Christina & Toofy
Member Since 2021
I wanted to post a follow-up for anyone who was following along with my questions a few days ago.
Our vet-visit on the 20th didn't provide many answers, but it did show us more of the troubles she was facing. Her kidney values were very high, which explained why her drinking and peeing never really improved. She had some anomalies in her blood count work that suggested the possibility of some kind of infection, but nothing clear cut, as her WBC was still normal.
They don't offer ultrasound at that location, but they did do several x-rays, which were nearly impossible to read due to how much the fluid (if that's all it was) obscured the contents of her abdomen. They also showed some fluid starting to build up in her lungs. I originally scheduled an ultrasound for this week at another vet, but after the first visit her iron-clad appetite finally started to go. She wanted to eat, but the pressure on her organs was making it very hard to do.
She was trying so hard, and still "in there", but also clearly unable to get comfortable or move around easily, and started to stare off into the distance instead of sleeping. It felt very selfish to put her through even more tests just for clearer answers when I knew we'd end up at the same place in the end.
So on Monday, after a little meal of the most tempting things I could find for her, me and her other favorite person made the trip with her back to the vet to let her go as peacefully as we could manage. We brought along her favorite biscuit-making-and-snuggling pillow, so she'd have something to keep her head up when she started to get sleepy and hopefully help her think of home. I'm thankful to have my other furbabies around to soften the blow, but she will be so very missed. She was a tiny gem of a cat, and I always be thankful we were lucky enough to bring her home with us.
But I can't imagine how much more stressful the last 10 months would have been without the archives and active advice of this forum. I'm so thankful to have had access to the collected knowledge and support available here--it helped immensely during all of this extra time we got with her, post DX. When she was DX'd in March, I so wanted her to have another summer with lots of outside time, and thankfully we got to give her that and a little more.
Our vet-visit on the 20th didn't provide many answers, but it did show us more of the troubles she was facing. Her kidney values were very high, which explained why her drinking and peeing never really improved. She had some anomalies in her blood count work that suggested the possibility of some kind of infection, but nothing clear cut, as her WBC was still normal.
They don't offer ultrasound at that location, but they did do several x-rays, which were nearly impossible to read due to how much the fluid (if that's all it was) obscured the contents of her abdomen. They also showed some fluid starting to build up in her lungs. I originally scheduled an ultrasound for this week at another vet, but after the first visit her iron-clad appetite finally started to go. She wanted to eat, but the pressure on her organs was making it very hard to do.
She was trying so hard, and still "in there", but also clearly unable to get comfortable or move around easily, and started to stare off into the distance instead of sleeping. It felt very selfish to put her through even more tests just for clearer answers when I knew we'd end up at the same place in the end.
So on Monday, after a little meal of the most tempting things I could find for her, me and her other favorite person made the trip with her back to the vet to let her go as peacefully as we could manage. We brought along her favorite biscuit-making-and-snuggling pillow, so she'd have something to keep her head up when she started to get sleepy and hopefully help her think of home. I'm thankful to have my other furbabies around to soften the blow, but she will be so very missed. She was a tiny gem of a cat, and I always be thankful we were lucky enough to bring her home with us.
But I can't imagine how much more stressful the last 10 months would have been without the archives and active advice of this forum. I'm so thankful to have had access to the collected knowledge and support available here--it helped immensely during all of this extra time we got with her, post DX. When she was DX'd in March, I so wanted her to have another summer with lots of outside time, and thankfully we got to give her that and a little more.
(((hugs))))