WilburTheSphynx
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Hello everyone. I wanted to come back to SphynxLair and thank everyone for all the kind messages and suggestions and tips. For some reason, I have not been getting notifications about replies on this thread and randomly got one yesterday.
I wanted to let you know that I lost Wilbur about two weeks from my original post.
Long, painful story and I will try to make it short. The last proposed diagnosis he got was exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and they said although very rare in cats, it might be the case with Wilbur. He had to have fasted blood work done and that was a nightmare, of course, starving him for 12 hours before the test... Anyway, I was told that if the blood work comes back confirming EPI, he should be on a fast road to recovery. The only problem was trying to get him to eat the enzymes. I asked to start him on the enzyme powder before getting the blood results back as he was melting by the day and I was desperate to try any treatment right away - the lab work would take about a week to get back. The enzymes turned into another nightmare, the first time I mixed the enzymes into his pated duck that he loved so much he took a bite, shook his head, and stepped back. Once he tried the food with the enzymes, he wanted nothing to do with it. He was still crying non-stop as he was constantly hungry but could not keep anything in him. He started having random accidents throughout the house and it was all coming out either like watery diarrhea through the bottom of undigested food through vomiting.
I was told there was another option to get raw pancreas and try adding it to his food but it was too late, he was going downhill quick. The morning fo September 4th I took him outside to sit in the sun as he loved being outside, cuddled in the blanket on my lap. I noticed that his paws were cold, his gums were pale and that day he started hiding. He was failing so quickly and I decided to let my baby go... He lost a total of 45% of his weight, looked like a holocaust survivor, and was crying all the time. A week after his euthanasia I got his blood work results back and it was negative for EPI... they said that the next possibility would have been some sort of aggressive cancer, considering how fast he went downhill and was not responding to IBD medications. However, he had had an ultrasound and they never saw any tumors...
I am heartbroken and devastated. I am also grateful for this community and only wish I would have found it sooner and maybe could have helped baby Wilbur.
I wanted to let you know that I lost Wilbur about two weeks from my original post.
Long, painful story and I will try to make it short. The last proposed diagnosis he got was exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and they said although very rare in cats, it might be the case with Wilbur. He had to have fasted blood work done and that was a nightmare, of course, starving him for 12 hours before the test... Anyway, I was told that if the blood work comes back confirming EPI, he should be on a fast road to recovery. The only problem was trying to get him to eat the enzymes. I asked to start him on the enzyme powder before getting the blood results back as he was melting by the day and I was desperate to try any treatment right away - the lab work would take about a week to get back. The enzymes turned into another nightmare, the first time I mixed the enzymes into his pated duck that he loved so much he took a bite, shook his head, and stepped back. Once he tried the food with the enzymes, he wanted nothing to do with it. He was still crying non-stop as he was constantly hungry but could not keep anything in him. He started having random accidents throughout the house and it was all coming out either like watery diarrhea through the bottom of undigested food through vomiting.
I was told there was another option to get raw pancreas and try adding it to his food but it was too late, he was going downhill quick. The morning fo September 4th I took him outside to sit in the sun as he loved being outside, cuddled in the blanket on my lap. I noticed that his paws were cold, his gums were pale and that day he started hiding. He was failing so quickly and I decided to let my baby go... He lost a total of 45% of his weight, looked like a holocaust survivor, and was crying all the time. A week after his euthanasia I got his blood work results back and it was negative for EPI... they said that the next possibility would have been some sort of aggressive cancer, considering how fast he went downhill and was not responding to IBD medications. However, he had had an ultrasound and they never saw any tumors...
I am heartbroken and devastated. I am also grateful for this community and only wish I would have found it sooner and maybe could have helped baby Wilbur.
