Yesterday night, we found our cat Diego with a paralyzed lower body. No sign of a shock of anything: just paralyzed. He did not seem to be in pain either. We took him to the emergency vet clinic. After inspection, it's likely that he's paraplegic due to some hernia in its lower back, but only an MRI can confirm it. From there, dilemma : the MRI will reveal if it's surgically fixable, which makes it an emergency, but in this case there is a 60% chance our cat can walk again. If it is not, prognosis is not good. Problem is: we needed to decide if we wanted the MRI and operation package on the spot, which costs 3500€ all included, because "only taking the MRI makes it a non-emergency, moving the MRI automatically to Tuesday (Easter monday is a holiday in France so this week end was the worst possible time for this) And waiting makes the prognosis worse even if we end up doing the surgery. We decided to take the surgery package and leave him there until then in their care (he needs help peeing, and we have stairs at home, with two dogs and another cat: not the best environment for a paralyzed kitty). MRI should happen at noon and the operation right after if it's doable. I've spent my entire night dreaming about this again and again and again. I even woke up crying and I don't want to sleep again because I know what my dreams will be about. I hope all of this is worth it and we get back our purring, cuddly kitty, cause the alternative s dire and I don't want to think about it.