Oh goodness, prayers for you and for Magic!

Yes, I had a bad month of June with my Ruffles, age 16. We were at the vet 8 times in that month, 3 times in one week. She had the CBC senior (full blood work) at least twice that month. AND xrays. I kept trying this and trying that. The hard part was all her tests came back normal! To this day, we don't know what is wrong with her.

I finally had to make a decision and so I had a talk with the vet. I said look, you want to do an ultrasound. What will it tell us? It will show if she has an abcess or cancer or not. OK, just assume she DOES. Then what? Well, the cancer, we look at surgery and chemo. And abcess, we consider either surgery or antibiotics. Fine. Ruffles is 16. I am NOT going to put her thorugh chemo, surgeries, or even another round of anesthesia for the ultrasound. Give her the antibiotics. That is what we did. She is doing OK. She has been on antibiotics since end of June and will continue on them indefinitely. We have tried to stop them 3 times. By day 4 she is quite ill again and the 3rd time, I had to force feed her to pull her through. SO I talked with the vet again and made it clear I am NOT stopping these meds again; neither Ruffles nor I can go through it!

So for you, I would say have a talk with the vet. What will all these tests tell us? And based on those results, what do we do? Then ask yourself, would you do it? I don't know Magic's age, or anything else which will impact your decision, that is why it is YOUR decision, what makes sense for this kitty. That would be my recommendation as to how to proceed.

It is VERY difficult to set aside your emotions to deal rationally and logically with the medical stuff. But that was the only way I could get through it. Maybe this will help you.

In any case, prayers and best wishes coming your way from RI.