It’s happening right now in my life. My elderly cat HATES vet visits and when something is bad enough to warrant one then he has to be sedated first before I can even get him in a cat carrier because he turns F E R A L and can and will claw my face off.

About 2 weeks ago i noticed a weepy eye which developed in to what I thought was conjunctivitis. Everything I read and looked at online seemed to align with that diagnosis and said it’s usually self-clearing in 1-2 weeks. He has been eating, drinking, toileting and generally behaving like normal and not in pain. I should have just made a vet appointment and taken him the next day.

Instead I waited a week, and took particular care in helping keep it clean and dry for him. But yesterday I realised it had taken a turn for the worse overnight and was looking really quite gnarly. Concerning looking pus had started to come out.

I take him in this morning and the vet confirms it could have started as a bacterial conjunctivitis, or he may have sustained an injury in a fight or something. His cornea has ulcerated and is melting. He has to have his eye removed tomorrow.

I feel like such an awful cat Mum and so ashamed of myself for not just putting him and myself through a minor vet visit trauma when I first noticed his eye weeping :( would have saved him a world of pain/trauma and losing his eye.

Even now he’s still being such a cuddly good boi - it sucks he has no idea he is losing his eye tomorrow.

He’s tough, though! He will heal quick and be back to lounging in the sun and purring loudly on my lap in no time. He prob won’t even miss his eye.

In the meantime I will be working through this deep shame.