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| Topic | Possibly losing my cat soon, and i feel like a failure |
| PepsiWithCoke 11/09/21 12:26:06 AM #1: | So around Friday, 13-year-old Mr. Kitty didn't eat his breakfast or dinner, thought it was weird, but maybe he just wasn't hungry. He didn't eat Saturday either, except for a couple of pieces of deli ham I gave him and some treats, which he promptly chucked up. Sunday I noticed he was going pale, the pale turned to yellow over the day, he was also doing nothing but sitting in bed and sitting by the water bowl. Today we got an appointment at the vet, took him in thinking his tooth was bad and that's why he wouldn't eat, vet looked at him for 10 seconds and said it's jaundice, and he likely has major liver issues, they gave him a shot of fluids and nausea medications while we wait for the blood panels to come back, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. Though we're still waiting on the blood work to come back, everything I've read as far as treatment is horrifying, weeks in the emergency hospital, needing to be fed through a tube for 2-3 months, and of course, the chance that none of it works anyway, and he dies after suffering in a strange room with strange people. It's not that I don't have the money for the treatment, or don't want him to get better, I just don't think I can in good conscience put him through that much pain and suffering. But since I have the money, I feel terrible that I'm barely even considering the extreme interventions, like I'm somehow letting him die because it's cheaper. But would I be doing what's best for him by putting him through hell, or would I be doing it to avoid putting myself through hell having to put him down. I failed. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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