JJ originally went to the vet for two teeth to be removed. The vets anethetised him for this and he has never been right since. He went back to the vet and they anethetised him again as they said he had a lump at the back of his throat (this subsequently disappeared by the time they looked) although I had asked them to re-assess him and contact me first which they did not do. A vet nurse friend of mine toldd me that if a cat gets stressed while being injected it can cause a heart attack which results in brain damage. this is what has happened to J. After this he started wetting himself and running away, he did not come back of his own accord. He is now half the weight he was but improving all the time. He was an extrovert cat but is now the opposite. It has been a long road to get him even to where we are now and I cannot tell you how happy I am just to have him better, I do not think he will ever be the way he was before. I did point out the lump to the vet and they just said they did not know what it was. I spent £468.00 at this vets, they were pretty useless. they could not also understand that he was wetting himself out of stress and wanted to run a few more tests as they insisted he had a urine infection. He is clean again now, there was no urine infection at all, like most owners I know my cat well enough.

I have read on a forum that cats can get lumps out of trauma or stress.

To add further problems, I myself have been the victim of severe stress and have had to stop working, so funding the vet is also rather difficult at the moment, although if he needs it he will have it of course.