Rita was born in the middle of a roundabout in the spring of 2021, there, in the middle of dirt and cars, her mummy had 5 kittens hidden among the plants. When we rescued them, their brother Mango couldn't stand it and a few days later he died. 
Their mummy was sterilised, dewormed and left again in the colony, free.
Rita was the smallest of them all and came full of parasites and with a terrible constipation that made us think the worst, but she showed what a fighter she was and was able to cope with everything. 
In August, when we went to vaccinate her, they saw that she had a slight fever which despite treatment did not go away, they changed her medication and it went away. They also tested her for AIDS and leukaemia (negative) and a complete blood test which came out fine. But she was very small, she weighed less than a kilo and her siblings weighed more than three kg. Everything seemed to be fine, Rita didn't eat much and was always in pain.
Then we noticed that one of her eyes was cloudy and swollen and a few days later the other one. We went to the vet again, they sent medication and referred her to the ophthalmologist, at that moment the word "FIP" was already hanging over Rita.  When we arrived at the ophthalmologist's surgery, Rita was running a fever. They took blood for a serology for typhoid and looked at her eyes...at that moment they told us that they were undoubtedly typhoid eyes and that there was little that could be done. They also did a complete biochemistry to rule out other diseases but everything was fine...the terrible disease was confirmed.
We have never cried so much coming back from the vet, as Rita was barely eating and moving. She would stare at her food but she couldn't and her teeth were grinding. 
They were very sad days, we couldn't believe it, we couldn't think that it was all over, that we only had to say goodbye to Rita. We couldn't give up and we started to investigate and find out about a treatment that we had read about in great detail. Luckily we found an exceptional group that informed us about this treatment and that it was giving very good results, but, there is always a but, the treatment is very long, very hard and very expensive as it is not marketed here in Spain and has to be brought from abroad, but it is the only hope there is, a burning nail to which we cling to snatch Rita from the clutches of death.
This is a long-distance race, a minimum of 84 days of treatment, 84 daily injections at the same time every day that will give Rita a chance to live.