Hi sosick,

Well I find it difficult, the whole vet thing. I know someone who never gave their cats shots and many of their cats died of cat flues etc....one survived and outlived her kittens (strong cat)....so I find it hard to know which way to go. Yet, I HATE the stuff they have in vaccines and I believe that may have been what finished my cat off. I had lapsed and hadn't taken her for booster shots for years and suddenly, I decided I better do it. At the time, she was a very thin cat (never was the same after she was hit by a car years earlier, appetite pretty bad). But she had good food (mainly raw).

However, she was obviously getting on (14) and I was worried about her as she seemed to be deteriorating or going through a bad patch. The vet I went to, gave her a vaccination shot and then kept her in for blood tests as he felt she had a thyroid problem. When she came back the next day, something wasn't right about her. She wouldn't come inside and I noticed that her leg (front leg) looked funny. Almost like the bone was a bit bigger (i know that sounds weird). I am not sure if it was on the leg she had her blood taken from or not, I cannot remember.

I had no idea that the bone would continue to grow on that leg. Then I was supposed to give her thyroid meds and not long after that, she went blind. I was absolutely stressed beyond belief. The poor thing. I went to another vet who told me it had nothing to do with the thyroid meds and sent me back to another local vet. another vet then gave me blood pressure pills to try and reverse some of the blindness.

Well that made things even worse. At least she could still purr, even though she was blind (I had her off the thyroid stuff by the way, no way would I give it back to her). Well the blood pressure meds finished her off. Though some of her eye sight started coming back, she lost her purr, she lost everything. I had to take her off them and the blindness returned, but sadly her health did not. I sat up with her and watched her in discomfort, I tried to feed her as she would not get up to eat. She would force herself to get up to go toilet so she wouldn't mess the place she was in, even though she was half crippled. The bone in her leg was so swollen she could barely walk.

I took her finally to the SPCA and the guy was lovely and said to me, this cat is so far gone. He said I have never seen a state of bone cancer like this. Sosick how the heck did she get bone cancer????? She had one vaccination and I'm sure that's when it appeared, though they kept her in there for the night, who knows what they did to her. Took blood from her etc, but something went wrong.

Anyway, he had to put her to sleep. I was devastated. To this day I have no idea what that first vet did to her, or what the vaccination did, or what it was. But that's where it began and the thyroid caused the blindness, the blood pressure drug finished her off. the whole thing very weird. I made a complaint to the vetboard and was pretty much ignored and told that I had been offered more treatment for her and I had declined (this is when she was pretty much crippled by their other drugs and they had offered to keep going with it).

So yeah, a dilemma to know what is best. Certainly he was the worst vet I could have gone to. I seem to remember finding out that my cat was not the only one and someone else had their dog go down hill after seeing him as well. Not sure what goes on, seems a really nice guy too.

Your daughter sounds like she's going through a real bad pimple cycle herself. I hope that the prayers help heal her from this. I had a problem with the same thing in my teens too, though it got worse with braces! Much worse! I'm sure she gets excellent foods/diet, so whatever else you give her, here's hoping it gets to the root of the problem <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/byebye.gif" alt="" />