Damn tadpoling foster cats - need to start again.
I have just come back from the vet with my 16 year old Pepsi. Her breathing has always been noisy and many years ago the vet told me it was her nose/throat. Over the years she has been getting worse but the last couple of days its been quite bad and she was trying to be sick last night. She also is not eating as much.
Vet has xrayed her and her lungs are clear but enlarged. They also look dark in the xray which he tells me is a sign of them over working, and she has some air in her digestive tract. So shes on steroids and back now. Back for a check on Thursday if she's ok else sooner.
There are a couple of asthmatic cats on here - is there anything I need to do to make her more comfortable?
As relieved as I am as I was expecting her lungs to be congested or a tumour in there, the xrays have sadly highlighted that her smaller intestines are bunched up together which the vet told me was often a sign of a tumour , though there was no visiblilty of one as yet. So this may be what is behind the reduction of appetite.
Vet says that steroids can also help here a little bit or we could consider an exploratory operation. At 16 and a half, don't think I would put her through this and the vet said the same (though of course a good vet will always tell you that you are making the right decision
). Any thoughts on this?
