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In October, annual bloodwork came back on my six year old cat Nite that indicated the early stages of kidney disease. However, the urinalysis results the next day were normal, and the vet told me I had two options- I could start him on a kidney diet or repeat bloodwork in four weeks. I asked what she would do if it were her kitty and she said just repeat bloodwork in four weeks. So, four weeks later, we repeated the bloodwork and it was completely normal. I thought the original results were a fluke. I did not change Nite's diet. Then, in early January, we repeated the bloodwork again and he was in Stage 2b kidney disease. While he was okay the day we took him in, he completely deteriorated over the next two days. He died at the emergency vet the second night. The vet said the kidney disease should not have progressed so fast and there had to be something going on causing the problem which she did not diagnose, like cancer, lymphoma, cysts, etc. in addition to his FIV+. I keep returning to the thought that if I had switched his diet in October, he wouldn't have experienced all that suffering and he would still be here.