Long story short, we thought she was better. She was perfect for a week and a half and the vet gave her a clean bill of health based on the labwork and how well she responded to her antibiotic injection. Tuesday night, she started using the litter box a little more than normal. Her mood was fine, but she seemed to be peeing a bit too much.
Wednesday, I called the vet and wound up taking her in. He said the next step is $350 for X-Rays and Sonogram. Because they isn’t any problem chemically according to the bloodwork (no renal failure, no diabetes, etc.), the next step is finding out if there is something wrong physically; whether it’s inflammation, stones, or something else. In the meantime, since she responded so well to the antibiotic injection, he said to do another one to buy us time to save up for the next tests. Wednesdays bills took up the very last available credit I had – $110 between the exam and shot.
I was home today (Thursday) and she’s worse. In the litterbox just constantly. Non-stop, hour after hour she keeps going to the litter box and straining to pee. She’s also developed diarrhea which I imagine is from the stress and the straining. (I’ve had to clean her rear three times today.) So the antibiotic hasn’t helped. She’s much worse than yesterday now.
I tried to get an increase in the Care Credit to pay for her tests right away. I was declined. I’m maxed out on everything. I still haven’t paid my cable bill, power bill or car payment this month and don’t have the money to do it. And I’ve got a very sick cat and no money to get the next tests needed to figure out what’s wrong with her. We’re about $700 into this so far between the beginning of November and now trying to figure out what’s wrong with her and why she keeps getting so sick.
It’s killing me. She’s very “down” today – so unlike her normal, perky, frisky self. She’s meowing and obviously uncomfortable and there’s nothing I can do. It’s breaking my heart to see her like this and be so powerless to do anything about it. All because of fucking money!
The vet is only open a half day tomorrow and then closed until Monday. I’m calling first thing in the morning to see if there is ANYTHING we can do to help alleviate her discomfort. I’m just so worried about her and I thought everything was good, so now to be faced with this again…I’m just so miserable. I’m overwhelmed and depressed and just don’t know what to do anymore. I don’t know how I’m going to get my bills paid, let alone pay off the credit cards, let alone come up with MORE money to try to make her well.
I feel utterly hopeless. Merry fucking Christmas.