06/11/2026
I’ve been doing a lot of Googling, but I would love to read the personal stories of those who have or have had cats with heart failure. Even more so if your cat has had both heart failure and kidney disease. It has been so hard for me to wrap my head around the heart disease part and all I can focus on is the “drowning in himself” part, and… I don’t know.
GoFundMe link (also in bio):
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-zane-fight-kidney-and-heart-disease
Video Description:
A white woman in her early 30s, red-brown hair up in a bun, wearing a brown t-shirt that says, “I need a coffee.” She is sitting at her computer chair beside a fluffy black cat that is laying on his leaf bed on a desk.
Transcript:
So my cat has heart failure, on top of stage 3 kidney disease. He was taken to the ER on Monday night, and he had to stay overnight, to become even a little bit stable before he could go to his primary vet.
And funny enough, he was supposed to already go to his primary vet yesterday morning, because he hasn’t been eating for the last week-ish, other than churu and occasionally, some little bites of kibble and wet food. When in the last couple of weeks, when he was actually really good, finally, again, about eating stuff. So I thought, okay, maybe he’s just having another flare with his kidney disease. Or the pancreatitis that seems to be an on and off thing.
But, no, on Monday night, he had 50 breaths in 30 seconds. It was very fast. It was very short. It was very hard. And thus, he needed to go to the ER and that is where we found out that he has heart failure. Left side congestive heart failure. With fluid in and outside of his lungs. And he needs a cardiologist. He needs medication and… my income has been cut in half. More than half, so that’s a fun time. I am struggling with figuring out what it is to do.
Right now, it’s trying to keep him stable until Friday for his follow up appointment. To see if he takes any of his medication. Because he makes it impossible to do so. And yes, I’ve tried all the ways. I’ve had him for almost 15 years, so… we’ve, we’ve made some attempts and experiments. And we also have to see if the medication even works at all. Because if he either doesn’t take the medication or, or if it doesn’t work, the vet has said that a cardiologist probably won’t mean much, because, otherwise, if there’s nothing helping him, he’s just going to be suffering with fluid and that just means more emergency appointments and that means just suffering and discomfort and I don’t want that for him.
So the plan is to take it day by day or at least two days until Friday. Have more conversations. I want to give him a fighting chance, but I also don’t want him to suffer. I already felt that guilt- I already feel that guilt with Simon last year and it’s hard and I don’t know what to do.
Thank you to those who have contributed a little something to help me with taking care of him and any future appointments and medicine. There is a GoFundMe. I will have that linked somewhere on the specific platform of where this will be posted. And we’ll see what happens. I appreciate you all. Thank you.
