Cosmo is Gone - Update post #19

[elizabethann]

I have a vet appointment for Cosmo at 4pm today but I thought I would see if anyone on PT would have some ideas. I just noticed about 3-4 days ago that Cosmo's stomach is really huge. He got kidney disease last summer and he got very skinny & frail. Well, last Thursday I just noticed that he is skinny all over but his stomach is gigantic.

My first thought was maybe a tumor or cancer. But then this morning I went to clean his poop box and realized he hasn't gone poop in about 3 days. He's pee'd. He just hasn't pooped.

Do you think he could have a blockage of some kind? What about a tumor or cancer? He continues to eat and he eats allot of wet food, very little dry food.

Has anyone had experience with something like this?

[elizabethann]

It's not looking good for Cosmo.

The vet did some x-rays and he has massive fluid inside his body. The vet drained some of it. She said if it was blood, it was cancer. However, it was clear but she cannot rule out cancer just yet. She also showed me something strange from his x-rays. She said she had NO IDEA what it was. She said it looked like bones. She wanted to know if he ate fish last week and he did. She said it could be bones from the fish. I know I gave him some Fancy Feast that had fish chunks in it.

She said he could have liver disease, cancer, a tumor, even diabetes (which is the last stage of kidney disease). She also said that whatever it is, his chances are not good.

They are doing an ultrasound on him tomorrow or Wednesday. He is staying over at the vets tonight...and maybe tomorrow night.

I knew he wasn't feeling well because he didn't fight to go into the crate. Also, he didn't meow & howl in the car (like he normally does). And when I went out back to say goodbye & goodnight, he was just laying there, looking like he didn't have a care in the world....which is unusual.

I'm not ready to lose 2 cats in 2 months so please, if you can spare some good thoughts for Cosmo, I would appreciate it. Fenway would too. He's not ready to lose another brother.

[Catty1]

Oh no...hugs and prayers for Cosmo, that he gets better soon.

How old is our little boy?

[jennielynn1970]

Is the vet sure it's not FIP? That sounds very much like the symptoms of the wet kind. It's a horrible disease, so I hope that it's not this. The pics are disturbing, but it will give you an idea of the enlarged stomach.

Here are some links:

http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/brochures/fip.html

http://www.newmanveterinary.com/fip.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_...us_peritonitis

[AbbyMom]

Prayers and warm thoughts on the way for Cosmos. And for his mommy and brother Fenway, too.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I'm so sorry to hear that Cosmos is so sick. Lots of prayers and positive thoughts are being sent his way.