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Can't stand to see her like this anymore. We're praying for a miracle
On Aug 19, 12:02 am, wrote:
I posted here about my cat several months ago, back when she was first diagnosed. In short, she has some sort of auto immune disease or maythat started to come on in February. When it started we thought it was a cold. It began with voice loss, lethargy, and a severe thirst. She was severely anemic and killing her blood cells. She was put on steroids but they completely surpress her immune system, making her extremely vulnerable to infections. She got a couple of urinary track infections where we had her peeing and dribbling blood on the floor. She's infected eyes for awhile now. The vet gave us some eye drops to see if it cleared it up, but it's not doing anything. We think that one of her eyes has now been destroyed, and if a miracle ever does happen, it will have to be removed. You wouldn't believe how she looks. Her right eye is disgusting. It's just a solid brown mass of goo that constantly drips down her face. She's somewhat emaciated and she has dried medicine and food stuck on her face (it's impossible to keep her clean) and on parts of her body. Basically, she looks like a corpse that someone pulled out of a dumpster. At one point I actually looked at her and burst into tears. However, her appetite is great (but she's still emaciated, which makes me think cancer...) and despite not being able to see worth a darn, she's getting around quite well. She hasn't begun staggering again, so that's good. We took her off the steroids a while ago because it's so terrible on the body and causes infection after infection. We THOUGHT she was recovering but the other morning I put her in her box (she sometimes has to be carried because she can't see well) and she passed out and litter was plastered all over the side of her face, mixed with the goo from her eye. I was horrified that she had begun fainting again, a sign that her blood count is plummeting again. I was home alone for awhile later that day and she kept passing out. At one point she was lieing on the kitchen rub, making sounds like she was actually struggling to breathe. I lost it and called my mom on her cell and started crying, saying she was dieing on me. I layed out a blanket for her and put on her favorite music (that cat has a thing for Josh Groban, Il Divo, and the like). Since then (the other day) she's stopped fainting and her breathing (thank God) seems perfectly normal. But at this point the vet says it's the end of the road, her chance of making a recovery are slim to none. The last thing we want is to see her suffer (and trust me, it's heart-breaking to see how disgusting she looks right now), but since her appetite is good and she's stopped fainting, we're just waiting right now. We know the time has probably come to euthanize her, but it's just too damn hard. These next couple of days, we're just praying for a miracle, biding time. She's been a beloved member of the family since I was 9 years old (I'm now 20). If there was something that could be done at this point, money would be no object, but it looks like it's the end of the road. The vet doesn't see any hope. It's just been so cruel. One minute you think she's getting better, and then she crashes again. The decision is ultimately yours, and only you can make it. But if it were me, I'd let her go. It's the hardest thing in the world to do. I am so sorry. Sherry |
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