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Well I passed that phase.... Today is exactly 1 month since he died.
Now I know he was in status epilepticus. A very mild state of epilepsy, it took me hours to realise that, but that night I did nothing, except gave him tablet for epilepsy and strokes his nose and hold his head whole night hoping it will be better and that the tablet will make it all better... obviously these epileptic seizures are so mild that with a cat like he was (not able to move) it was hard to notice at first... I cried whole morning again knowing this... I feel horrible now because of this... It was partly my fault for not recognising it sooner and delaying with the vet.
Sometimes when a cat has a lot of different diseases you are not sure anymore what is a disease and what is a life threatening status. With him it was hard to know sometimes. He went through so much of different stages where many cats would be put down...
Anyway, I feel awful, terrible and I know my part of the blame. I always knew he was going to do because of epilepsy, but I always imagined it as a big seizure which all of us would recognize... His seizures were really fierce usually and lastin up to 40 seconds or more ... but these were like a 3 second long seizures and then he would fall asleep (or who knows what type of state now!)...
Now I know he was in status epilepticus. A very mild state of epilepsy, it took me hours to realise that, but that night I did nothing, except gave him tablet for epilepsy and strokes his nose and hold his head whole night hoping it will be better and that the tablet will make it all better... obviously these epileptic seizures are so mild that with a cat like he was (not able to move) it was hard to notice at first... I cried whole morning again knowing this... I feel horrible now because of this... It was partly my fault for not recognising it sooner and delaying with the vet.
Sometimes when a cat has a lot of different diseases you are not sure anymore what is a disease and what is a life threatening status. With him it was hard to know sometimes. He went through so much of different stages where many cats would be put down...
Anyway, I feel awful, terrible and I know my part of the blame. I always knew he was going to do because of epilepsy, but I always imagined it as a big seizure which all of us would recognize... His seizures were really fierce usually and lastin up to 40 seconds or more ... but these were like a 3 second long seizures and then he would fall asleep (or who knows what type of state now!)...