Unfortunately for Scribbins, breast cancer wasn’t the first threat made to her well-being. “But I’m not above looking like a crazy cat lady if it means someone else is alerted to a health problem sooner than I was.” “I don’t blame people who don’t believe me,” she insisted. Scribbins doesn’t mind being publicly referred to as a “crazy cat lady” if it means her story will inspire others to notice health warning signs from their pets. Scribbins credits Oggy, who she rescued 15 years ago, with detecting her malignancy at its early stages.īut she accepts that most skeptics and non-pet owners will largely poo-poo her pussycat’s prophetic powers. “I look back on the changes in his behavior towards me before my breast cancer diagnosis and I truly believe he was trying to alert me to the dangers growing in my body.” “It wasn’t until I felt the lump and got the dreaded diagnosis that I realized what he had been trying to tell me all along,” Scribbins said. Scribbins, a married health-care fraud investigator, performed a self-examination on her breasts and discovered a lump.Ī post shared by Stomachless_Kate was later diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer, and she immediately underwent several rounds of chemotherapy, multiple surgeries and radiation.

Then one morning, after months of noticing her rescue animal’s unusual behavior, the Saint Paul, Minnesota native awoke to a shooting pain radiating throughout her body. He seemed more determined than ever to make sure he was lying near my left breast.” “I would try and direct him someplace else, but he just wouldn’t have it. “Oggy has always loved to snuggle up in my arms but he began to snuggle more aggressively than usual, which was odd,” Scribbins, 35, told Caters News. Kate King-Scribbins believes her pet kitty let the cat out of the bag, alerting her to a cancerous mass growing inside her left breast. Robot waiters, rubber shoes and 7 more trends set to take over in 2022Īnimal instincts might have saved her life.

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