Our beloved family cat Chloe stopped eating out of what felt like nowhere. We took her to the vet and learned she has leukemia. She’s just nine years old. She’s an indoor cat and only cat so she likely got it from her mom and it can take years to show up apparently. She did go outside on a harness and has a few times pounced on outdoor cats who wander into the garden before being stopped so it’s possible she could have bit them and been infected with it... we never will know for sure,
The vet said she thinks she could have a month (but another vet who spoke to my dad on the phone said 1-6 months and they’ve been wrong before). Our family is reeling. She’s currently got a tube in and being tube fed at home and the hope is by the weekend she’ll be able to eat on her own. But if she doesn’t...
And even if she does eat on her own again we don’t know how long before she might stop eating again.
The costs have been insane. 5,000 just to learn she has leukemia. Several more thousand for the treatment and 3 night vet stay. Our family can’t afford more. It doesn’t seem at all fair. As my dad said they make you feel guilty by telling you all the things they could do... but only if you have the money. I know vets wish it wasn’t this way but it is and it’s hard not to feel frustrated by how inhumane it all feels. we can only do so much for her, because we don’t have the money to keep trying. this tube feeding perking her up and getting her eating on her own is our only hope
thankfully they didn’t find cancer in her but the lack of eating caused some problems with her liver but it’s doing better now but they did find a mass there and basically don’t know what it is and it could become something bad? it’s upsetting how little they can tell you. Just that she might not be with us much longer.
She is taking the tube feeding well like the good kitty girl she is. She’s always been docile and so gentle. she’s been playing with her favourite toys and is seeming more better in many ways though she is sleeping a lot more given the meds have her tired.
i keep hoping the vets are wrong and she has way longer than one or six months. I honestly have been in denial. I would always say Chloe was gonna live to 18 or 19. Losing her so soon i was like that’s not going to happen to her. No way. I don’t know how to deal with this.
I can’t find much info on adult cats with leuk so i’m curious if anyone has has a cat go through this. did the vet tell you they weren’t going to be here for much longer and they bear the odds or are the vets right? Is there still hope??
The vet said she thinks she could have a month (but another vet who spoke to my dad on the phone said 1-6 months and they’ve been wrong before). Our family is reeling. She’s currently got a tube in and being tube fed at home and the hope is by the weekend she’ll be able to eat on her own. But if she doesn’t...
And even if she does eat on her own again we don’t know how long before she might stop eating again.
The costs have been insane. 5,000 just to learn she has leukemia. Several more thousand for the treatment and 3 night vet stay. Our family can’t afford more. It doesn’t seem at all fair. As my dad said they make you feel guilty by telling you all the things they could do... but only if you have the money. I know vets wish it wasn’t this way but it is and it’s hard not to feel frustrated by how inhumane it all feels. we can only do so much for her, because we don’t have the money to keep trying. this tube feeding perking her up and getting her eating on her own is our only hope
thankfully they didn’t find cancer in her but the lack of eating caused some problems with her liver but it’s doing better now but they did find a mass there and basically don’t know what it is and it could become something bad? it’s upsetting how little they can tell you. Just that she might not be with us much longer.
She is taking the tube feeding well like the good kitty girl she is. She’s always been docile and so gentle. she’s been playing with her favourite toys and is seeming more better in many ways though she is sleeping a lot more given the meds have her tired.
i keep hoping the vets are wrong and she has way longer than one or six months. I honestly have been in denial. I would always say Chloe was gonna live to 18 or 19. Losing her so soon i was like that’s not going to happen to her. No way. I don’t know how to deal with this.
I can’t find much info on adult cats with leuk so i’m curious if anyone has has a cat go through this. did the vet tell you they weren’t going to be here for much longer and they bear the odds or are the vets right? Is there still hope??