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Hello all, and thank you in advance.
My cat, Booger, is a healthy 5 year old domestic shorthair. Until last Saturday.
Out of the blue, she began struggling to breathe from her nose, and had to resort to mouth breathing. There was clearly something blocking her nasal airways as well as making her gag every time she swallowed. The onset was extremely rapid. After Sunday, she stopped eating or drinking.
*I may add, last month she had a series of sneezing with mucus that became bloody. It was instantly cleared with Clavamox and a steroid shot at her primary vet and diagnosed as a URI. Unsure if related*
Her x-ray, blood, and overall health checked out to be fine.
Yesterday, we brought her in for a CT scan as well as a scope / biopsy. Results of the CT scan are below with the description. Biopsy results will take a few more days, but the vet says it can be either a polyp, which can't be removed due to the area it's in, or cancer, which we do not have enough time to buy if we decide to go through with chemo/radiation, and that there is no short-term fix that she can think of to provide comfort until any therapies can take effect. She administered steroids and we are waiting to hear back to see if any swelling went down from that, as well as placed breathing tubes in her nostrils which apparently helped her breathe better, but said she can only leave those in for another day or two. Essentially, what I got from her was that she is out of options and has maybe a few days left, and that we should think about euthanasia.
This all sounds extremely pessimistic to me, especially given the rapid onset of her symptoms. I have forwarded the results to a new hospital's interventional radiology team with hopes of a stent to be able to be inserted to open up her airways.
Has anybody ever seen or went through anything similar? I had my hopes set for an easily removable polyp, but was told that whatever it is, whether a tumor or a polyp, it's in an area that the doctor was not able to reach. Is this 100% true? How can I save my baby?
Any responses are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
My cat, Booger, is a healthy 5 year old domestic shorthair. Until last Saturday.
Out of the blue, she began struggling to breathe from her nose, and had to resort to mouth breathing. There was clearly something blocking her nasal airways as well as making her gag every time she swallowed. The onset was extremely rapid. After Sunday, she stopped eating or drinking.
*I may add, last month she had a series of sneezing with mucus that became bloody. It was instantly cleared with Clavamox and a steroid shot at her primary vet and diagnosed as a URI. Unsure if related*
Her x-ray, blood, and overall health checked out to be fine.
Yesterday, we brought her in for a CT scan as well as a scope / biopsy. Results of the CT scan are below with the description. Biopsy results will take a few more days, but the vet says it can be either a polyp, which can't be removed due to the area it's in, or cancer, which we do not have enough time to buy if we decide to go through with chemo/radiation, and that there is no short-term fix that she can think of to provide comfort until any therapies can take effect. She administered steroids and we are waiting to hear back to see if any swelling went down from that, as well as placed breathing tubes in her nostrils which apparently helped her breathe better, but said she can only leave those in for another day or two. Essentially, what I got from her was that she is out of options and has maybe a few days left, and that we should think about euthanasia.
This all sounds extremely pessimistic to me, especially given the rapid onset of her symptoms. I have forwarded the results to a new hospital's interventional radiology team with hopes of a stent to be able to be inserted to open up her airways.
Has anybody ever seen or went through anything similar? I had my hopes set for an easily removable polyp, but was told that whatever it is, whether a tumor or a polyp, it's in an area that the doctor was not able to reach. Is this 100% true? How can I save my baby?
Any responses are greatly appreciated. Thank you.