Re: Lucy again

[Marylyn]

There is no point in stressing Lucy if you don't have to.  I wonder if there are other sources of pred.  Do you have a farm/seed store around.  Sometimes they have meds for livestock OTC that would require a prescription for a pet.  I don't know but it would be worth a call.    Lots of prayers for Lucy and all the others.  And for you and all the other caregivers.                                                               If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures                                                  from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who                                                  will deal likewise with their fellow man.                                                                   St. Francis ----- Original Message ----- From: catatonya To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 1:41 PM Subject: Re: Lucy again Prayers for Lucy.   take care, tonya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have prayers to spare in this terrible week with so many sick cats, please say a little one for Lucy.  This time she relapsed at 7.5 mg/day of pred.  I am more worried that her ibd could be morphing into lymphoma, as that is a pretty high dose. But maybe I just tapered her too quickly. I am back up to 10 a day and will taper more slowly, but am worried my vet will not refill as he thinks that is too much pred and that she should get a scope if she needs that much. Though I don't see the point, since even if she has lymphoma they would put her on that much pred anyway, and if the pred stops working they use leukeran with both lymphoma and severe ibd, so what is the point of the 3 hours of driving and invasive probes.  But I will have to see, because if my local vet will not keep prescribing the pred when she needs it, I may have no choice. Michelle