Update: Mystic is dying :(

Prayers and warm healing energies and love are coming from us. May you be well again, Mystic. You are so much loved.

:love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love:,
Pat and cats

Keeping good thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.

Kim, I'm so sorry to hear this.:( Lots of prayers and positive thoughts are being sent his way. Please take care. (((HUGS)))

I just got off the phone with the vet. She is not optimistic. She said he is not responding to treatment and his blood work is coming back worse instead of better. The infection is incredibly rampant - his urine is so bloody that its clotting as soon as it hit the litterbox.

She said she never saw an infection hit a young cat so hard and fast as it has with him. She said he looks to be in heart and kindey failure in addition to the blood clots (yes multiple clots). She also thinks he has a congenital disorder that he was born with and we have been masking it the past few months with food and meds. She said there was no way we could have known. We did so many tests - blood, urine, Xrays, etc. She also stated several times that I did nothing wrong. She said I did more for him than most pet parents.

I still have no idea how much this is going to cost.... oy, we owe sooo many people. Its just money, right? And isn't the rest of the country just as broke as we are? Even if I pay the vet $50 every two weeks for infinity, I'll know I did everything for him.

So, for the moment, she is just giving him fluids and meds. She said if she thought for a moment that he wouldn't make it, she would have recommended he be put down yesterday. She is honestly shocked at how ill he is. She said that he is the first cat in her career who went downhill so fast. She is just as shocked as I am.

I've cried and cried all day. My sweet little blackie. He is only two years old! Two!

Kim! How horribly horribly sad! You and your vet KNOW you did everything possible! But that makes it no better.

What kind of infection was it that it went so fast?

I hope sweet Mystic is comfortable...he knows he is very loved. If you see him, please give him kissies on his sweet forehead from me.

Hugs, hugs and hugs. Prayers for you through this nightmare.:love::love::love:

Prayers are going up. I am just so sorry.

Kim, I'm so sorry.:( Lots more prayers and positive thoughts are being sent his way. Please take care. (((HUGS)))

I'm so, so sorry...:(

I'm so sorry about your precious baby.

I am so sorry to read about Mystic, he is too young for this to be happening.

I used to work in a hospital so I am very familar with the medications needed in humans to prevent blood clots. I don't know what medications the vet is giving Mystic (and she might already be doing this), but there is something that MIGHT help him. It is call "low molecule weight heparin". This is something that will ONLY be available through your local hospital but she can order it and they should be able to provide it.
Here are a couple of references if she needs some supporting documentation:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2666318/

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...90023311002954

If she would like a copy the articles please let me know and I am happy to email them to her.

Prayers for you both. Sweet Mystic. Praying that he rallys but if it's not to be, :( I hope his passing is peaceful. :love::love::love:

Oh no. :( I am in tears. :( I am so very sorry and I will still keep you and Mystic in my thoughts that he will, by a miracle, bounce back from this. He is much much too young. :(

I'm so very sorry to hear this. All blackies have a special place in my heart. Cyber hugs to you and Mystic. LES. It's always so hard but you know you've gone above and beyond to take care of your baby boy. :(

I am so very sorry to read this. He's still so young.

Prayers for Mystic and you and all who love him so much.

Love to you all.

Oh, Kim, you will be in our prayers. IUt is so hard, especially with something we cannot see - that underlying condition she suspects could be something that would have killed him much younger in some other home, but with you and your family, he got more loving in these past two years than many cats get in ten. Don't beat yourself up, you have done everything you can, and he knows you love him.