Hi everyone

I am new to this forum.

Our cat (Mia) is 11 year old and last weekend she began to get unwell (excesive drinking, peeing etc). We took her to the vets on Tuesday and she confirmed her kidneys were enlarged, the vet mentioned cysts (PKD?). Bloods revealed a Urea level of mid 40s and creatinine 500. She said that this indicates she has lost over 90% of her kidney function.
When we returned from the vet, she ate two mouthfuls of food (she has always went straight to the food bowl after a visit to the vet)...she then never ate anything at all. We now started to notice her weight loss and dehydration. We tried our best to coax her into eating (she was still regularly drinking) and booked her in for IV fluids the next day.
We dropped her off to begin her fluids at 08:30 and picked her up at 17:30 hrs (some say this may not be long enough....but she is only a small cat).
She looked a lot better and lively, obviously still weak due to stress/weaight loss etc.
We have managed to get her to eat little and often...between returning from the vet and the next morning she ate @ 100g of Royal Canin Renal wet food.
To our delight, she then went out in the garden this morning and had the first poo since probably sunday. That was a bit of a relief...however, although she has been eating and drinking, we have not seen her pee apart from when she peed in the car on the way home from her IV fluids.
We are now worried that she can't pee! We are going to monitor a bit more today then make a call to the vet if she doesn't pee....just incase it's a urinary tract blockage (which is going to build up toxins she already can't deal with).
Yesterday, she also had Nandrelone to give her an appetite....she is also taking Tagamet (for suspected throat and stomach ulcers) and she is also on a 2 week course of Fortekor to reduce the Phosphate etc.
The other day, her vet mentioned using Milk of Magnesia to ease her stomach acid (which comes with CRF)....but I'm unsure if Tagamet is now doing this???

Fingers croosed we have a good weekend with her...we will be taking her back for bloods to see how she is doing (if not eating...it will be nandralone again).

This week has been absolutely heartbreaking for us, she is like a child to us and we so want to do everything we can to extend her life/quality of life.
Hence we have joined this forum in the hope that there may be others that have been through the same thing and be able to offer tips/advice.

We now have glasses and bowls of water throghout the house...she is even allowed to sleep on our bed now....which she has always wanted to do! She purrs for the first 10 mins before settling, then If you touch her through the night, she starts to purr again. On occassion she will climb onto my wife when she is lying down in her furry dressing gown and have a good purr (accompanied by the usual paw massaging)...it's good to see her doing this, as we've read that it releases 'feel good' hormones.

Anyhow....just realised I'm going on a bit too much....so I'll just say 'Hello' and hopefully look forward to any advice or support that you can bring.
I have read a lot about her condition, so hopefully I may too be able to offer advice.