Renal Failure in CKCS

[Cavstar]

We are having a bad run at the moment.

Our other CKCS nearly 14 yo girl Lucy was diagnosed with acute renal failure & kidney stones around 3 weeks ago.

Leading up to the diagnosis she had gone off her food on/off but still drinking water. 

Vet said as long as she is eating and drinking all is ok.

She is in visible pain & on painkillers and has lost so much weight I can count the bones in her spine.

She refuses to eat anything but chicken which I know is not ideal but even then sometimes that's a stretch. Yesterday she ate nothing. This morning she ate a good amount.  Enough to get some meds in her anyway. She is very wobbly on her feet so I can't walk her. The vet seems to think that this is from a sudden onset of arthritis which she has never had so I'm more inclined to think its part of her kidney disease.

We said to each other when she started refusing food again we would put her to sleep. So we decided that last night but after she ate this morning now I don't know.

I need someone to please tell me what to do. What would you do? 

 

 

[Mairead]

There is a poem that may help you make the decision:

The Last Battle (poem, not novel) It starts 

"If it should be that I grow frail and weak ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Boronia]

You know the answer to your own question otherwise you wouldn't have come here and our answer will always be to say goodbye today.

We all know the hell you are going through but it is always best to take the sooner than later option.

Your little Lucy has had a good life and to prolong it now is just causing distress to her and you and what is another day going to bring?

You can't fix old and sick

 

I will be thinking of you and your dear Lucy today

 

B 

[Rebanne]

What Boronia said. You will regret it if you delay. 

 

Bless you 

[Dogsfevr]

Better a day early than a day late .
She is dying the decision is a slow long one or with dignity