Apologies in advance for a long and post.
Our lovely 6 year old female mog has been unwell for the last couple of months. It started with some unusual amounts of vomiting but otherwise totally 'normal' behaviour. The vet did blood and stool tests which revealed nothing amiss. We agreed to wait and see over Christmas/New Year and initially we were optimistic as the vomiting stopped but in the last 10 days she became increasingly reluctant to eat very much at all and in the last 2 or 3 is basically totally anorexic. She'd lost some weight during the vomiting phase anyway but she's extremely bony now (we're taking basically bones and fur). She went back to the vet on Friday who palpated a hard lump in her pelvic area and thickened intestine, so booked her in for an ultrasound on Tuesday (earliest they could do).
After the appointment she has become a entirely different cat, lethargic, weak, glazed dilated eyes, wheezy purring constantly, unsteady and awkward gait and completely food averse. My gut tells me she's on her way out but when we took her in to the vet this am because we were so worried they just gave us some special food (which I tried syringing but she spat most of it out) and said to wait for Tuesday.
I feel like we're prolonging her suffering, and I hate seeing her in so much obvious pain but obviously if the vets can do something, anything to keep her with us I'd want to know but don't know if that's just us being entirely selfish because we love her so much.
I am now wondering if we ought to be calling them tomorrow for a more humane end to her misery but am completely yo-yoing between that and waiting it out, if she lasts that long. What might you do in this situation?
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TheRainDrops · 10/01/2015 22:45
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