tsp1cjs
Jan 13, 2008, 04:50 PM
I'm going crazy & need to help my sick cats. My Dad just passed away & I don't have a lot of money. I have 2 - 13 year old cats who are sisters. The one has diabetes & was diagnosed about 3 years ago. She is my bad cat. She is big & bossy & cost me a lot of $ throughout her life (more than any other cat). I've taken her to vets & had all kinds of testing done but we can't get her levels under control. My next step is to pay more $ to try another type of insulin & needles which I don't have time or money to do right now. The biggest problems I'm having with her is she won't pee in the litter box even after I clean it. She pees all around it on paper & then drinks it. Why is she doing this & how bad is it for her. I give her fresh clean water in a clean bowl but she insists on drinking out of my glass. She drinks a lot of water & is hungry ALL the time.
My 2nd biggest (MOST IMPORTANT) problem is with her sister who is the good cat & I love her dearly. Since my Dad passed, she's all that comforts me. The week my Dad died I brought her back to the vet to look at an abscessed tooth that was pulled a couple of weeks earlier. It didn't heal & just kept bleeding & oozing. He had me put her on more antibiotics which didn't work & the week of Christmas he wanted to put her to sleep saying he thinks it's cancer. I refused as she still had so much life in her & I don't regret what I did as she still does. I spent a lot of $ on her as well (only for this situation) & had a 2nd opinion which included additional tests of her blood to make sure nothing else was wrong, which it showed she is healthy. The next step would be to do a chest X-ray & biopsy to confirm if it is a Tumor like they think. This would cost me around $700. Or more & then Chemo is additional. As much as I love her it sounds crazy to me. The sore in her mouth isn't getting better. It has disfigured 1 side of her face causing the 1 eye to be closed most of the time & her cheek to be puffed out & the eye to tear. The other side of her face is fine & if you didn't look at the bad side, you wouldn't know anything was wrong other than the blood that keeps coming out. I can't put her to sleep yet because she still eats, runs, sleeps on my chest etc... Any ideas what else I should do that won't break my bank? :confused: :(
My 2nd biggest (MOST IMPORTANT) problem is with her sister who is the good cat & I love her dearly. Since my Dad passed, she's all that comforts me. The week my Dad died I brought her back to the vet to look at an abscessed tooth that was pulled a couple of weeks earlier. It didn't heal & just kept bleeding & oozing. He had me put her on more antibiotics which didn't work & the week of Christmas he wanted to put her to sleep saying he thinks it's cancer. I refused as she still had so much life in her & I don't regret what I did as she still does. I spent a lot of $ on her as well (only for this situation) & had a 2nd opinion which included additional tests of her blood to make sure nothing else was wrong, which it showed she is healthy. The next step would be to do a chest X-ray & biopsy to confirm if it is a Tumor like they think. This would cost me around $700. Or more & then Chemo is additional. As much as I love her it sounds crazy to me. The sore in her mouth isn't getting better. It has disfigured 1 side of her face causing the 1 eye to be closed most of the time & her cheek to be puffed out & the eye to tear. The other side of her face is fine & if you didn't look at the bad side, you wouldn't know anything was wrong other than the blood that keeps coming out. I can't put her to sleep yet because she still eats, runs, sleeps on my chest etc... Any ideas what else I should do that won't break my bank? :confused: :(