Re: re Foxy/ bad news

[Belinda Sauro]

    Well this is the way I look at it, she will die without something 
being done, and as I said hemobatonella is VERY hard to diagnose, I know 
of several cats on the anemia list that were tested 4 or 5 times coming 
up negative but thankfully their mom insisted they get doxycycline, 
guess what they got better, they tested negative but obviously had it.  
That is the very least I would do, most vets know how hard it is to test 
for hemo and with an FeLV+ would put them on doxy to be safe rather than 
sorry.  It won't hurt her if she doesn't have it but may well save her 
life if she does.  Thats all I'm saying about that.

When Bailey died, I had decided to finally allowed my vet to do surgery 
to find out what was going on, he was in very bad shape, temp of 98, 
blood not clotting, he got a transfusion to get his blood to clot, he 
survived the transfusion, his blood was clotting without that they 
couldn't do the surgery.  For him it was too late his body was shutting 
down, his temp continued to go down and my vet told me, she could go in 
quickly and see if anything jumped out at her but she told me he was 
leaving us ... I brought him home and he died an hour later.  She had 
wanted to do exploratory surgery days, even weeks earlier while he was 
still in decent shape but I thought he still seems OK so I didn't want 
to upset the apple cart.  So many things I did and didn't do that I see 
now in hindsight contributed to his death.

When I lost my Frankie (FeLV+) in 1995, his HCT was at 6%, my vet was 
going to do a transfusion on him if I wanted to, she said nothing about 
him not surviving it, way back then I was very ignorant and decided to 
take him home and think about it overnight, he died at 11PM that night, 
he had come back from several very bad spots, in hindsight I wish I had 
gotten the transfusion, I know he would have bounced back again.

This is what I would do, at the very least put her on doxy and 
prednisolone and I stand by what I said, this vet does not have a clue 
about treating a cat in crisis with FeLV.  Please don't take this as 
anything against you, it's your clueless vet that has me screaming, too 
many positives lose their lives because the vet seeing them is so 
unknowledgable about FeLV.

She *may not* survive the transfusion, especially done by this place but 
she will die without something being done, that is a fact!  I'll take a 
*may not* over a *for sure* any day.  Again this is not anything against 
you, I know you are doing what you think is best, I just wish you had a 
better vet ...

Oh- the vet did call another vet in Tampa and they conquered regarding 
Foxys condition and that she probably wouldnt survive the transfusion 
and if she did it would only give her a couple of weeks at the most.

--

Belinda
happiness is being owned by cats ...

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