Meant to be my Cat, not my act


Hello,

We have a female cat called beanie. She is 19 years old. We have had her since she was a kitten.
3 Years ago she had a stroke that left her blind and a bit wobbly.

In August we noticed that she was drinking alot of water. The vet took a blood sample to test. The vet told us that she was fine, but lacking potasium. We were given potasium tablets to give her daily. It was then recomended that we did a urine sample, to see if she was diabetic. The results were that she was fine. But the excess drinking was proving to be a mystery. Anyway, last Friday we noticed she could hardly stand, didnt really want to eat anything, and her rear left hand leg was swollen.. I thaught she must of had another stroke. We arranged for the vet to visit yesterday, the vet took a blood sample. We got the results yesterday evening. We were told that she had kidney failure, plus extremely high levels of potasium in her body, and that she probably wouldnt last the night. What I dont understand is, why were these symptoms not picked up on her previous blood and urine tests. And why were her potasium levels so high, when previously they were very low.(We stopped giving her the pottasium tabs in the middle of Sept.).

We are devastated, Beanie means the world to us, at the moment she is lying down on her bed next to me purring. Neither me or my wife can bring ourselves to have her put to sleep. We are praying that she may go in her sleep.

To make things worse we had another cat called charlie who had to be put to sleep 2 weeks ago today. I cant go through that again.

I never realised that I could be this upset. It feels like I have been hit by an express train.

I guess I am writing this as a kind of therapy. Thanks for reading.