Hello everyone, I'm new here but am so worried about one of my cats, and wondered if anyone here has experienced anything similar.
Mizzie, who is 5, went off her food around the middle of last week and became very subdued, hiding under the bed etc. We took her to the vet on Friday and she had a very high temperature, so the vet treated her for an infection (antibiotics and anti-inflammatory jabs and tablets). She wasn't vomiting, no diarrheoa or anything. On Saturday morning we found something we can only assume she'd vomited - it looked like a partially solidified mouse, and a small amount of blood. We have seen her eat whole mice, so assumed it may have been stuck inside her somewhere and had set up the infection.
Saturday evening, Sunday morning she seemed to go rapidly downhill, very dopey, could hardly walk properly and had even stopped drinking water, let alone eating. Our vet has an emergency surgery on Sunday mornings so we took her, and though her temperature had returned to normal, the vet thought her tummy was painful so gave her a morphine jab hoping she would pick up if she wasn't in pain.
She didn't. In fact she got worse. So bad, I actually wondered if she'd still be alive when we got up this morning. She was, but now she was hyper-sensitive to the slightest sound, recoiling in fear and jumping around as if delirious. I don't think she even knew who we were as we tried to calm and comfort her. Rushed her straight to the vet who said this could be a reaction to poison. She's been admitted and put on sedatives and a drip, and had bloods taken which we are waiting for the results from.
I know realistically I have to wait, but wondered if anyone here has experienced anything similar and could offer me any grains of hope. It was absolutely awful seeing her like that, and I'm so worried I'm going to lose her.
Sorry this was such a long post