What a wonderful thing! Congrats to Izzie. Retesting can be good!
Gloria
On Oct 30, 2006, at 11:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
It's been awhile since I've been here but I wanted to share my good
news and perhaps give the group a little more data for the
collective FELV knowledge base you've got going here.
To start at the end, Saturday my girls were retested and while Lucy
is still positive, Izzie has thrown it and is now negative! Yippee
Izzie!
I thought it might be helpful for those of you with questions about
"throwing it" to have a timeline:
March 15 - I adopted Lucy and Izzie, sisters, at age 4 months,
supposedly both FELV negative.
April - May - Lucy had recurring URI's, she would get sick, I'd put
her on antibiotics, a week after she was off of them she'd get sick
again.
May 29th - Lucy tested FELV positive, Izzie negative. This led to
some agonizing on my part about whether or not to keep them
together. Thanks in large part to the information I got from this
group, I kept them together knowing that Izzie could wind up
positive, but willing to take the risk.
July 7th - Izzie gets spayed and tests positive. The vet tells me
there is "virtually no chance" Izzie will throw it and that most
likely the May negative on Izzie was false.
October 28th - the vet retests (she didn't want to because she was
convinced Izzie was still positive but I insisted because I had a
"feeling", I also gently reminded her that they told me Lucy
wouldn't make it to her first birthday, a birthday which is next
Monday and she appears to have no intention of not making it!) And
now Izzie is negative!
My best guess is that Lucy was exposed at the shelter to a pos
kitty and for some reason it didn't enter Izzie's system until late
June or early July and Izzie was able to fight it. They are amazing
little best friends and I think Izzie is going to help keep Lucy
healthy!!
Maggie
