Ditto from me!
=^..^= Terri, Salome', Siggie the Tomato Vampire, Guinevere, Sammi, Travis,
and 5 furangels: RuthieGirl, Samantha, Arielle, Gareth and Alec =^..^=
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:45
PM
Subject: RE: Update on Princess
Grace
Nina,
Sending healing vibes from us to the
Princess. May she live long and
prosper!
-----Original
Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Behalf Of Nina
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:46 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject:
Update on Princess Grace
Grace and I could use your prayers and
good vibrations. She has been
feeling poorly the last couple of
months. Usually when she feels crummy
I put her on a round of Dox,
and she feels better almost immediately.
Not so, this time. I
put her on Dox and she didn't improve
significantly. I took her off
of Dox and started the five day protocol
of Virbagen Omega, (injections of
feline interferon, 1x daily). Again,
she improved slightly, but not
significantly. After the 4th day, I
stopped the VO and put her back
on Dox. She's been getting the Dox
again for about a week, she
continues to improve, but is still not
herself. I've also been
giving her oral interferon (chasing the Dox
pill with it), transfer
factor, Lysine, Co-Q10 etc. Her appetite is
off, so I had to stop
the supplements to get her to eat. I'm going to
try some transdermal
Cyproheptadine to see if it helps her eat more.
You may think I'm
crazy, (so what's new?), but I talked to two different
ACs that told me
they did not think there were any tumors involved, or
problems with any of
her internal organs, just a feeling of general
malaise. I had an
appointment with our Internist today, but Grace seems
to have improved
more in the last couple of days, so I canceled it. It
was a
difficult decision to make. Grace suffers greatly from the stress
involved in a visit to the vet and knowing that there would be several
different tests involved to determine what is going on with her...
Well, I just decided not to put her through it. There's been too
many
times that after the trauma and expense, nothing new has been
learned.
I don't feel completely confident in this decision, but if
she doesn't
continue to improve I can still bring her in later. I'm
waiting for a
call from the vet to discuss a different antibiotic in case
Grace has
finally built a resistance to Doxycycline. For heavens
sake, we don't
even know why Dox has worked for her! Anyway, if you
could take a
moment to think of my Grace and wish her well, it would be
greatly
appreciated.
Nina
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