kxk34
Member Since 2022
I am sad to say that it appears we've reached the end of the road with our sweet Fuzzy.
We had to take her to the emergency vet at a referral center last night because the local vet thought she may have had a stroke based on some neurological symptoms she was showing when we brought her in to get her weekly injections. The vet at the hospital thinks that it seems like she more likely was having seizures based on how quickly she bounced back in between episodes of severe neurological symptoms (stretched out legs, wide eyes, and severely pronounced head tilt). They suspect it is because Fuzzy either had cancer after all that may have metastasized to her brain, or that she has another type of cancer in her brain. We had previously attributed alopecia to the prednisolone as a side effect, but recently she started to get alopecia on her nose that they said appears more consistent with neoplastic alopecia because the skin on her nose is smooth and almost shiny in appearance. Sadly, if she did have cancer this whole time it seems like our decision to reduce the pred very likely may have precipitated her sudden deterioration, which is very hard to hear because the reasons we had for reducing the pred (other than her diabetes) were related to her experiencing bad side effects that we now know may have also been related to cancer instead of the pred as we previously thought. We cannot know for sure what is going on either way because the ultrasound she received today didn't tell us anything new and the vet said that she does not recommend further diagnostics at this point because it is highly likely that it would not yield a treatable diagnosis and anything else would require heavy sedation or anesthesia and she has a very high risk for requiring euthanasia during the procedure or never waking up from anesthesia given her current condition. They are going to try to give her some stuff to make sure that she is comfortable so that she can come home from the hospital for the night to spend some time with us and then we will take her to a local vet tomorrow to be put to sleep.
I just wanted to give this update and say thank you to @FrostD, @Wendy&Neko, and everyone else for everything you all have done to help advise us as we tried to get a handle on her diabetes diagnosis during these last few months. It is doubtful that we would have made it this far without the advice and knowledge we've gained from this forum (and the IBD kitties group on facebook) and we are so so grateful. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you.
We had to take her to the emergency vet at a referral center last night because the local vet thought she may have had a stroke based on some neurological symptoms she was showing when we brought her in to get her weekly injections. The vet at the hospital thinks that it seems like she more likely was having seizures based on how quickly she bounced back in between episodes of severe neurological symptoms (stretched out legs, wide eyes, and severely pronounced head tilt). They suspect it is because Fuzzy either had cancer after all that may have metastasized to her brain, or that she has another type of cancer in her brain. We had previously attributed alopecia to the prednisolone as a side effect, but recently she started to get alopecia on her nose that they said appears more consistent with neoplastic alopecia because the skin on her nose is smooth and almost shiny in appearance. Sadly, if she did have cancer this whole time it seems like our decision to reduce the pred very likely may have precipitated her sudden deterioration, which is very hard to hear because the reasons we had for reducing the pred (other than her diabetes) were related to her experiencing bad side effects that we now know may have also been related to cancer instead of the pred as we previously thought. We cannot know for sure what is going on either way because the ultrasound she received today didn't tell us anything new and the vet said that she does not recommend further diagnostics at this point because it is highly likely that it would not yield a treatable diagnosis and anything else would require heavy sedation or anesthesia and she has a very high risk for requiring euthanasia during the procedure or never waking up from anesthesia given her current condition. They are going to try to give her some stuff to make sure that she is comfortable so that she can come home from the hospital for the night to spend some time with us and then we will take her to a local vet tomorrow to be put to sleep.
I just wanted to give this update and say thank you to @FrostD, @Wendy&Neko, and everyone else for everything you all have done to help advise us as we tried to get a handle on her diabetes diagnosis during these last few months. It is doubtful that we would have made it this far without the advice and knowledge we've gained from this forum (and the IBD kitties group on facebook) and we are so so grateful. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you.
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