My lovely 19 year old girl had radioactive iodine treatment for a massively out of control thyroid last year, she had terrible diarrhoea on the pills and looked skeletal.
It's a gentle non invasive treatment so I thought ok lets do it because she's still very happy with life and if it gives her another couple of happy years then great.
All worked out great and she's ben top of the world, eating, playing, happy and cuddly. She put all the weight she lost back on and loves going out into the garden.
She was supposed to have a series of blood tests following that treatment but my thinking was why? She's 19 I'm not letting her have the treatment again if it's failed so why subject her to invasive blood taking if she's happy and well and eating and putting on weight.
Anyway I kept getting reminders endlessly by phone and email to say I really must get a check so took her off for just the one blood test thinking it would be ok.
Well it wasn't she bit, growled, hissed, scratched and generally went feral so the vet said they were keeping her in to sedate her and do the tests under sedation, I wasn't thrilled because last time she had a general anaesthetic she was inches away from being PTS.
They rung me later that afternoon to pick her up £400 later because of admission costs and she was in a right state, loads of fur shaved off, kept bleeding from the blood letting sites on her leg and chest, looked properly pissed off and was so drunk she couldn't stand up, it took her all evening before she could properly stand without falling over, I had to carry her to the litter tray a few times.
Even this morning she isn't right.
I feel so guilty and horrible putting her through this, it was my instinct to let her be and now she's in this state and minus a ton of fur which will take ages to grow back.
But that's it now, no more tests, no more pills nothing. I just hope she gets over this Poor kitty.
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madcatladyforever · 23/06/2020 12:50
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