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Hello, My little 1.5 year old cat Chuchita has a very severe liver disease. I took her to the vet and they did an x-ray and blood work. And had me to take her to the vet hospital for an ultrasound. Then she had to get a plasma transfusion because her clotting times were so abnormal in order to get an aspirates of her liver and spleen done. The liver aspirates (Sp?) showed fatty liver and the spleen showed some inflammation. But clinically she has not presented like a regular fatty liver patient. Although we think its possible she went a few days without eating, after she got her rabies vaccine she came home from the vet and started acting weird within the next few days and seemed to not want to eat the wet food we were giving her, but I had never heard of fatty liver disease and thought the vaccine just needed to go through her system and she'd be fine. We switched her back to the dry food she likes and she started eating again. We don't know exactly how much cause we have a second cat too but she was definitely eating. In fact the night before I finally brought her into the vet she ate almost a whole can of food. Even still her liver enzymes were highly elevated she had hepatic encephalopathy,meaning neurological changes. So anyway, two overnights at the vet hospital and $3K, where she got tons of meds and IV fluids, she started eating again. The first few days she was home, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday morning she ate, she even cried for food and she seemed a little more alert. Come Tuesday night I had to coax her but she still ate some Tuna. Wednesday she also ate a good amount of tuna, I know this could possible be bad for cats, but better than nothing. Anyway, come Thursday all she would eat was tuna juice. I took her back to the vet Friday morning and she tried the feeding tube that went down her nose but Chuchita wouldn't tolerate it. Because her clotting times were again abnormal they couldn't do the incision required for the E tube. The vet suggested that I could take her to the hospital for a Peg tube, but 3-4K more later she might still be sick so couldn't justify that cost. The vet thinks only a miracle could save her now but said we could try syringe feeding (after I read about it online and asked her about it). So that's what were doing now with the medicines. But her liver is failing, even with all the treatment she received at the hospital and some food in her stomach. When her blood work was done this past Friday, she also was anemic with red and white blood cell counts being abnormal. She has absolutely no energy walks really slowly and does not make it to the litter box. Basically they think something else is going on other than the fatty liver disease but can't tell anything else without a biopsy. So, I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen a fatty liver cat who wasn't completely anorexic who was acting this abnormal she barely moves and has no control over her bowl/bladder. The vet said we could try a steroid as a last ditch effort but it could make it worse. I just don't know if she can be saved at this point and don't know if its fair to prolong her suffering. She does tolerate the force feeding and hasn't vomited but she hates it and all the meds. She's also still very jaundice. Thanks for any help!!