Hi,

I'm new to this forum and it seems very good so I'm hoping someone can help me. My 15 year-old Katie was not eating for awhile due to stress (I think) and she was getting better (eating little bits of food every couple of hours and starting to play again, and still purring like the dickens) but she had lost quite a lot of weight. I don't really trust vets too much, but I took her to see one and they insisted that they needed to put an esophagol feeding tube in right away. They put it in yesterday morning.

It is the worst mistake I've ever made.Gone is my sweet old kitty and in her place is a grumpy kitty who can hardly move. I'd like to have the tube removed, but I know she wouldn't make it through another surgery so soon after this one so I'm trying to make do in the meantime. Please, does anyone have any experience with cats on these tubes? Do you know how long it takes them to get used to them? She's not vomitting the food, but she's not really moving and can barely get up to go to the washroom. The tube is supposed to allow her to eat on her own (as well as being fed through the tube) and is supposed to encourage her to start eating again, but she's going to her water and food dishes and just staring at them helplessly. She basically moves from under the bed to under the couch and that's it.

And I'd just like to say that, in my opinion, this surgery for an old cat just seems to have totally reduced her quality of life. I regret not having let her grow old happily and gracefully. Sorry about the length/melodrama of this post, I'm just getting a more than a tad upset about the state of my kitty that I love so much.

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