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Hello everyone. I’m getting increasingly desperate, extremely concerned, I’m running out of money, and my poor cat is running out of time. I’m sorry for this long story, but I have a lot going on.
So here’s the story,
My cat is Cali, she is a five year old longhair cat. She lives indoors, and never goes outside even for a second. She is an amazing cat, I’ve always taken good care of her.
She’s on a gastrointestinal dry food from diet from Royal Canin that my vet prescribed years ago; and she has been fine up until a few months ago with eating. There is also another cat in the house, and I feed them both the same food and water and the other cat is just as healthy as can be.
Now for the problems.
About a month and a half ago she developed horners syndrome in her left eye, I waited a few days and took her to the vet, they treated for a possible ear infection that may be causing it. A week passes and the horners goes back to semi-normal, but her pupils were still different sizes.
I take her back to the vet a week later, she gets a shot for anti-nausea, because she started losing weight and I noticed she started sitting hunched over all the time (this is very important), and she gets some more antibiotics because she’s still not back to normal.
Week later, horners comes back completely in her left eye and she now starts throwing up in the morning, but not a normal throw up, she does a “ack” almost before she throws up, and you can tell it’s different than a hairball, this is hurting her. And she starts just throwing up while foam, sometimes not even anything at all, just gagging sometimes. Not really any food.
This is when I notice she’s not eating like she should be. There’s food in the dish and not two cats worth of waste in the litter box.
I take her to the vet and they give me stuff to rub on her ear to help her appitite, but at the same time I set up a visit with a neurologist 3.5 hours away, across the state for a possible MRI consultation.
Week goes by (I get screw waiting because of Christmas holiday), I take her to the neurologist, he suggest MRI, and xrays. I setup xrays with my local vet a week later (again delayed by holidays), xrays come back clean of any obstuctions. So I setup the MRI with the neurologist, thankfully they get me in within a week, she gets the MRI, it comes back clean of cancer, clear of polyps, so the doctor suggests a spinal tap to drain fluids to check if she has possibly an incureable disease, spinal tap comes back clear.
Over 4000 dollars later and the best people in the state tell me “I don’t have an answer for you”
I’m now suggested to take her to an ophthalmologist to have her eye looked at for possible glaucoma.
Where my cat is now,
I cannot get her to eat dry food, she will walk up to it and even lick it, but she can’t eat it; she will eat a few temptation treats, but she threw some up last night, so she is turned off by them now.
I’ve fed her baby food, she doesn’t like that now. I fed her puree cat food, that made her gag. I’ve tried the delectable a for senior lockable, she threw that up. I fed her cooked chicken and rice, she threw it up within 5 minutes. She ate some chicken last night, but then threw it all up two hours later.
She seems to be turned off by all food, but she in constantly asking me for food because she is hungry, but almost everything is coming back up. I was so excited last night when she didn’t throw up right away, but then she woke up from a nap and started gagging it up. And she only eats the tiniest bit when she eats too, so when she throws up, it all comes back out.
I can sometimes get her to eat like 5 kibbles in the morning of her normal food, and some nights seem worse than others, but now she’s just not keeping really anything down anymore and I’m running out of everything.
I’m not giving up on my cat. I’ve taken her to the best people in the state and I’ve ran test people told me I’m crazy for spending money on. I need help from someone who knows what’s happening to my cat.
To summarize:
Cat can’t keep food down
She sits hunched over all the time
Has Horners syndrome in left eye
Is lethargic
Please help me and Cali. I love her.
So here’s the story,
My cat is Cali, she is a five year old longhair cat. She lives indoors, and never goes outside even for a second. She is an amazing cat, I’ve always taken good care of her.
She’s on a gastrointestinal dry food from diet from Royal Canin that my vet prescribed years ago; and she has been fine up until a few months ago with eating. There is also another cat in the house, and I feed them both the same food and water and the other cat is just as healthy as can be.
Now for the problems.
About a month and a half ago she developed horners syndrome in her left eye, I waited a few days and took her to the vet, they treated for a possible ear infection that may be causing it. A week passes and the horners goes back to semi-normal, but her pupils were still different sizes.
I take her back to the vet a week later, she gets a shot for anti-nausea, because she started losing weight and I noticed she started sitting hunched over all the time (this is very important), and she gets some more antibiotics because she’s still not back to normal.
Week later, horners comes back completely in her left eye and she now starts throwing up in the morning, but not a normal throw up, she does a “ack” almost before she throws up, and you can tell it’s different than a hairball, this is hurting her. And she starts just throwing up while foam, sometimes not even anything at all, just gagging sometimes. Not really any food.
This is when I notice she’s not eating like she should be. There’s food in the dish and not two cats worth of waste in the litter box.
I take her to the vet and they give me stuff to rub on her ear to help her appitite, but at the same time I set up a visit with a neurologist 3.5 hours away, across the state for a possible MRI consultation.
Week goes by (I get screw waiting because of Christmas holiday), I take her to the neurologist, he suggest MRI, and xrays. I setup xrays with my local vet a week later (again delayed by holidays), xrays come back clean of any obstuctions. So I setup the MRI with the neurologist, thankfully they get me in within a week, she gets the MRI, it comes back clean of cancer, clear of polyps, so the doctor suggests a spinal tap to drain fluids to check if she has possibly an incureable disease, spinal tap comes back clear.
Over 4000 dollars later and the best people in the state tell me “I don’t have an answer for you”
I’m now suggested to take her to an ophthalmologist to have her eye looked at for possible glaucoma.
Where my cat is now,
I cannot get her to eat dry food, she will walk up to it and even lick it, but she can’t eat it; she will eat a few temptation treats, but she threw some up last night, so she is turned off by them now.
I’ve fed her baby food, she doesn’t like that now. I fed her puree cat food, that made her gag. I’ve tried the delectable a for senior lockable, she threw that up. I fed her cooked chicken and rice, she threw it up within 5 minutes. She ate some chicken last night, but then threw it all up two hours later.
She seems to be turned off by all food, but she in constantly asking me for food because she is hungry, but almost everything is coming back up. I was so excited last night when she didn’t throw up right away, but then she woke up from a nap and started gagging it up. And she only eats the tiniest bit when she eats too, so when she throws up, it all comes back out.
I can sometimes get her to eat like 5 kibbles in the morning of her normal food, and some nights seem worse than others, but now she’s just not keeping really anything down anymore and I’m running out of everything.
I’m not giving up on my cat. I’ve taken her to the best people in the state and I’ve ran test people told me I’m crazy for spending money on. I need help from someone who knows what’s happening to my cat.
To summarize:
Cat can’t keep food down
She sits hunched over all the time
Has Horners syndrome in left eye
Is lethargic
Please help me and Cali. I love her.
he actually listens for that sound now, the big goof. 
