It’s 4 am and my 17 year old cat just died in my arms , I didn’t even have any warning to take him to the vet in time it was over in 5 minutes .
I am taking his body to the vet tomorrow but I’m just torn apart and I’m just looking for any answers . He’s 17 male neutered. He started having seizures December 2022 , he’s been seen to by the vet since then , he has monthly blood tests on the 20th of every month , he has hyperthyroidism, he’s on meds for that and keppra for the seizures , his last bloods on the 20th January came out fine that his kidney and liver were fine and his thyroid levels were back to normal. He was a little under the weather today off his food and a little snappy with me but other than that nothing . So I let him be and was going to take him for a quick check up in the vet as he’s been like this before . Then suddenly at 4am he made a yowling sound I jumped out of bed and went to him , I thought he was choking on a hairball at first so I was trying to look for a blockage or anything but there didn’t seem to be anything blocking and he hadn’t been coughing or anything during the day . He was making a choking like sound and a lot of drool and laboured breathing he also urinated himself and collapsed I tried to give him cpr but nothing was working , i need to know if anyone has been through this?, this happened in 5 minutes he was gone. They never found the source of the seizures as he would still get them from time to time , the vet said it wasn’t caused by the hyperthyroidism because that came on a year later , they thought it could be a tumour on his brain . I’m sat here in tears and confused and shocked just waiting for the vet to open . Please any help would be appreciated , I’m torturing myself thinking what if it was a hairball stuck in his throat and he was choking and I didn’t do anything right to save him . But he wasn’t coughing at all today he’s had a few hairballs in his life and they are small because I groom him daily . I also checked for obstruction and couldn’t see anything . He doesn’t ever eat random things and this happened in my bedroom which is minimal stuff and nothing he could choke on , he was also sleeping before this happened . I’m just looking for some
Answers , I’m just broken sitting here with everything going through my head .
I am taking his body to the vet tomorrow but I’m just torn apart and I’m just looking for any answers . He’s 17 male neutered. He started having seizures December 2022 , he’s been seen to by the vet since then , he has monthly blood tests on the 20th of every month , he has hyperthyroidism, he’s on meds for that and keppra for the seizures , his last bloods on the 20th January came out fine that his kidney and liver were fine and his thyroid levels were back to normal. He was a little under the weather today off his food and a little snappy with me but other than that nothing . So I let him be and was going to take him for a quick check up in the vet as he’s been like this before . Then suddenly at 4am he made a yowling sound I jumped out of bed and went to him , I thought he was choking on a hairball at first so I was trying to look for a blockage or anything but there didn’t seem to be anything blocking and he hadn’t been coughing or anything during the day . He was making a choking like sound and a lot of drool and laboured breathing he also urinated himself and collapsed I tried to give him cpr but nothing was working , i need to know if anyone has been through this?, this happened in 5 minutes he was gone. They never found the source of the seizures as he would still get them from time to time , the vet said it wasn’t caused by the hyperthyroidism because that came on a year later , they thought it could be a tumour on his brain . I’m sat here in tears and confused and shocked just waiting for the vet to open . Please any help would be appreciated , I’m torturing myself thinking what if it was a hairball stuck in his throat and he was choking and I didn’t do anything right to save him . But he wasn’t coughing at all today he’s had a few hairballs in his life and they are small because I groom him daily . I also checked for obstruction and couldn’t see anything . He doesn’t ever eat random things and this happened in my bedroom which is minimal stuff and nothing he could choke on , he was also sleeping before this happened . I’m just looking for some
Answers , I’m just broken sitting here with everything going through my head .