A blood transfusion comes to mind immediately. I can't believe your vet would send home a cat with WHITE gums WITHOUT doing a transfusion, actually (or at LEAST some supplements, and telling you of the OPTION of transfusion). I agree with Tad, your vet sounds like she/he is bordering on malpractice. Do you have any other cats? It may be possible that your vet does not stock blood, or have any donor cats available (and didn't inform you of this option because it isn't an option at HIS/HER clinic). If you have another cat or two, they could be blood typed to see if they could be donors for Cloud. Otherwise, I'd be immediately calling around other area vet's until I found one that:
1. knows what hemobartonella is, and can do the test for it. 2. has the blood on hand and can do transfusions in their office. 3. doesn't give you any excuses about "leukemia kicking in", and seems willing to aggressively FIGHT to save Cloud's life. Jenn http://ucat.us http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Adopt a cat from UCAT rescue: http://ucat.us/adopt.html Adopt a FIV+ cat: http://jenn.rescuegroup.org/FELV/FIV/ http://ucat.us/FIVadopt.html Adopt a FELV+ cat: http://ucat.us/FELVadopt.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I believe she only had the FeLV test, they said when the cat gums turn white, they are very anemic. If they are indeed anemic, does that means it white blood cells are take over the red blood cells? Is there anything that you know of that can be given to her to help her, if indeed this is here problem...Lisa -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 8/26/2005
