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Hello everyone, I’m new here. My 16 year old kitty passed away about a month ago and I am really struggling with it. I feel heartbroken, very depressed and don’t know when I will feel okay again. To make it even worse, I am obsessively trying to figure out why she died and I feel like I can’t be at peace unless I know.
Mid-february she started limping on a back leg, but it quickly improved and everything else seemed normal, she still ate and went to the bathroom etc. We were all convinced it was some kind of sprain. There was no swelling or anything else noticeable on her leg. Then 2 weeks later, one morning she didn’t come to the kitchen for breakfast like she usually does. I found her sitting on the couch in the basement and picked her up and brought her upstairs. That’s when I noticed she was unable to walk on her front left paw.
She had folded her paw inwards and was walking on her wrist.... by the time we brought her to the vet she couldn’t walk on any of her legs.
The vet did a physical examination and said she was full of arthritis which was causing her a lot of pain. They gave her a shot of solensia and said she should improve in a few days.
That evening she barely ate, peed herself, and stayed in one spot. I had never seen her this lethargic. I brought her to the vet again the next day as her condition was worsening.
Same clinic but different vet. She also said it was arthritis and gave her some pain meds for us to give her with a syringe and said the top priority is to get her to eat, and that if she didn’t eat we have to bring her again.
The next day she passed away at home.
Does anyone know what this could have been? Was it old age and her arthritis? (She was 16 and 4 months). I thought of saddle thrombus, but the second time we saw the vet I specifically asked to check her for that and they said it wasn’t because she had a good pulse in her back legs. I also asked them to check her heart and they said it was good. I know she was paralyzed though because her foot pads had turned purple the morning before the passed away. But as I mentioned the limp started 2 weeks ago then seemed to be going away and returned again, affecting her front paw.
Also, at the second vet appointment she had tried to jump out of her cage and hit her front paw, and her wrist bone stuck out at a weird angle (like a bump above her paw). It was like her bones became jello.
Old age? Saddle thrombus? Stroke? Something else? Please help
Mid-february she started limping on a back leg, but it quickly improved and everything else seemed normal, she still ate and went to the bathroom etc. We were all convinced it was some kind of sprain. There was no swelling or anything else noticeable on her leg. Then 2 weeks later, one morning she didn’t come to the kitchen for breakfast like she usually does. I found her sitting on the couch in the basement and picked her up and brought her upstairs. That’s when I noticed she was unable to walk on her front left paw.
She had folded her paw inwards and was walking on her wrist.... by the time we brought her to the vet she couldn’t walk on any of her legs.
The vet did a physical examination and said she was full of arthritis which was causing her a lot of pain. They gave her a shot of solensia and said she should improve in a few days.
That evening she barely ate, peed herself, and stayed in one spot. I had never seen her this lethargic. I brought her to the vet again the next day as her condition was worsening.
Same clinic but different vet. She also said it was arthritis and gave her some pain meds for us to give her with a syringe and said the top priority is to get her to eat, and that if she didn’t eat we have to bring her again.
The next day she passed away at home.
Does anyone know what this could have been? Was it old age and her arthritis? (She was 16 and 4 months). I thought of saddle thrombus, but the second time we saw the vet I specifically asked to check her for that and they said it wasn’t because she had a good pulse in her back legs. I also asked them to check her heart and they said it was good. I know she was paralyzed though because her foot pads had turned purple the morning before the passed away. But as I mentioned the limp started 2 weeks ago then seemed to be going away and returned again, affecting her front paw.
Also, at the second vet appointment she had tried to jump out of her cage and hit her front paw, and her wrist bone stuck out at a weird angle (like a bump above her paw). It was like her bones became jello.
Old age? Saddle thrombus? Stroke? Something else? Please help
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