Dear Belinda, sending prayers and positive healing thoughts for your sweet Bailey. I can't imagine the frustration and anguish you must be going through as you try to find the cause of his illness. I'm praying you have a breakthrough with the X-ray. love and hugs, Kerry
----- Original Message ----- From: "Belinda Sauro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 1:56 AM Subject: Re: Bailey Update > Hi All, > Well Bailey's results today show all organ functions are normal, all > bloodwork except amylase is normal (it is high but not high enough at > this point to be concerned) and his HCT is up to 27%, getting close to > normal, so even though his anemia is getting better he is not ... He is > still physically deteriorating. His muscle mass is all but gone, he > still sleeps 24/7, we did finally clear up the diarrhea, and he is a bit > wobbly in the back end when he walks. I can see the wasting getting > worse daily. > > We are going to do an Xray of his lungs to see if there are any enlarged > lymph nodes or tumors we are missing, something is going on that we are > missing. I feel there is cancer somewhere and we aren't finding it, > every cat I have had or known with cancer had this muscle wasting happen. > > We were going to try leukeran, but my vet talked with Dr. Lappin DVM a > FeLV expert and he said it won't do any good in his opinion, he said our > best bet is to add anabolic steriods, which are hard to get because > these are the steriods that athletes abuse. She is going to try and get > some. She printed me out some information and it say's that some FeLV > positives that are anemic and preleukemia can turn actively leukemic > very quickly, in a matter of months or even weeks. This is one > possibility of why even though the anemia seems to be turning around, > Bailey is getting worse. If we find this is the case, I am going to ask > to do chemo along with the steriods, I know the prognosis isn't good but > the steriods will only take care of the muscle wasting and I want to > attack the cancer if that is what we have also. The only way to > determine if this has happened for a fact is to do another bone marrow > aspirate but since it isn't going to change the way we treat we decided > that was unnecessary, it isn't going to change what we do so I see no > reason to put him through that again and neither does the vet. > > Lots of prayers, positive energy and anything else needed, thanks everyone. > > -- > Belinda > Happiness is being owned by cats ... > > Be-Mi-Kitties ... > http://www.bemikitties.com > > Post Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens > http://adopt.bemikitties.com > > FeLV Candle Light Service > http://www.bemikitties.com/cls > > HostDesign4U.com (affordable hosting & web design) > http://HostDesign4U.com > > ----------- > > BMK Designs (non-profit web sites) > http://bmk.bemikitties.com > >
