Easter the one-eyed kitten quickly using up her nine lives

Meet Easter, the "extraordinarily optimistic kitten."

For this tiny feline, things had to get worse before they got better.

Easter the kitten was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia after someone dumped her pregnant mother there.

A kind woman allowed Easter's family to live in her yard, and had them spayed and neutered.

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Easter was still free to roam where she pleased — and disappeared with one of her siblings for a while. When she returned, she had a bad eye infection.

The woman with the yard was unable to pay for Easter's much-needed surgery, so another woman stepped in. She had experience in animal rescue and rehabilitation, and enough room on her farm to welcome Easter to her brood.

The woman helped Easter get the surgery she needed — and it went horribly wrong.

"We raised money for her eye surgery in a day or two and she was taken in immediately to a local vet who will remain unnamed but did a very poor quality job on her enucleation in fact she didn't remove poor Easter's eye at all but simply folded the skin of her eyelids over the eye and sewed it shut," she wrote on Facebook. "Due to this her eye socket is filled with horrible resistant bacteria and would not ever had stood a chance of healing if not reopened, the horribly infected eye removed, drained and cleaned."

Shortly after, the small cat came down with a severe stomach problem.

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Her new caregiver got her top-quality care at the Virginia-Maryland vet school where vets could treat Easter's raging eye infection, redo the botched surgery, and treat scary parvo symptoms. Easter's human friend chronicled the resilient kitten's medical journey on Facebook.

Now on strong antibiotics, 6-month-old Easter appears to finally be in good health. Her caregiver continues to raise funds to cover her medical bills.

"So far, so good. She has been playing like crazy and wants me to carry her everywhere. If I choose to ignore that, she has no problem racing up my leg and onto my shoulder," Easter's rescuer wrote. "She is a true fighter and no matter what awful things she's gone through she's never stopped purring. That's her story so far."