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These are the possibilities I'm waiting to hear about. I'm new here. In fact my "introduction" post was less than a week ago and I mentioned how happy I was that our kitty, Izzy, beat acute kidney failure and was home. It looked as if it was a toxin by the way things got bad and better so fast but, to be safe, we were to continue with antibiotics. I should note that she never had a fever or high WBC count. The second day we had her home we started giving her the prescribed antibiotic. By the next day she wasn't eating well. I read that appetite suppression is a common side effect and was relieved. She stopped eating at all so I called the doctor and she moved her scheduled visit to check kidney function to this morning instead of tomorrow. We both thought it was the antibiotic but were sadly proven wrong. Izzy's BUN and creatinine levels are elevated again. We're hoping for Addison's because the treatment is simple and very effective, however, it is rare in cats and her potassium/sodium levels are reverse of what they usually are with Addison's- her sodium was high and her potassium low. A congenital deformity seems vague to me right now because I don't know what and where yet. I'm hoping it would be a situation where we could rehydrate her to do what her kidneys are not doing. Does the location/severity of the deformity dictate all of it, I don't know. Cancer is just a horrible word and a much more horrible infliction. I don't want to think about it but I probably should. What % success rate is a prognosis worthy of putting your animal through the battle? Does chemo put cats through the same horribleness it puts humans through and is chemo even an option for all types of cancer in cats? Such a horribly sad day.....