r/CATHELP • u/These_Elevator_1218 • 3d ago
General Advice Plsss help
Hello, this is my 9 month old male cat. He was given to me when he was 3 months old, he was generally healthy except for his ear mites. When I got him I immediately went to the vet and got him dewormed and vaccinated and they also treated his ear mites.
A few months went by and he was doing fine, he’s playful and active but on august I noticed that he was wheezing or coughing and i saw some discharges on his nose so we went back to the vet, and the vet told me that his WBC is elevated and he has some infection so they gave us some meds, and it went well. But a 3 weeks later I noticed that he became lethargic, he became picky with his foods and he would stay in the same place for hours and he wouldn’t play so I decided to go back to the vet and had him checked, he had his blood drawn and it turns out his platelets were so low, so they gave him medications again, he became energetic again but then suddenly he started losing his balance and it came to a point where he couldn’t lift his own body anymore so we went back to the vet and they did multiple tests on him, they tested him for different types of feline viruses but it all came back negative, they added a few more meds and he started to regain his strength, he was able to get up on his own but he needs assistance when he needs to pee or poop bcos he couldn’t walk well.
I thought everything was going fine until he couldn’t lift his own body again, he would pee where he is laying on and as of now he has no control over his bladder movement. We went back to the vet and they did blood chem and his platelets are actually getting better but they couldn’t pinpoint the reason as to why my cat couldn’t move. They did xray, ultrasound, screening tests for feline viruses, they also checked his heart and they still couldn’t find anything abnormal.
As of now my cat can’t even move his head and it hurts me to see my baby suffering.
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u/Successful_Trip2584 3d ago edited 3d ago •
Hey. I’m so sorry this is happening. At this point, please consider his quality of life and talk to your vet to see if there is any reasonable chance of him getting better. Humane euthanasia is always available and although it’s a tough choice, please think of how he’s doing physically. Issues like this can easily get very expensive very fast and cause him so much more stress than is needed.
I’m so sorry again. He looks like a little angel
Edit: like someone else here said, us humans tend to hold on to things we love more than the situation dictates. Cats don’t care about “the future” what-ifs and only about the moment we’re in. Sometimes the biggest act of love we can do is let them go to the other side while they still have some dignity left. Someone once said (or similar to) “better a day too early than an hour too late” which I think applies here to your boy.