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I´ll try to make a long story short. I joined here hoping someone has gone through this.
When my female cat was 12, she was running and jumping around inside chasing birds at the window, and within 5 minutes she was walking slow and did not want to jump down from the chair. I noticed she had a mid-sized bump on her left side. I hold the cat every day and 15 minutes earlier I did not feel or see any bump.
I immediately brought her to the vet, they said it is a tumor and she still has time left in her and they operated to remove it. After the operation they said the tumor was huge and went through in different directions of the cat and they do not know if they got it all, but they doubt it. They said if the tumor comes back they cannot operate on her again because there is not enough skin left on her stomach to do another operation, and that they expect her to live 2 more months. But because they were unsure they asked me to bring the cat into the vet every day for 21 days to use a laser to heal the wound (it was having trouble healing because the skin was so thin) and they also checked her out each day. After 24 hours she was eating normal and within 7 days she was 90% back to normal, I guess it took her about 14-18 days to be 100% her old self ie jumping around, flying off of the chair, etc. On the 18th day the cat was standing on the bed and then just flew oddly to her side and although all of her limps and head were moving, she could not stand up ie it seemed like she had control to move her body and legs but not do what she wanted them to do. She crawled oddly while flipping around on her sides across the bed. This lasted about 30 seconds. She then sat there for about 3-5 minutes and then just stood up and walked around all normal again.
I called the vet and they said i don´t need to bring the cat in anymore as the stress may have assisted in what happened to her, and that they believe it was a stroke, but the cats recover themselves from strokes so I do not need to do anything as she has gone through enough already.
For the next 11 months and 3 days the cat has been 100% healthy, just like before the operation. She still gas a lot of youth left in her.
But then yesterday she had this "stroke" again, ie one year later, and again it lasted for about 30 seconds and after 3-5 minutes she was jumping all around again playing. And the new thing this time was after she gained most control she sat up (did not lay down) and her head was slowly bouncing in the air to the right and to the left, back and forth, for 1-2 minutes.
To try to describe it better, imagine the cat is sitting on the bed, she then stands up and immediately falls quickly to the left onto her side, she is trying to stand up but cannot so she was grabbing the bedsheet with her claws moving herself across the bed. Every time she tries to stand up she falls back down oddly to her side, she looks completely scared - wide open eyes - but i cannot tell if she is aware of me there or not - and after 30 seconds she sat up and bounced her head left to right to left to right for 1-2 minutes. Than she was 100% normal again. She even ate right afterwards.
So has anyone seen this or experienced this, and if not what would your guess be; brain tumor, seizure, mini stroke, big stroke, another disease, or just the cancer in her stomach making weird things happen?
btw I work from home and someone is with the cat about 95% of the time as she is always next to whoever is home, so it is unlikely this has happened often.
I know it is sad but i´ve already accepted last year that she is sick and she will die, I know she has cancer inside of her and one day out of the blue the tumor will pop back out and we´ll have to put her to sleep. After 3 months of worrying for her I finally had to accept it, but she gets spoiled more since I did so I try to make her life more enjoyable while she is still here.
Any opinions or experience would be really nice as the vet said I don´t have to bring her in as they said on the phone it is just a stroke and as she is already sick and it seldom happens that there is nothing they can do for her.
When my female cat was 12, she was running and jumping around inside chasing birds at the window, and within 5 minutes she was walking slow and did not want to jump down from the chair. I noticed she had a mid-sized bump on her left side. I hold the cat every day and 15 minutes earlier I did not feel or see any bump.
I immediately brought her to the vet, they said it is a tumor and she still has time left in her and they operated to remove it. After the operation they said the tumor was huge and went through in different directions of the cat and they do not know if they got it all, but they doubt it. They said if the tumor comes back they cannot operate on her again because there is not enough skin left on her stomach to do another operation, and that they expect her to live 2 more months. But because they were unsure they asked me to bring the cat into the vet every day for 21 days to use a laser to heal the wound (it was having trouble healing because the skin was so thin) and they also checked her out each day. After 24 hours she was eating normal and within 7 days she was 90% back to normal, I guess it took her about 14-18 days to be 100% her old self ie jumping around, flying off of the chair, etc. On the 18th day the cat was standing on the bed and then just flew oddly to her side and although all of her limps and head were moving, she could not stand up ie it seemed like she had control to move her body and legs but not do what she wanted them to do. She crawled oddly while flipping around on her sides across the bed. This lasted about 30 seconds. She then sat there for about 3-5 minutes and then just stood up and walked around all normal again.
I called the vet and they said i don´t need to bring the cat in anymore as the stress may have assisted in what happened to her, and that they believe it was a stroke, but the cats recover themselves from strokes so I do not need to do anything as she has gone through enough already.
For the next 11 months and 3 days the cat has been 100% healthy, just like before the operation. She still gas a lot of youth left in her.
But then yesterday she had this "stroke" again, ie one year later, and again it lasted for about 30 seconds and after 3-5 minutes she was jumping all around again playing. And the new thing this time was after she gained most control she sat up (did not lay down) and her head was slowly bouncing in the air to the right and to the left, back and forth, for 1-2 minutes.
To try to describe it better, imagine the cat is sitting on the bed, she then stands up and immediately falls quickly to the left onto her side, she is trying to stand up but cannot so she was grabbing the bedsheet with her claws moving herself across the bed. Every time she tries to stand up she falls back down oddly to her side, she looks completely scared - wide open eyes - but i cannot tell if she is aware of me there or not - and after 30 seconds she sat up and bounced her head left to right to left to right for 1-2 minutes. Than she was 100% normal again. She even ate right afterwards.
So has anyone seen this or experienced this, and if not what would your guess be; brain tumor, seizure, mini stroke, big stroke, another disease, or just the cancer in her stomach making weird things happen?
btw I work from home and someone is with the cat about 95% of the time as she is always next to whoever is home, so it is unlikely this has happened often.
I know it is sad but i´ve already accepted last year that she is sick and she will die, I know she has cancer inside of her and one day out of the blue the tumor will pop back out and we´ll have to put her to sleep. After 3 months of worrying for her I finally had to accept it, but she gets spoiled more since I did so I try to make her life more enjoyable while she is still here.
Any opinions or experience would be really nice as the vet said I don´t have to bring her in as they said on the phone it is just a stroke and as she is already sick and it seldom happens that there is nothing they can do for her.