Ulalena... poor Tana, that sounds terrible. I lost two cats to cancer many years ago, it was so sad.
My current cat who is sick has a spastic bowel disorder, he has had it since my family adopted him about four years ago. It means he has to eat special prescription food and only small amounts at a time. So he has trouble getting enough good nutrition. Recently he went through a few days where he was refusing to eat at all so the vet did blood tests and found he needed more treatment than just the prescription food because his liver was in trouble from the lack of food and he was losing weight too fast. So now we are giving him steroids. Unfortunately the last time we gave him steroids for the spastic bowel, the side effect it has of suppressing the immune system meant he got a terrible virus infection that kept him from being able to breathe; we are afraid it will happen again but so far he is breathing OK. At this point, without the steroid his liver will fail so we are very worried.
Naytiri, good luck, you will have a lot of fun when you go to Japan!
