My youngest cat (10F) isn’t doing well, and I’m having a hard time deciding what the right course of action is.

We took her to the vet this past August after she started pooping on the floor outside of her liter box - She was severely dehydrated, and given an IV ($700) to help get some fluids back into her.

Unfortunately, we can’t afford $2,500 for an ultrasound of her, so the basic blood and stool panel (still $900) that we got done at the time is all that the vet has to go off of. The vet couldn’t really point at anything that was wrong with her aside from being dehydrated and clearly dealing with IBS.

We bought multiple filtered running water fountains for throughout the house, started giving her prescription sensitive bowel wet food, an anti inflammatory, and a probiotic in hopes that it would help.

Unfortunately, she continues to deteriorate, and I don’t want to see her being uncomfortable and constantly begging for food, losing weight, and sleeping next to her water bowls. It’s also very fatiguing on me cleaning up poop on the floor, scooping the liter box multiple times per day, dealing with constant meowing begging for food, and generally having her health be a 24/7 thing.

I don’t know when to make the tough decision to put her out of her pain. Do you have advice? I know that it’s the right thing to do at this point, but it’s hard to bring myself to doing it. I’m supposed to have in-home euthanasia performed this coming Friday, but every ounce of me wants to cancel it because I might find the “miracle” solution to her problems between now and then.

And before it’s mentioned: Yes, I have a therapist. I have a session on Thursday and Saturday this week. It still just fucking sucks. She is such a sweet girl, and in my mind, our pets would always pass away from oldest to youngest.