Sad News
3 April 2021Thank you all for donating, it allowed us to get as far as we could with little Fay and trying to diagnose, treat & cure her.
Sadly, we had to let Fay cross the rainbow bridge this evening.
We took her to the vet this morning, as per the plan she had her lung drained alongside the usual. We then had to wait for a phone call for another quote on a chest drain, which ended up being $2000-$3000 just till Tuesday, with a result that is not guaranteed to help or stop there, the draining might've had to continue.
So we ended up doing some tests first to see if something else was the cause - after a double plate x-ray of her chest it was revealed her lungs and heart area were so full of liquid & pass that her heart could barely be seen on x-ray, let alone anything else.
At this point we were at the clinic trying to work out the next move, we had an extensive talk with the vet and after watching Fay still really struggling to breathe and observing how weak she was. We were advised that it's probably for the best to have her euthanized at this point.
Even if we did the chest drain, with how weak she'd become and the fact that the lung drains every day weren't working, making her condition only get worse, that she likely wouldn't survive the procedure or what followed it.
Today she had 75mls drained from her lung which is 25ml more than last time, her temperature and other symptoms had only gotten worse, too.
We had her on 3 antibiotics, pain relief and cage rest alongside constant monitoring but no matter what she seemed to only get worse.
At the least, she'd perked up a lot and wanted affection but this must've just been due to the pain relief.
She'd lost a lot of weight despite special vet food and wouldn't drink water by itself.
We are incredibly sad to let such an amazing, loving little girl go but we couldn't put her through anymore suffering.
I only had her for 5 months, but I hope the home she had for that time was a happy one.
Unfortunately, most of her life she was ill, before we adopted her, she'd had cat flu for the first 7 months of her life.
Thank you all for your kind messages and for the donations, you made getting as far as we did with Fay possible. Thank you for believing in Fay and for your thoughts and prayers for her.
Just under $2000 or so was spent on her vetcare in the past week.
We will be closing donations now but again, thank you all very much. If there ends up being any spare money leftover, I will donate it to the SPCA which is the shelter I adopted her from and hope they can use it to save more kitties just like her.