Sprinkles

Sprinkles the Cat had fuzzy white hair, an adventurous spirit, and an owner named Janie.

Janie's dad collected Cracker Jack toys. He had a vast menagerie of tinted magnifying glasses, penny whistles, and little rubber lizards. But the most prized toy of all was the engagement ring he'd given his wife. ten days after the accident, he visited her in the hospital bed and removed it from her comatose hand.

When her body finally died, ten years after her brain, he placed that ring in a glass case that he kept in her sewing room.

Therefore, the vet's words, "Sprinkles will probably pass it in a week," were a great relief to him.