Irreversible bladder damage - what to do?
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 7:43 pm
I will try not to ramble too much, this is my first post as I feel at a loss.
I have a until now, very fit and healthy male cat who turned 10 last week. He is an outdoor cat but spends his time quite equally indoors and outside, he's never had any problems until recently.
The past couple of weeks have been filled with vet appointments and emergency overnight stays, it started with him not being able to urinate and after 2 weeks the vets (3 different ones) don't seem to be able to find a way out of this. He had a catheter/drip and initially we all thought he was improving, his kidney levels returned to normal and he seemed ok, but he still couldn't pee. He was being expressed so easily but he couldn't go himself, he was just in pain and not moving.
We are now at the stage where the vets say there doesn't seem to be another option, and we can't afford much more either we have already exceeded our insurance limit and we now owe £1000 on top of that... they think his muscles around his bladder are so damaged that he doesn't even know when he needs to go, and can't make himself either.
I am just in turmoil, I can't face the possibility of losing him. How can it be fair that a cat so healthy and happy suddenly loses the ability to be independent and live in 2 weeks?
We can't go on getting into more debt it's already more than we can afford, he is in pain a lot and the vets don't seem to have another option.
Has anyone been through this before? What would you do in this situation?
Any advice would be so appreciated, I can't seem to find anything online about cats that have suffered so badly and their muscles not returned after the blockage damage.
I have a until now, very fit and healthy male cat who turned 10 last week. He is an outdoor cat but spends his time quite equally indoors and outside, he's never had any problems until recently.
The past couple of weeks have been filled with vet appointments and emergency overnight stays, it started with him not being able to urinate and after 2 weeks the vets (3 different ones) don't seem to be able to find a way out of this. He had a catheter/drip and initially we all thought he was improving, his kidney levels returned to normal and he seemed ok, but he still couldn't pee. He was being expressed so easily but he couldn't go himself, he was just in pain and not moving.
We are now at the stage where the vets say there doesn't seem to be another option, and we can't afford much more either we have already exceeded our insurance limit and we now owe £1000 on top of that... they think his muscles around his bladder are so damaged that he doesn't even know when he needs to go, and can't make himself either.
I am just in turmoil, I can't face the possibility of losing him. How can it be fair that a cat so healthy and happy suddenly loses the ability to be independent and live in 2 weeks?
We can't go on getting into more debt it's already more than we can afford, he is in pain a lot and the vets don't seem to have another option.
Has anyone been through this before? What would you do in this situation?
Any advice would be so appreciated, I can't seem to find anything online about cats that have suffered so badly and their muscles not returned after the blockage damage.