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Caring for my Newly Blind Kitty

I have a sweet kitty girl who was adopted at the age of  8 weeks old.  She is now 16 years old.  My husband and I adore her and consider her our little daughter.  She is sweet, content, has always been a calm, loving cat.  She never jumped on counters or furniture, and never scratched anything except her scratchy posts. Recently, I noticed that she had been acting strange.  She would walk funny and almost seemed confused.  One day I was in my kitchen and talking while facing the living room, a room she never goes in.   She walked right past me and into the living room and sat in the middle of the room.  I called her name and she turned toward me and began to come to me.  She almost walked into the wall.  I looked at her and noticed that her pupils seemed to be dilated and hazy.  I mentioned to my husband that I think the cat had gone blind.  He told me he never heard of a cat going blind.  Honestly, I had...