about me running with Mikey, we just kept running, I don't know where we were going but we were running so fast.

I woud wake up and feel scared.

The following morning just felt like dread, I knew what was coming.

It took me most of the morning to gather stuff for his burial pod. I talked to him the whole time and watched as each of my cats made their way into our bedroom to say their goodbyes.

Even though, I was gathering his things for burial, I was still in denial a bit, protecting myself from what was about to happen.

I couldn't have him cremated, I just couldn't but the thought of of putting him in the ground was making me physically sick.

I remember opening and shutting his pod 20 times for one more kiss.

By the time Bob got home and dug the hole, I thought I was as ready as I could be.

Nope.

As we headed to his gravesite, I carried him in his pod but my legs felt so weak, it was the longest shortest walk I have ever taken.

I asked Bob to lower him into the grave and Haley and I watched as the music began to fade.

I totally lost it.

I'm serious, like a little kid, I was stomping my feet and crying and screaming no!

Please no.

Haley was holding me up, otherwise I would have fallen. She just kept squeezing me tighter.

I thought I would want to stay there by his grave for longer but I didnt, I just wanted to sleep.

I can see his grave from my bedroom window but he is no longer there, I feel him now everywhere else, in our room, in the kitchen outside in the garden, he is all over this place because I am.

It's taken these past months to put it all into perspective, losing Mikey has been so sad but at the same time, it has been so beautiful.

The outpouring of love after his death and even now has been so incredible.

To know that his story has touched so many people is actually keeping him alive for me.

He has taught me that even death cannot take from us what we share with one another.

His memory is so alive within me every single day.

Nothing can take away all the times he has been there for me and he can still be here for me even now and he is because love never dies.

Even in death, he still teaches me.

Models are Mikey and his Mom (me)

Our last cuddle

I'm not me without him

2021-05-03T16:38:00.003-07:00

This has been so difficult for me.

I know he was 18 years old and he lived a long life but I suck here without him.

We were always together no matter what.

Im trying.

He has some of the most amazing followers over on Mikey's Cat House

and everywhere really, people from all over.

I feel so fortunate to have so many of you love him so much.

Mikey pretty much died from old age, there was no specific illness that took his life, he just stopped eating.

He had had all the best medical care, I even switched him to a geriatric specialist.

Wr tried all sorts of stuff and ran all the tests but in the end his body just shut down.

I took him in to be put to rest and his heart stopped after they gave him the sedative.

It was peaceful but it was awful.

Im doing the best I can to pick up the pieces but I dont know....

I just miss him.

We have never been apart this long. 😔

This was taken a couple of weeks before he died. He had lost so much weight, he went from 23lbs to 10 lbs in a little over a month. It was awful.

Mikey died on February 16, 2021

I can see his grave from my bedroom window.

I will still be posting stories and photos of Mikey here and in his Facebook Group Mikey's Cat House.

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED

2021-02-19T10:40:00.005-08:00

He is gone and he has taken so much of who I am with him.

I will post more later but for now I need a minute.

18 of the most beautiful years.

Mitsi Passed Away

2020-04-01T18:53:00.001-07:00

I wanted to let you know about Mitsi, my Mama cat, she passed away in November.

Mitsi was pregnant when I rescued her and she had her kittens the very next day.

We let her raise her kittens in the warm house and when they got older I created an online adoption application for them and over 50 people applied to adopt them. They all went to amazing homes.

I knew from the get that I wanted to keep Mitsi.

About six months or so after the kittens went to their forever homes Mitsi was diagnosed with severe stomatitis which means her mouth was inflamed, her gums were a dark red and her throat looked like hamburger meat. Her whole mouth was covered in ulcers.

The only hope for a cure would be to have all of her teeth removed and it would cost $1200 for the surgery in Sacramento but with no guarantee it would work.

We decided to wait because of the money it would cost and we moved to Oregon.

She was on pain killers but cats don't do so well on long term pain killers, their kidneys usually get pissed off.

Once we moved here I raised the money to have her teeth removed and it didn't cost quite as much but still a lot.

Mitsi did so well after surgery but her vet was concerned because her gums were so bad they wouldn't even hold a suture.

She recovered and we thought she was home free. She was so happy but then it returned and it was worse than before.

For the last year of her life she has been on pain meds every single day.
She has been mostly out of it all the time. We did have our times though each day when she would be all lovey.

The last few weeks of her life I noticed her weight loss. I figured it was her mouth hurting and her not eating enough.

But on November 26th she went to take a step and fell over. She had two seizures and she died in my arms.

My heart has been broken ever since.

I just miss her so much.

You know, when I met her she was a feral cat living under a trailer. I tried to get her many times with no luck but the day before she was to have her kittens she decided to take a chance on me and she allowed me to get her into that carrier.

She did it for her babies, I know she did. She took a chance and it paid off. She always seemed so grateful.

I really do miss her so much.

This is Mitsi, I called her Mama though because she earned that title.

Model is Mitsi (Mama)

Here is the post when we first met.

MITSI'S FRIENDSHIP (A MAMA CAT RESCUE)

Semi Retired

2020-04-01T18:31:00.002-07:00

Back when Mikey was younger, he and I would spend entire days just taking pictures.

I know he didn't truly understand what I was doing with this camera in my hand but if I didn't know better, I would swear he knew exactly what I was doing.

It was a game to Mikey, I would get down on the floor with him and just watch him play.

I believe my best shots came from that time.

He would roll around on the floor and try to get me and then he would hide and I would go look for him and then I would hide and he would look for me.

It was so much fun and those memories are some of the best memories I have had in my life.

I enjoyed every second that we would spend together.

Now a days at 17 years old, he doesn't play so much but we still spend entire days together, just not with my camera in my hand.

Don't get me wrong, I still take a ton of pictures of him (as you know), its just not my main focus with him these days like it once was.

I guess you could say he is semi retired. Lol

Instead, these days we spend our time loving.

We talk about old times...

I do all the talking actually and the fact that he can't hear me makes me seem nuts but I dont care, I still ask him if he remembers stuff. Lol

He knows what Im saying, he doesn't need those old ears.

Mikey listens with his heart and he hears mine perfectly.

Model is Mikey

2019-04-10T01:53:00.000-07:00

If you have been impacted

by the recent wildfires in Paradise, California

Your cat may be waiting for you at the

Alley Cat Allies Recovery Center®

Camp Fire Monkeys Need Your Help

2019-03-16T18:20:00.000-07:00

It has been 128 days since the awful Camp Fire and many cats are still being rescued off of that mountain.

There are still so many more.

Fieldhaven, with the support of Alley Cat Allies are working tirelessly to bring these babies home.

They need our help.

Please consider making a donation to Fieldhaven to help the Camp Fire Cats of Paradise, Magalia and Concow.

Please.

I wish that I could just see him run again

2018-07-17T17:52:00.001-07:00

I wish that I could just see him run again, like he did when he was young.

My little hurricane as he shot through the house, over the chairs knocking stuff off the tables

He would hit the stairs at full throttle and it would take him two leaps and he would be at the top.

I would walk into the bedroom and he would peek out from under the bed then he would grab my ankles. Lol

He would jump from the bed onto the dresser and then to the cat tree and then up to his perch that was made for him that overlooked the entire room, it was almost to the ceiling high.

When he was through with this little outburst of his he would just jump from the perch to the bed.

It really is no wonder why he has arthritis now, he was pretty tough on that body of his

Watching him though was like magic as he sailed through the air and as he would run his hair would blow against him and you just knew you were witnessing how the royals play.

My king.

Model is Mikey

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Mikey's House (Page)
https://www.facebook.com/mikeyshouse/
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Mikey's House (website)
http://www.mikeyshouse.org
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Mikey's Cat House (Group)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mikeyscathouse
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Happy Easter

2018-04-01T01:47:00.002-07:00

Cat Cell Phone Covers

2017-11-29T16:45:00.000-08:00

I know, this is something a little different from what I usually post here but they turned out so dang cute that I wanted to at least let you know about them.

I sell most of my work on Redbubble and there are many different products available. I really like the phone cases and the greeting cards too. :)

I actually got my Daughter Haley one of these for her Birthday with her Cat Tiggy on it and she just loves it so much.

Redbubble does quality work which is why I have chosen them to handle most of my production.

There are many, many more photographs to choose from for these covers but here are a few.

They offer many models of the Samsung Galaxy and also several models of the iphone.

To purchase my phone covers just click on the images below.

2017-10-30T09:10:00.000-07:00

Mikey decided he wants to be a Lion for Halloween. Lol

Model is Mikey, he is roaring. Lol

Mikey's House (Page)

Mikey's House (website)

❤ MIKEY'S CAT HOUSE GROUP ❤

Pet First-Aid Kit

2017-06-07T10:56:00.000-07:00

DIY Pet First-Aid Kit

Use this kit in an emergency until your veterinarian can take over

Here’s What You’ll Need:

1) Phone number, clinic name, address of your veterinarian PLUS

contact info for local veterinary emergency clinics

2) Absorbent gauze pads

3) Adhesive tape

4) Cotton balls or swabs

5) Fresh 3% hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting

(always check with veterinarian or animal poison control expert before giving to your pet)

6) Ice pack

7) Disposable gloves

8) Scissors with blunt end PLUS tweezers

9) Over-the-counter antibiotic ointment

10) Liquid dishwashing detergent for bathing PLUS towels

11) Small flashlight

12) Oral syringe or kitchen baster

13) Alcohol wipes

14) Styptic powder

15) Saline eye solution PLUS artificial tear gel

For more information and a how-to videos

ASPCA

Mikey and Mitsi Dental Surgeries

2017-02-07T01:08:00.002-08:00

Mikey has a bad tooth and has been suffering with it for about a week. I will be taking him in on 2/10/17 which is when we get paid. His vet wants to do full blood work on him and then deal with his mouth which is going to cost a bit I am sure.

My problem is that Mitsi, my little rescue cat who has Stomatitis and had dental surgery several months ago is scheduled to go back into surgery on the 2/16/17.

I have 2 cats in pain and both need surgery within a week of the other and I am totally freaking out. I won't be able to afford to have them both done so I am asking for help. I have to at least try to come up with it.

Right now I have both cats on Buprenex which is crazy expensive. Mikey just started with the pain meds but Mitsi has been on it for months now.

I am just drained, having two of them going through this at the same time is wearing me out.

If you can help, that would be so great but if you cannot I totally understand. Prayers are needed too and I will gladly take those as well. I know some of you have already invested money for Mitsi's mouth and I thought it would be just one surgery but they did not take out all of her teeth like I thought they were going to because of the condition of her mouth which was just awful. Her Vet was having a tough time getting her gums to even hold a suture. So sad.

She was doing great for a little while after surgery but then it started creeping back because there are still teeth in her mouth... I just want this to be over for her, she has been through too much. This is our last chance because I won't put her through anymore.:(

As I said, we get paid on the 10th and will be able to cover most of it, just not all. their vet has been so awesome too, she goes above and beyond for my animals, she has been incredible. She is already giving me a discount on Mitsi and I just don't want to ask her for more after all she has already done.

Donations can be made here

https://pages.giveforward.com/medical/page-wlkh4n5/

or Directly to the Veterinary Hospital

Just give them the info below..

Mikey and Mitsi Dental Surgery
Newberg Veterinary Hospital
3716 E Portland Rd, Newberg, OR 97132
(503) 538-8303

Dr. Tina Johnson

Or you can also donate via my PayPal at ibjennyjenny@hotmail.com

Thank you.

I'm sorry I have to even ask.

Mikey's House (Page)

https://www.facebook.com/mikeyshouse/

Mikey's House (website)
http://www.mikeyshouse.org

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/mikeyscathouse

While he is sleeping

2016-12-11T18:52:00.002-08:00

I watch him as he is sleeping, so sweet, so peaceful.

I wonder if he really knows just how much he means to me,
and how many times he has saved me from the dark.

I watch him as he dreams, eyes flickering, hearing his cute little noises as he breathes.

Does he dream of wild things and running through the woods?

Does he dream of climbing trees and chasing birds?

I wonder if he dreams of something more....

Have I been to him, all that he is to me?

Wait for it....

2016-12-01T07:46:00.002-08:00

Today is 5 years....

2016-11-28T09:49:00.002-08:00

I rescued Roo from Sacramento many years ago he had been living at his house his whole life
but his owner died 2 years prior to us meeting. She was an elderly lady and one night she went
outside to feed Roo and she fell down and later died from her injuries.

The daughter of the lady then moves in and blames Roo for her mother's death and decides to
pretend that he just doesn't exist, she kicked him out of his own house.

When I met Roo, my heart just broke in two, he weighed only six pounds,his mouth was
so inflamed from bad teeth, his tongue stuck out and he drooled constantly.

I decided to rescue Roo and I took him home.

I took Roo to the vet for an exam 2 days later and their diagnosis was not good,
he had been so malnourished that there was not much left of him.
He had pharyngitis (strep throat), Stomatitis, ulcers inside his entire mouth
and he had an enlarged kidney, they recommended euthanasia.

Ok, well, I don't agree with making any animal suffer but I had just spent the weekend with Roo
prior to his vet visit, I looked into his eyes and it was so easy to see that all Roo wanted was to be loved. He was in bad shape but the thought of his story ending this way was too much for me to handle.

I told the vet 'no way' and I took Roo home. I wanted Roo to experience what it felt like to be loved
and cared for, if even for a little while I put Roo on a round of antibiotics and pain medication and hoped for the best.

4 weeks later I took Roo in to see a different Vet, he then weighed 10 pounds 14 ounces and he was thriving. He would eventually reach 16 pounds which is a far cry from the 6lbs when we first met.

He still had issues with his mouth but not like before, no drool and his tongue was back in his mouth because the swelling was gone.

The vet said that Roo looked great, she thought that at some point Roos teeth would need to be pulled, all of them but it would have to be later because he had been through too much already.

We actually managed his mouth issues for a long time.

Almost five years later Roo began feeling ill and we thought it was because of his teeth. We scheduled the surgery and they pulled all of his teeth but when Roo woke up from surgery he was blind, he had a bad reaction to the anesthesia. His blindness was permanent.

I was crushed. All I had ever wanted to do for Roo was help him but there he was so scared after surgery and in pain and I could barely even take it.

The following days he managed it better than I did and somehow he began to adjust a little to the sight loss., he would even go up and down the stairs in our house.

He was an inspiration.

But on November 28, 2011 I woke up to Roo being ill again, this time though, something was different, he sat with his nose to the ground and he just looked defeated. The vet thought at this point there may be a tumor or something and said we would have to do all of these tests but I chose to have Roo put to rest that day. The vet gave him a shot that would not take hold right away,...we lived up the road and I was able to get him there and sit with him all wrapped up in his blue blanket and watch him go peacefully as I told him how very much we loved him.

You know, Roo walked in to my life when my life was already full and some how found a place
that just belonged to him.

He is was my shadow, following me from room to room and when I would sleep he was under my chin, always.

He was Mikey's friend too.

When I think back to the time when Roo was out in the cold, starving, sick and all alone, as people did nothing but sit back and watch as he was slowly dying, I am angered and saddened all at the same time and I am thankful that I am not a person with the ability to just look away.

I am also thankful that I said 'no way' to putting Roo to sleep that day when we first met, it only reinforces my thoughts that if you listen to your heart, your heart will always show you the way.

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Roo was put to rest on November 28, 2011.

His presence in our lives is missed every single day.

Roo’s spirit taught me so much about appreciating life…right now.

His sweet soul and kind heart will live on…

for as long as I live, he shall not die.

YOU CAN SEE MORE OF ROO HERE

I wonder if they knew one another

2016-10-05T16:47:00.001-07:00

It's crazy because of all the scenarios I had played in my head while I was pregnant with my son back in 2003....

I never ever imagined it would go the way that it went.
There was no way to prepare for his death at all.

I was 6 1/2 months pregnant one minute, decorating his room, gathering things that he would need...nesting I suppose.

And then the next minute I was in hospital bed surrounded by nurses and Doctors who were telling me that my son was going to die as soon as he was born.... which was 12 long hours later. 12 hours of listening to his little heart beat inside of me, knowing it would soon come to a stop.

I suffered from a Placental Abruption, oh but I was suffering from so much more.

I held him afterwards for a long time, we even napped together for an hour. I got to put a diaper on him and a little hat and shirt and wrap him in a blanket. They took photos of him for me and before we left the hospital they gave us a little satin box that contained a birth/death certificate (not a certified one but a hand written one), it also contained these little cards with his hand prints on them and his footprints...a Keepsake Box .

Within a couple of days we were picking out his itty bitty casket and then a plot at the cemetery, his funeral was so surreal to me....I just wanted to go home. My heart ached, my head ached and my body ached...my body did not understand that he had died and so I had all the milk but no baby to feed, it was physically uncomfortable and emotionally excruciating.

On the way home I remember thinking about the little white kitten that had been following me around since my son had passed on...he had been sitting up with me each night as I cried and following me from room to room during the day.

Through all of the sorrow I was feeling in that moment after the funeral, I felt this little bit of comfort knowing he would be there when I got home...I mean that thought literally took the edge off...

Now, 13 years later I wonder if they knew one another, Mikey and my Son...

Because the plan worked so perfectly.

Or could this have been just one of those things?

I don't think so.

The footprints here belong to my Son and the Model is Mikey

You can read our entire story below if you want to.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mikeys-house/a-friendship-is-born-mikeys-story/817579804950845

In Memory of
Johnny Boyd Brown
A Little Boy Born too Soon
July 1, 2003- July 1, 2003

Mikey's House
https://www.facebook.com/mikeyshouse/
http://www.mikeyshouse.org/

Mikey's House

2016-09-06T19:50:00.000-07:00

Well....she made it through surgery ok....Thank God!

But Dr. Weber said her mouth was in REALLY bad shape.

He said it was so tore up that he could not even get her gums to hold a suture. (my poor girl :()

So...he wants to keep her a couple of days in the hospital but I barely have enough money to cover the surgery let alone 2 days in the hospital.

He said he needs to be able to flush her mouth out and keep a close eye on her.

I get that.

So back to fundraising I go, no fun no fun.

And to top it off I spent the entire day online with customer support for Wepay (donation pay site) trying to fix a problem that I never created. They had things all screwed up but finally came through at the end of the day and got things back together.

I am drained. I want to see her so bad. I am bummed she is not coming home tonight. :(

I know you have all done so much already but if you could at least share this maybe someone will want to help out.

Thanks everyone.

Mitsi's Donation Page

https://pages.giveforward.com/pet/page-2w2xgz5/

If you want to Donate directly to her Vet you can do that below

Newberg Veterinary Hospital

(503) 538-8303

(You will need to give them my name Jennifer Moore and Mitsi's name.)

You can also Donate by PayPal

My Paypal email is

ibjennyjenny@hotmail.com