He has noisy breathing, trouble swallowing things, is really hungry and tries to eat, but ends up having difficulty/choking and runs away and doesn’t eat again until later.
He’s lost a lot of weight.
He has a vet appointment later today, originally it was to get him some steroids because apparently last time, the vet told my mother that it would help take down the inflammation.
Now however, parents have seen that he’s starving himself because of his difficulty eating.
We don’t have money problems - we can afford surgery - but parents are saying that they refuse to pay for the scan to make sure that is IS a polyp, and of course the vet won’t perform surgery without checking that it is in fact a polyp on a CT scan first.
So basically they are sentencing our poor cat to death.
They claim they’ll “do what’s best for our cat” so then surely they’d pay for the scan and the surgery?
I KNOW it’s very expensive, but he’s worth every penny.
If I myself had the money, I’d pay it. But I don’t.
I’m devastated that they could do this to him.
Will steroids work at all, do you think?
He’s only been on pain medication (Metacam I think it’s called?) since his last vet visit, and we’ve been feeding him sliced meats which have been ‘whizzed up’ in the blender and dampened a little with water to make eating easier for him.
But they have been hesitant to take him back to the vet due to the cost. As I say, money isn’t actually a problem for us so I don’t understand why they’d rather have our dear little cat put to sleep, rather than do everything they can to make him better?
Any advice, please?
