Dox Your Cats

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I don't know many people with cats, especially any with elderly cats, so I wanted to come to my fellow cat-kiwis with this one.

My cat is a little over 15, she's developed what looks like a tumor on one of her nipples. There's occasional discharge of blood and pus. I obviously brought her to the emergency vet after noticing it and her not eating for 2 days. They suggested a FNA test to check for cancer, cancer or not I booked surgery to get it removed. It's either a normal tumor or mammary gland cancer, if cancer then she's got roughly a year to live. I don't know what expenses are like for this, when I was younger my parents often opted to put pets down when they were incredibly sick, my cat isn't by any means in pain (still sleeps all day and lays around, eating normally) and I'm willing to tap into savings or work overtime to cover her surgery. The stress of "what if" is eating away at me, but I'm also making attempts to come to terms with the worst. I just want to know from others here, how expensive was surgery for your cats and how did things progress afterwards?

Anyways, thanks for reading fellow cat-kiwi bros, posting this feels cathartic.
I'm in no mood to dox my cat, but if surgery goes well, perhaps I will. Thanks again.
 
C4-621 said:
I don't know many people with cats, especially any with elderly cats, so I wanted to come to my fellow cat-kiwis with this one.

My cat is a little over 15, she's developed what looks like a tumor on one of her nipples. There's occasional discharge of blood and pus. I obviously brought her to the emergency vet after noticing it and her not eating for 2 days. They suggested a FNA test to check for cancer, cancer or not I booked surgery to get it removed. It's either a normal tumor or mammary gland cancer, if cancer then she's got roughly a year to live. I don't know what expenses are like for this, when I was younger my parents often opted to put pets down when they were incredibly sick, my cat isn't by any means in pain (still sleeps all day and lays around, eating normally) and I'm willing to tap into savings or work overtime to cover her surgery. The stress of "what if" is eating away at me, but I'm also making attempts to come to terms with the worst. I just want to know from others here, how expensive was surgery for your cats and how did things progress afterwards?

Anyways, thanks for reading fellow cat-kiwi bros, posting this feels cathartic.
I'm in no mood to dox my cat, but if surgery goes well, perhaps I will. Thanks again.
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The surgery itself shouldn't be too bad. How much it is really depends on where you are and how extensive the surgery ends up being. What you're describing could be cancer, or it could be some kind of weird mastitis. If it's some kind of weird mastitis, then surgery and antibiotics will be curative and you can just go on with life as is. If it is localized cancer then surgery would be curative. You would just need to take her in every so often for monitoring to make sure that it doesn't come back or that it doesn't show up anywhere else because it was hiding out waiting to show up again. If it has spread (which means its metastatic) how far its spread determines how to approach it. If it's local spread, they can probably remove it all and then they might suggest chemotherapy, which in local spread, can be curative. If it's beyond local spread, they might offer palliative treatment and then tell you what to look for if she develops any pain, and then you would have to do the right thing for her.

I will be praying for her. I am sure we all will. Let us know what happens, if you can. We are here if you need anything.
 
My old man LOVES when I wash my sheets, I can't even fully make my bed right now because I don't want to move him.
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That lil' smile!
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NaggotFigger said:
She’s an angel.
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I love the little dark tip on the tail, it looks like the only dark spot on the entire cat. It's the inverse of a cat my parents have, he's a dark blue tabby (you can think of a blue tabby as a dilute version of a silver tabby where you have dark blue where the black should be and light gray where the silver should be) that has just a white tip on the end of his tail, with no other white on him.

This is a good example of a blue tabby:

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This is my Parents’ cat Ember, she's staying with me for a few days. Millie doesn’t seem to like her but they mostly keep their distance from each other. She's very shy, even at my parents house she tends to hide from people and run away when they try to pet her, but I did get her to let me pet her last night when I found her rolling around with one of Millie's catnip mice. She does have the habit of meowing loudly in the middle of the night but maybe she just misses my parents, she’s certainly not as much as a hyper little troublemaker as Millie can be, but she’s also not as affectionate as Millie either.

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As for Millie, she was recently banned from my BIL’s bedroom, which is across the hall from the entrance to my apartment. Apparently she went in there and broke something a few weeks ago and I could here him yelling and swearing about it from my living room. Note that my BIL is usually a very calm and level-headed kind of guy
 
Ilikeoreos said:
She does have the habit of meowing loudly in the middle of the night but maybe she just misses my parents
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This is indeed a classic "Where are you?!?" behavior for a cat. If you call her softly, they will usually come to you, or at least stop caterwauling since they now know for sure where you are.
 
I have a video of my cat bouncing off walls randomly, but need to figure out how to remove the identifying infos.

That said: it's adorable as hell every time she does this. Treasure your cats, mine is getting on in years and I'm not looking forward to when her time finally comes.
 
Glaust said:
I have a video of my cat bouncing off walls randomly, but need to figure out how to remove the identifying infos.

That said: it's adorable as hell every time she does this. Treasure your cats, mine is getting on in years and I'm not looking forward to when her time finally comes.
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Both of my cats are very "touch" oriented as they like to be in constant physical contact with me when I am on the sofa or in bed. They are very dog-like with how much they like to cuddle.

When I had to euthanize my last dog because of terminal cancer years ago, my cat was a big help in terms of helping me through it.
 
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