About a month ago I noticed that my sisters ex-cat, now my foster, wasn't eating and was looking jaundiced so we took her into the vet. I wasn't at my house for about 3 weeks but my bf didn't take the time to really look at her and it turns out she'd lost about 3 pounds. They did a blood work up on her since they were concerned it was hepatic lipidosis, which is where the liver tries to use fat to perform it's functions, but the fat just builds up in the liver because it can't really use it.
Her results came back extremely high for all her liver levels (don't remember what they were), and the vet was surprised she was still alive. She was put on fluids to help cleanse her body and science diet RX food to help her liver recover and also some antibiotics in case it was an infection, and we took her home because we couldn't afford to let her stay at the vet overnight. We did everything as we should have, except that if she ate more than half a can of the food she'd start vomiting.
We took her back a couple weeks later and she had lost another pound but her blood levels were lowered and again, the vet was shocked but this time at how good they were! She's on fluids again and antibiotics and RX food but I weighed her yesterday and she'd lost yet another pound.
I don't know what to do with her anymore, we just can't afford the sonograms and all the stuff they want to do and I feel awful about it. I'm really rooting for her, but some days it seems like she's giving up on herself and I don't want that to happen. We've already spent almost a thousand dollars on her treatment to give her a shot at surviving this but it seems hopeless. I'm going to talk to the vet today to see if we can put her on a higher calorie diet to help gain the weight back so hopefully she'll have some good advice about what we can do to help her.
Her results came back extremely high for all her liver levels (don't remember what they were), and the vet was surprised she was still alive. She was put on fluids to help cleanse her body and science diet RX food to help her liver recover and also some antibiotics in case it was an infection, and we took her home because we couldn't afford to let her stay at the vet overnight. We did everything as we should have, except that if she ate more than half a can of the food she'd start vomiting.
We took her back a couple weeks later and she had lost another pound but her blood levels were lowered and again, the vet was shocked but this time at how good they were! She's on fluids again and antibiotics and RX food but I weighed her yesterday and she'd lost yet another pound.
I don't know what to do with her anymore, we just can't afford the sonograms and all the stuff they want to do and I feel awful about it. I'm really rooting for her, but some days it seems like she's giving up on herself and I don't want that to happen. We've already spent almost a thousand dollars on her treatment to give her a shot at surviving this but it seems hopeless. I'm going to talk to the vet today to see if we can put her on a higher calorie diet to help gain the weight back so hopefully she'll have some good advice about what we can do to help her.