Hello all. Thanks for your support back in March when Jack had his surgery. 

Jack is 12 yo and has been one-eyed since he was a year old thanks to the herpes virus. He has little vision in his remaining eye due to corneal scarring. So I say he is my one-eyed, half-blind cat. Sadly, this leg tumor thing came about on the same side as his missing eye, so he has a lot of right side issues now!

Jack's recovery went well. He was even leaping up to the banister much to everyone's shock and dismay. But a few months ago he started what I would say would be going downhill. He started losing energy, it seems like he was losing confidence in his walking. Where he had been eager to jump and hop and leap up to his favorite high perches, now he was hesitant to even try to climb the steps.

Now he is very stumbly and uncoordinated when he walks. He falls over easily and can jump up into the recliner, but that is the only place he will jump up to now. our bed is higher than the recliner and he has fallen a few times trying to jump up there and I think he has stopped trying. 

It breaks my heart. 

He has been to the vet and has had all blood work, which has come back clean, and a full set of X-rays, which shows no new tumors and no breaks or cracks anywhere. He has just a touch of old man arthritis, but nothing to explain his new rabbit-like stance or his hesitant way of walking. he now likes to put all of his weight on his backside and sit on his haunches like a little bunny.

so I don't know if he has fallen enough times that it has just broken his spirit, if there is something else going on neurologically or that won't show up in blood work or an x-ray, or if he just realized he is missing a leg and and eye. He is really having trouble balancing and navigating with that right side blindness. The vet is not overly concerned, but she is not with him all day.

When I hold him, he stiff arms his front leg like he's looking for the floor. Keep in mind he has no depth perception. He's a lot more nervous than he used to be in a lot of ways. And our big cat who has always been super friendly to him, keeps trying to mount him because he is a big old butt. Yes they are all neutered but I have no idea what's going on there. Just the way to express his superiority I guess. 

So far I've been unsuccessful in getting a good video of him walking and stumbling around. He's great at avoiding the camera. If I get one I'll be happy to share it. 

Jack is on steroids, one little pill a day. I think it's helping a little bit. I have a friend who keeps suggesting a glucosamine supplement for him. I have no experience in whether that would help or not. 

Thanks for listening to my tale of Jack's woe. I think the old Jack is still in there somewhere, but I got to figure out a way to get to it. I need to figure out what is going on with his little broken body and fix it up. I would love to hear any suggestions or experience that you have that might help. Thank you.