Michelle,
I have a positive named Killian who is 11 years old and still asymptomatic. I know that we are very lucky and pray to God that she will continue to stay healthy. We really don't know when she got leukemia but just found out that she is positive last June. It was devastating and shocking. That being said, we have done NOTHING different than love her to pieces!!!!! She has not been on any medications or anything like that. Please don't think that Simon could have lived longer if you had done something differently. You did so much for him! What in the world else could you have done? I think cats just have different strains of the virus, some more sever than others and there is nothing that you can do to change that! I guess it's just the luck of the draw. You can't say it's the cats that are well cared for that lived longer. Why has Killian made it to 11? I treat !
her like
I would a negative cat and always have. If she became symptamatic of course I would have to do things differently just as you did for Simon. NO, it's obvious that you did so much for him. I can only hope that if Killian ever got so sick I would have the strength and knowledge to do as well as you!
Kathy
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If it is not too hard, could people let me know the ages of their positives
now, and the ages of positives who have passed? I keep being told that I was
being unrealistic in my hope that Simon, and my others, would live longer than
they did. I had heard of positives living as long as 14. My Jo died at age 3,
Buddy at age 18 months, and Simon was around 4. My largest grief right now is
about his suffering and what he went through, but I am also so grief-stricken
at how short his life was. And it was short, very short, at 4 years old, when
cats can live to 20. But I also feel like it was short for a positive, like I
should have been able to help him live longer than that. I am trying to
assess my expectations of this, regarding my remaining positives as well, and so
just want to know what the age spans really are for positives who are well
cared-for, so maybe I can be more honest with myself about what truly can be
expected.
Thanks,
Michelle
