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Hi, I had a cat who passed away recently, her name was Maggie, I feel like I have no closure, she was the most important thing in my life and I lost her so quickly and I dont even understand why or how.
She was still pretty young, strictly indoor cat.
It all started with this ear infection. I smelt something so bad and her ear was all crusty.. shes never been sick before or had one before, I took her to the vet and gave her antibiotics.
The antibiotics gave her a seizure. (which was also a first for her, shes never had one before)
Then that I noticed her eyes disapearing, like her pupils and she didn't close her eyes anymore when she slept,she was going blind.. i took her to the vet again and he said she was anemic and gave me more antibiotics and ear spray.
that night she went down hill even more, couldn't walk, had a hard time breathing, she hadnt eaten or drank on her own in about 5 days, I had to feed her myself.
I rushed her to the vet again the next morning, a lady at the front took her back to the vet and she died, the nurse came out and said the vet told her to tell me my cat died from a tick disease.
That is all the information I got. Thats all they wold tell me. She NEVER even had blood work done and they never found a tick.
I haven't heard of any disease to her symptoms she could get from a tick..
I will list everything that was wrong with her, I just am hoping so much someone on this site can have an idea of what happened, maybe you have heard of these symptoms before, and know if they relate to each other?
Just some ideas of what you think she could have had would be appreciated, I loved her so much and I feel like we don't have closure. I feel like she was just another animal to the vet and he just threw out a possibilty without knowing for sure.
She died very quickly of getting this symptoms, within about a week.
there was the ear infection-
not eating or drinking
loss of balance
she was anemic
pupils were disappearing she went blind (i tink it was called retinal detachment)
high heart rate
swollen throat
seizures
MAJOR weakness
theres nothing i can find that has all those symptoms.
I've looked up Lyme diease and it doesn't really fit.
Any ideas are so appreciated.
She was still pretty young, strictly indoor cat.
It all started with this ear infection. I smelt something so bad and her ear was all crusty.. shes never been sick before or had one before, I took her to the vet and gave her antibiotics.
The antibiotics gave her a seizure. (which was also a first for her, shes never had one before)
Then that I noticed her eyes disapearing, like her pupils and she didn't close her eyes anymore when she slept,she was going blind.. i took her to the vet again and he said she was anemic and gave me more antibiotics and ear spray.
that night she went down hill even more, couldn't walk, had a hard time breathing, she hadnt eaten or drank on her own in about 5 days, I had to feed her myself.
I rushed her to the vet again the next morning, a lady at the front took her back to the vet and she died, the nurse came out and said the vet told her to tell me my cat died from a tick disease.
That is all the information I got. Thats all they wold tell me. She NEVER even had blood work done and they never found a tick.
I haven't heard of any disease to her symptoms she could get from a tick..
I will list everything that was wrong with her, I just am hoping so much someone on this site can have an idea of what happened, maybe you have heard of these symptoms before, and know if they relate to each other?
Just some ideas of what you think she could have had would be appreciated, I loved her so much and I feel like we don't have closure. I feel like she was just another animal to the vet and he just threw out a possibilty without knowing for sure.
She died very quickly of getting this symptoms, within about a week.
there was the ear infection-
not eating or drinking
loss of balance
she was anemic
pupils were disappearing she went blind (i tink it was called retinal detachment)
high heart rate
swollen throat
seizures
MAJOR weakness
theres nothing i can find that has all those symptoms.
I've looked up Lyme diease and it doesn't really fit.
Any ideas are so appreciated.