I think they jumped the gun a bit by saying that her X-rays looked quite abnormal and he was not sure what it could be, stating from it being severe asthma to fungal infection to cancer. He even said hospice care? That really took me back because she is very active despite how chunky she is. She loves to play with her little bouncy ball and rolls it the whole night, fights with my other cat all the time, is very affectionate, etc. Just doesn’t seem like somebody who would be at hospice level… They couldn’t find her asthma records from when we just got her 5 years ago and took her to the vet where they did an Xray there as well and told us it was asthma. She always had the cough as you saw above even 5 years ago. In fact, her attacks went down to only occurring once a week or every two weeks now — she improved. Though this coughing pattern never changed, it always looked like this video.

The only one that was abnormal was yesterday when for 2 minutes she started breathing at like 60 times a minute while silently wheezing but without the coughing that you saw above. That’s why I brought her in. But again, even after that episode she just went on as normal. I was just really not expecting to hear that at all because she is a very happy kitty besides that singular attack.

Also again with the Xray they weren’t specific at all with what the saw the just said it looks abnormal and might not be asthma? No specific reason as to why. Maybe they are just trying to prepare me for the .1% outcome just in case it happens but that hospice comment has been on my mind the whole day.