Heartbroken
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 4:48 pm
My beautiful little black cat Ditto developed a swollen eyelid. I took her to the vets & they gave me some cream. By the Monday her eye was swollen badly & she was taken back to the vets & kept in all week for tests. She had Ocular carcinoma. The next Tuesday, Data my big tabby had blood tests, he had lost a lot of weight & it was obvious a thyroid problem. Test came back as such & he went on medication whilst Ditto was on tramadol. By the time Friday came, poor Ditto was in such pain, we had her euthanased.
That afternoon Data started scratching his face - I thought he had something stuck in his teeth, but couldn't see anything. I took him back to the vets where vet told me he was allergic to the vitalda Thyroid medication, so, he would need the op ASAP. He had already had 1 thyroid removed Jan 2015. He had the op on Thursday & my vet phoned in the afternoon saying she wanted to send tissue off for biopsy. I knew immediately it was carcinoma. I am lucky to have a referral vet for Thyroid problems. It came back as positive.
We scraped money together to get him radioactive iodine treatment at the Royal Veterinary college & he went in for Scintigraphy 3rd Oct & had the iodine treatment high dose on 6h October. Everything went perfectly, for 10 days, then he stopped eating. Blood tests showed his thyroid tumour was dead, so, the treatment worked, he got a dental abscess. This was the straw that broke the camels back. They put him in intensive care, with a feeding tube, heart monitor & antibiotics & painkillers. He went within 4 days from being a skinny cat on the up, to skin & bones not being able to move. Thursday morning I was allowed to go & see him, he couldn't even sit up sadly we said goodbye as I talked to him - I couldn't hold him as it was too dangerous. Tooth decay bought on Acute renal failure. Any other time this would have been a simple fix, but, not with this treatment.
I know we had no choice as the tumour would have killed him if we did nothing, but, if only we had looked after his teeth properly, he would have been coming home next Friday. Instead I have lost 2 cats in 7 weeks and it is just unbearable.
That afternoon Data started scratching his face - I thought he had something stuck in his teeth, but couldn't see anything. I took him back to the vets where vet told me he was allergic to the vitalda Thyroid medication, so, he would need the op ASAP. He had already had 1 thyroid removed Jan 2015. He had the op on Thursday & my vet phoned in the afternoon saying she wanted to send tissue off for biopsy. I knew immediately it was carcinoma. I am lucky to have a referral vet for Thyroid problems. It came back as positive.
We scraped money together to get him radioactive iodine treatment at the Royal Veterinary college & he went in for Scintigraphy 3rd Oct & had the iodine treatment high dose on 6h October. Everything went perfectly, for 10 days, then he stopped eating. Blood tests showed his thyroid tumour was dead, so, the treatment worked, he got a dental abscess. This was the straw that broke the camels back. They put him in intensive care, with a feeding tube, heart monitor & antibiotics & painkillers. He went within 4 days from being a skinny cat on the up, to skin & bones not being able to move. Thursday morning I was allowed to go & see him, he couldn't even sit up sadly we said goodbye as I talked to him - I couldn't hold him as it was too dangerous. Tooth decay bought on Acute renal failure. Any other time this would have been a simple fix, but, not with this treatment.
I know we had no choice as the tumour would have killed him if we did nothing, but, if only we had looked after his teeth properly, he would have been coming home next Friday. Instead I have lost 2 cats in 7 weeks and it is just unbearable.