My girlfriend and I have been in and out of the vet with our first kitty baby together. Athena is a 3-year-old domestic short hair diluted tortoiseshell cat. She loves the colors yellow and orange and watching birds.

Around 4 weeks ago, we started to have a series of issues arise with her not peeing in the litter box and problems going to the bathroom. We got her into the vet right away and got her a urinalysis and her ears checked. We found she had a double ear infection, and it showed urine crystals. We were able to get her on ear drops and a c/d complete diet, and the vet helped her go to the bathroom. After 10 days, her ears made a significant improvement, and we brought her in again to check the crystals. Unfortunately, it seemed she still had them and was vomiting her food up and still not using the bathroom consistently.

This led to multiple vet appointments in the last 3 days for constipation, urinary tract infection, and laxatives. She had to be sedated, and it broke our hearts she was not able to act like herself or show her personality. After the sedation wore off, she still would not pee, and this has been 32 hours of not going to the bathroom at all. She would play, eat, watch birdies, and love on us, but when it was time for the bathroom, she would sit in there and scratch and not be able to go.

Finally, last night we had to take her into the emergency vet, and they had to sedate her again and put a catheter in to help her pee. She is now staying at the emergency vet for 3 days and nights while we are struggling to find the money or the budget to save our girl. She is only 3 years old, and we want to see her live a long life, but we don't want to rob her of that if her vet bills keep piling up. Any help would be appreciated, or any advice from pet owners who have gone through something similar would be great.

Our next steps have medical therapy done with a muscle relaxer to see if she can pee on her own. If she cannot pee on her own, then we will proceed with doing a CT-Scan and Scope of her bladder.