The Antibiotic That Killed My Cat

Why didn’t they wait until her labs came back?

Mary McGrath
inkMend
Published in
3 min readNov 9, 2019

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Photo by Karina Vorozheeva on Unsplash

Last summer, a heat wave was cooking Culver City. Our town had never had a problem with heat until recent years. Now, every summer is up for grabs with the whims of the weather.

Two of our cats handled the searing temperatures fairly well, but the third was lying listlessly up in the loft unable to…

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Mary McGrath
inkMend

Top writer in humor, short stories, writing, advice and poetry. She’s written for Newsweek, Wall St. Journal, Good Housekeeping, and Chicken Soup for the Soul.