Our eighteen and a half year old cat sharply declined this week. She's not seeking pets and attention the way she was doing even a week ago, and while obviously I'm hoping there's something obvious and curable, I don't think so. Her arthritis has been managed for a while but she's lost weight too fast. I assume the thyroid is going now.
Eighteen years is pretty good, though not enough. My husband got her as a teeny little kitten in January 2008. She's had a really good life.
Hey so some good updates: she's not actively dying! She had an upper respiratory virus and a UTI at the same time. (Fun fact: this happened to me in 2022 and I thought I was actively dying. I ran a fever for three weeks straight. I lost 30lbs. I got diagnosed with depression because I was sleeping so much but lol it was a UTI.) The cold started to subside and she perked up a lot. So we're doing a course of antibiotics for the UTI. Another update: her thyroid sucks. We can medicate this, it's pretty typical for a cat this age. We've agreed no heroic measures for organ failure, but so long as she's having a good time we're going to keep her around.
Also as we were waiting to pay we saw a white guy with a tiny, trembling chihuahua in his arms...and also the double lightning bolt SS tattoos on each elbow. What the fuck.
