Goodbye to our Kitty

Had to say goodbye to our old girl Harmony yesterday. She would have turned 16 in August. She had been sick for about 3 1/2 months with vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss, and eventually quit eating and had a feeding tube placed . We saw 4 different vets, had multiple blood tests, x rays, ultrasounds, even exploratory abdominal surgery due to a finding on one of the ultrasounds. The finding turned out to be a lesion on her intestines that was sent to pathology and came back as an accumulation of fatty cells/tissue and not malignant. As a last resort, we took her to our state university Veterinary college where they are well known for teaching and producing some of the best veterinarians in the country. In the 5 days that she was there, all previous tests were repeated numerous times as well as endoscopy performed with intestinal, stomach, and colon tissue taken for biopsy. Her condition continued to deteriorate and she eventually went into septic shock and passed away at 2:30 am Monday morning without a definitive diagnosis ever being determined, since the biopsies were still pending. We're really sad and really FRUSTRATED today! I know that it may not have made a difference in the final outcome, but I really wish a diagnosis could have been made, especially early on.