Cat currently getting chemo treatments for cancer suddenly went blind over night and questioning quality of life.
As the title says, I am wondering about the wellbeing with all of this going on. She’s eight years old with lymphoma (4/6 months of chemo completed) and went blind overnight as of now no known cause. It could be related to the cancer and it might not. We need to find that out. If it is cancer related I really believe we should put her down. However, if it’s not cancer related I am wondering what to do.
The chemo causes her to barely eat, she has constant diarrhea, dried poop all over her fur, pooping and peeing everywhere, and now blindness. On top of that it’s tearing our family apart from stress and costs and not agreeing on the treatments or not. It’s to the point it’s taken over my elderly mom’s life but no one will listen to me that I think she is suffering too much. And based on my research it seems that all of this is simply buying her time and not a cure but don’t know for sure because they leave me in the dark with everything on this situation.
Any advice on this would be appreciated. I am leaning towards wanting to stop the chemo, keep taking the Prednisone, and try to keep her as comfortable as possible unless things take a turn and then put her to sleep in that case. I think the only way they would listen is if a vet told them though so is there anyway I can ask the vet to do a quality of life assessment with them since I know they will never listen to me?