have just got off the phone from my vet........yes i know what time is.
the report has come in from bristol and things are not good.
bristol say that he would need to have one kidney and uretha ?sp, removed but he also has an enlarged heart so would need a heart scan and a kidney biopsy on the good kidney as this is showing signs of deterioation and they do not know how long he would cope with just the one kidney, albeit the bad one which has a stone is more orless not working anyway.
this would need him hospitalized in bristol for about two weeks but he does not fare well in this environment and would be extremely stressed.
the only alternative is convenia jabs to try and stave off infection in the bad kidney and monitoring. if he gets in pain then her recommendation would be to pts immediately as giving of strong painkillers will only act as a temporary block of the pain, the source of which nothing can be done about.
she has two cats herself, a moggy and a burmese aged 9yrs and i asked her what she would do if it was her cat. she said that the burmese was very laid back and hospitalization would not be a problem but for the moggy this was not be possible. however if the burmese was Frantas age, 15 1/2 she would not put him through this and due to Frantas age and breed she did not think that this kind of invasive treatment would be a good idea.
I will get a copy of the report when we go on Friday as she is going away for two weeks and we agreed it was better for her to weigh him and check him out and maybe give convenia before she went away.
She also said that if he started to go downhill and started to vomit etc then also she would recommend PTS cos it would mean that he was suffering and there would be nothing else they could do to help him.
So basically poor Franta is left with only two choices, open cat surgery and scans and stuff, which may not be able to happen if his heart or other kidney are not well enough, or just let him play his days out but with no idea how long he has left
