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Hello, my 8 year old cat passed away yesterday unexpectedly. Last Monday on 7/29 I took her to the vet bc she wasnt eating and she had vaginal discharge the vet said she had pyometra and needed surgery that day. He said she would be his last surgery so she would need to stay the night. He called me about 6pm that day to say that the surgery went well but that my cat was very dehydrated when she came in and her kidney enzyme levels were high so the next 24 hrs are critical and he would need to keep her there to give her fluids. The next day they call and tell me kitty is doing better she is eating, drinking, and moving around but they still need to give her fluids so she needs to stay one more night. On Wed we pick her up and she seems fine, she does seem a little disoriented bc she is walking around our house almost like she doesnt recognize it but eventually she is back to normal eating, drinking, using her litter box, jumping on and off the bed being her usual self. On Thursday she seems fine she lays in kitty bed around 10:30pm and about an hour later she woke up running into things, she was blind. On Friday morning I take her back to the vet they run lab work and do an exam and say that everything looks normal so they send me to an ophthalmologist. In the few hours between the vet and the eye doctor her balance is off and she is having a hard time standing. They do several eye test and say its not a vision problem but looks more like a neurological issue and suggest I take her to see a neurologist. Over the weekend she shows less interest in her food and was hardly drinking water, she was walking very low to the ground and running into walls. Yesterday morning(Wednesday) she died, I have no answers bc the vet doesnt seem to know what could have caused it, he claims that the surgery went well but I guess I will never know that either. I had an apt today to take her to the neurologist but my cat didnt make it so we never got to do that. We are heartbroken and I'm trying to wrap my head around what happened and how my healthy cat went in for pyometra surgery and a week later died.
