Should I take my cat that’s coughing up blood and plastic to the vet again?
So my cat (12?F) has been having some recent medical issues, mainly coughing, we have already taken her to the vet a few weeks ago they found no issues but they still gave us medicine which is now done and while that did actually help for a while, when she was on it reducing her hacking into the cat equivalent of clearing your throat but the day after she got off the medication she was throwing up what looks to be part of a plastic bag, she also coughed up what seems to be a mixture of bile and blood on my white sheets about a day later and then on the same day she had coughed up blood she also threw up more plastic, that all happened from the 12-14 she stopped her medication on the 10th and was on it for just under 2 weeks, she still has her cough but we haven’t found anymore plastic or blood but her cough is just as bad as when it started weeks ago despite going down while on medication
Now the vet issue, we don’t really want to take her back, the vet takes about 2 and a half hours to drive to and that’s without traffic issues, there are days in the summer where it can take upwards of 4 hours to get to the town that has the vet and we really only spend an hour of that driving so she would be spending at least an hour in a hot car screaming her head off and trying to break out of the carrier she is already very close to completely breaking through
We also really don’t want her to get any surgeries, she’s still bitter about being neutered, and if she were to get a surgery we would be unable to bring her home right away, it would also probably be bad to drive for that long after surgery, so we would keep her at our rental in the town the vet is in, our rental that doesn’t allow pets and would be an extremely unfamiliar and uncomfortable environment
we really don’t want to take her to the vet again just to not them to not find the issue again, taking her to the vet is a massive commitment we just aren’t positive we should do right away, currently we are monitoring her a lot, shes behaving like her normal self, no energy shifts or anything like that but we are still very concerned, money is not an issue but time is, should we try and take her or just wait it out?