Mew is 12 years old, but he will be 13 in October.
For the past month, Mew has been sick. It started off gradual and quickly escalated. He started throwing up every once every week, then it became a few times a week, and it escalated to every day or sometimes multiple times a day. Mew also lost a lot of weight, stopped eating, and barely was moving except to go to the bathroom. After a ultra sound, we discovered that Mew has Lymphoma in the small intestine and we instantly broke down crying. We have heard that Chemotherapy is a option for Mew. Unfortunately the vet isn't sure how many Chemotherapy sessions Mew will need or how much it will help him. If anyone has any experience with Chemotherapy of Lymphoma's, please let me know if it's worth it. Does it really make a huge difference, will the cat live a lot longer the treatments, and how likely is the cat able to go into remission? I would love any information and opinions we could get.
Unfortunately the problems don't end there. Since last Friday, Mew has been syringe fed since he is unable to eat on his own. He has a medicine prescribed that stops him from throwing up and that is suppose to increase his appetite. Unfortunately the appetite stimulates haven't been working and he still can't eat on his own. He was doing okay with the syringe feeding, the first day. But since yesterday and today, he is drooling and looking sick when we try to syringe feed him. He spits a lot of the food back up when we put it in his mouth. He hasn't threw up, but he looks really sick. It breaks our hearts since were doing everything we can to save him and help him get better. We are going to call our vet when the clinic opens tomorrow morning, but please let me know if you have any idea what could be causing this and what I can do to help Mew.
For the past month, Mew has been sick. It started off gradual and quickly escalated. He started throwing up every once every week, then it became a few times a week, and it escalated to every day or sometimes multiple times a day. Mew also lost a lot of weight, stopped eating, and barely was moving except to go to the bathroom. After a ultra sound, we discovered that Mew has Lymphoma in the small intestine and we instantly broke down crying. We have heard that Chemotherapy is a option for Mew. Unfortunately the vet isn't sure how many Chemotherapy sessions Mew will need or how much it will help him. If anyone has any experience with Chemotherapy of Lymphoma's, please let me know if it's worth it. Does it really make a huge difference, will the cat live a lot longer the treatments, and how likely is the cat able to go into remission? I would love any information and opinions we could get.
Unfortunately the problems don't end there. Since last Friday, Mew has been syringe fed since he is unable to eat on his own. He has a medicine prescribed that stops him from throwing up and that is suppose to increase his appetite. Unfortunately the appetite stimulates haven't been working and he still can't eat on his own. He was doing okay with the syringe feeding, the first day. But since yesterday and today, he is drooling and looking sick when we try to syringe feed him. He spits a lot of the food back up when we put it in his mouth. He hasn't threw up, but he looks really sick. It breaks our hearts since were doing everything we can to save him and help him get better. We are going to call our vet when the clinic opens tomorrow morning, but please let me know if you have any idea what could be causing this and what I can do to help Mew.
