JanaS, I am praying for you and your cat and the trials you are having. God does make us stronger through trials, though it doesn't seem so at the time. "Count it as pure joy brothers and sisters when you face trials of my kinds, because you kn w that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work in you that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing." James 1: 2-4