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Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
Last night, I prayed istikhara, pleading with Allah to guide me to through this life or death decision. I consulted with my family, friends, and the veterinarian. While I had hoped for a few more days, everyone agreed, Fiasco had other needs. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
Because I believe in miracles. I also believe that if my prayers were not answered as asked, that they may be answered with something better for him and me. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
As he refused to eat, when the steroids did not work, I begged Allah to have mercy on him. I prayed for a cure, even when I thought a cure was impossible. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
When he started to get sick, I worried. I knew he had a pre-existing condition. But the grief and shock when the doctor told me he was terminal, paralleled some of the hardest moments in my life prior. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
I know deep down that the only permanence is with Allah. Still, I forget. Fiasco is among my best friends, my roommate, my companion, my family. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
Just as recently as a few days ago, he broke into the cabinets through a crevice I didn’t even know existed to tear up his snack bags and eat his treats before Fajr. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
These last few weeks have been blessed. I have had more time with him than ever before. He’d wake up when he wanted, trounce around my conference calls, and insist on lap time when he so chose. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
He had the most incredible network of aunties. They would visit him, feed him, and clean up after him when I traveled for work. He was loved by them, my parents, my nieces, and seemingly all of the people who read about him over the years. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
My favorites were when he would headbutt my forehead, attempt to groom me, and fight me for my ice cream. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
He would greet me when I came home, meowing until I sat down to pet him. He humbled me when I cleaned his messes in all the places he left them. He made sleeping easier when he buried himself in the sheets with me. Sometimes his early morning shenanigans would wake me up to pray. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
Fiasco stayed with me in my divorce. I sometimes told prospects I’d meet, I didn’t have children from my first marriage but did have full custody of our cat. For an extrovert, living alone is hard. But Fiasco took such good care of me. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
We doted over him in every way possible but he was always in charge. He owned our homes, left his fur all over our clothes, broke in to sleep in any location he ever wanted, and frequently interrupted efforts to work from home, crawling on to our laptops and keyboards. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
He was named in my then in-laws’ tradition, after a famous activist. We chose Lupe Fiasco, one of our favorite hip hop artists, someone who had supported the Occupy movement, and an American Muslim. Over the years, we grew more attached to him than I could imagine. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
They said he could live with the virus for years, heathy. But as he aged, it would be challenging. If he developed another illness, he may not be able to fight it. We knew that we wanted to care for him and understood the uncertainty. But all life is uncertain and time bound. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
We worried it would be difficult to find a home in his condition even though he was otherwise adorable and healthy. More than that though, when he immediately crawled in to our laps, he found his way in to our hearts. We left impulsive, but proud, cat parents. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
As much as they loved him, they needed to segregate him from their other pets. Would we be open to considering an FIV+ cat? Yes, of course. We went to their house that night to meet him, for consideration. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
We were at a dinner party, joking that having a cat would be practice for having kids. Another guest overhead us and spoke up. They had recently rescued a stray who they learned had Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV). — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
“Verily we belong to Allah, and verily to Him do we return." https://t.co/ooNQQM9ndK — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
I just can’t stop crying. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
The most humane thing to do is to put him to sleep. His health will not got better from here, and delaying the inevitable is selfish at best and cruel at worst. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
She gave him some steroids to minimize the mass and enable him to eat. Her recommendation was that I take a few days to be with him but bring him back before the steroids wear off. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
She said they found a cancerous mass under his tongue. It is in an inoperable location. Radiation is an option and could extend his life some but would not cure him. It is also a lot to put his body through. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
This morning I was able to get him in to see a veterinarian on a same day appointment. Doing so in the middle of a pandemic means I could not go in to the clinic with him. 15 minutes in to his exam, the doctor called me. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
My parents have been making and sending duas since I told them yesterday. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
My concerns increased as I found matted fur on his legs and noticed he was drooling. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
Over the weekend I noticed some peculiar differences in his behavior. He was more interested in water but not drinking. He meowed at his food but was never finishing it. The very same treats he broke into my cabinets for one day were left uneaten the next. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
Many of you have met Fiasco on video calls over the last few weeks. Many more of you have heard me rave about him over the last nearly decade that I have had him. He is family. — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
I haven’t been this broken in a long time. https://t.co/rFgGcm1PP4 — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
RT @Remroum: 10,000 deaths in New York by tomorrow. Joe Biden should step down and hand things off to Bernie Sanders. This pandemic is too… — PolitiTweet.org
Zahra Billoo @ZahraBilloo
@Margari_Aziza 💕🤲🏽 — PolitiTweet.org
