I have a little 14 year old male tabby cat he was healthy most of his life until about the last 9 months. At this point I am pretty sure he is dying but the vet wants to keep running tests specifically another ultrasound, the issue is they can't or won't really articulate what they could learn from it. On the other hand vet visits really stress him out and last time he had an ultrasound he didn't eat for about a week so I'm trying to balance giving him the best chance I can and not torturing him just because I dont want to loose him.
A brief medical history.
This past October he was diagnosed with diabites but went into remission in about 2 months and had stayed in remission. But has slowly lost weight ever since.
Immediately after he was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney failure later revised to a bad infection. His kidney function dropped to 10% then came back to 20-30%
He then was diagnosed with swollen intestines thought to be stress, then food sensitivity related. He was put on apatite stimulants and steroids. He has come back off the steroids but we still use the apatite boosters on occasion.
His last round of blood and urine tests showed diabetes still in remission kidneys no worse, no infection.
Since October he has gone from 12 to 8.6lb. No foods really meet his dietary needs between diabetes, kidney failure and allergies but we do our best. We have to rotate foods all the time or he stops eating. He does ask for food but never eats enough. He has less energy but is still affectionate, can jump and climb his cat tree and plays on occasion but he is slowly wasting away.
If we can help him short of super drastic interventions (no cat chemo in this house) we absolutely will but I don't want more tests just for the sake of them.
Am I out of line here and not being reasonable? I love this cat I have had him 14 years so I know I can't exactly be impartial.