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Bleurgh. Our poor cat is having a really tough time of it at the moment.
Fabric is 7 and has been in what appears to be good health all his life apart from the fact he has a fairly severe (4/6) heart murmur that he has had since birth. We found him dragging his rear legs on the 27th of December and the immediate panic was that he had a saddle thrombus which I have always resolved would be an end of life scenario. No cat should have to face that kind of pain with such poor prognosis after treatment. We were fully expecting him to be put down.
Anyway, by the time we got him to the vet (20 mins max) his legs had recovered and he was fine. Tests have shown that his heart is enlarged but he has no symptoms of heart failure or a blood clot. His kidneys are fine too and he isn't diabetic.
The only symptoms he has are blood in his urine and a lot of pain when the vet palpates his bladder. The vet reckons he is in too much pain for it to be typical cystitis. He is also urinating normally and showing no day to day distress at all.
Just waiting to hear what an ultrasound finds. Starting to sound like the poor fella might have some form of bladder cancer.