This is a memorial to the love of my life, Mikey Mikey passed away at 2 am this morning. I am devastated at this loss. He was my whole world. The house feels so empty without him as he had a very big personality. He died before his time. I took him to the vet on Saturday because he had trouble eating because the veterianarian had put him on a cat food that constipated him very badly. He could not go to the litterr box and so stopped eating. I took him to get the vet to help him. The vet took x-rays and blood tests. When we looke at the x-ray we could see how he was plugged up so the vet said he would give him an enema to unplug him. I watched how this was done and it seemed easy enough when I was thee. The vet said he would have to do it again later and told me he would keep Mikey for a day. I asked about the eating and said that I was worried that Mikey had Hepatic Lipidoses. Feline Hepatic Lipidosis (Fatty Liver Disease) is fairly common in cats, particularly older cats that have lost a lot of weight in a short time. Fatty liver disease has a good chance of reversal if caught early enough by feeding the cat. The vet said he doubted it and I kept saying yes he had it. The vet just focued in on the constipation. I had gone home and the vet put the cat under so much stress with this process because the cat was not so cooperative when I was not there. In any event I went to the vet on Monday to pick him up and he was totally lethargic. The vet said he had diabetis and we should euthanise him. I said no that diabetis could be treated. I asked about the feeding. They squeezed the side of his face and put food on the roof of his mouth. I said is that all.I knew about syring feeding and asked the vet for one and he just said to do it the way he had. He acted like he was druged and I asked the vet if he had drugged him and he said, No. I for the life of me don't know why I agreed to take him home as he was so sick and I don;t know what the vet was thinking. I got him home and he was still right out of it. He could not walk or eat o anything. I just had him lay on my bed. Well at 230 he started to cry . I have never seen this he cryed like a human as he was in so much pain and he cried and cried and then died. I could not stop it. Today at the vet I asked what happened and did the test results come back. The radiology report said Hepatic Lipidoses. No blood work was back so we autopsied Mikey and the vet took out his liver and sure enough he had HL. It is treated by inserting a feeding tune and syringe feeding the cat. It is totally reversible in 6 weeks. I asked the vet why he had not done this. I had paid him $500.00 for all this. Why did he not insert the tube as I would have then taken him home and fed him. The vets answer was that the cat was not very cooperative. You need to use anethesia to do this as it is a surgical procedure. Anyway we checked the kidneys etc and everything was fine and we knew his asthma was being well controled. The vet said he would have had another 4 or 5 years of life. He was only 10 years old. The Vet screwed up big time and I feel so guilty for ever having fed him that crap cat food the vet told me to feed him. I should have known better. I also should have been more insistant to feed him with the tube. I just feel so bad that I let my baby down when he needed me most. I loved that little guy so much and will miss him alot. He had such a big personality. He was my little Lion.