I have two cats... for the moment.

The other one, Bombay, is very sick. I noticed her eyes looked odd a few weeks ago, and now that I think about it her energy level had been down for a couple months. It still did seem to come on very suddenly. I took her to a vet, and after a battery of tests, nothing jumped out as being really wrong.

Two weeks after that she was visibly thinner, having suddenly lost a lot of weight. I took her to another vet, my favourite in another city and left her over the weekend for a treatment of steroids.

That didn't work. Comparing the X-rays, there is a visible decline in her lungs over just 4 days. The diagnosis is lung cancer, and my kitty was just barely well enough to take home.

I begged for more time, and instructions on how to recognize breathing distress so I wouldn't be putting her in pain. I've given her a bunch of different foods, in case she wants to eat, and I'm keeping her warm and close.