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**Leslie =^..^= * On 3/7/07, Leslie Lawther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
*Someone had posted a clothes-pin trick... does anyone have that link still?! Sounds like this would do the trick for this little one...* *Leslie =^..^=* On 3/7/07, Del H. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *Years ago I gave my Felipe fluids/sub-Q at home and he just sat there, > no problem.* > *PLEASE tell me what I can do to keep a jumpy fellow cooperative. I > can't go back to the vet every day where he/Malachi, 18#, lays quite sweetly > for the tech. This is the third day I have failed, confidence in myself is > history. Sent hubby out for chocolate to sooth my wounded ego. Malachi is > generally an easy-going guy. Any and all tips would be greatly > appreciated. I have two CRF who will be needing sub-q soon, too. * > ** > *Del* > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Kelly L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:45 PM > *Subject:* Re: False positive and negative? > > > At 06:39 PM 3/6/2007, you wrote: > > BOY do you need a new VET....and learn to do fluids at home, we can all > help and there is a pharmacy on line where you can get what you need once > you become comfortable and I CANT IMAGINE a vet with holding > treatment!!!!!!!!!!!!! > Congratulations for using your own brain and boy would I be telling that > vet off!!! > Kelly > > > > I have seen a lot of you post that your cats posted negative, positive, > negative. Is this common? Do some cats get over it or are the tests errored? > > My beloved Nebs was diagnosed two weeks ago just after his fourth > birthday. I took him to the vet with a very bad case of the runs and no > appetite. The vet, one I had not been to before, told me Nebs was felv > positive and would be dead in a matter of days. He told me his kidneys were > huge and the virus had destroyed them. He recommended that I put him down > right away. I couldn't do it. He was too special and deserved a chance. He > told me nothing would help. I asked him to do what another vet had done for > another cat once, an injection of fluids for dehydration. He gave him that, > but refused any medication, saying it wouldn't do any good. The next day, I > begged him for some antibiotics and he gave me them but told me not to get > my hopes up. I gave Nebs the medicine, and some Pet-tonic. The next day he > was eating again. In two days, he was eating like a hog. In 3 days, his runs > were gone. > > It's now been 2 weeks, and instead of being dead as the doctor > predicted, he's practically back to normal! He's gained almost all his > weight back and has his swagger again. His third eyelid, present for almost > a year, is also gone. His stools are more normal than they've been in ages. > I am wondering if maybe he'd had a severe kidney and intestional infection, > and when that was cleared up, he was all right. I don't know if he's really > felv positive or not, I'll get him retested at another vet soon, but even if > he has it, his immune system was not as 'shot' as the vet said it was. > > So my questions are, are the tests sometimes wrong, and can a cat go in > and out of good health while being infected? I had always heard the first > sickness would basically be the last. > > I also want to say, please do not give up on your kitty if the vet says > to put him down, he's going to die. You know your pet better than anyone, > and if you feel he isn't at his end, don't do it. I am so glad I gave Nebs > another chance when the vet didn't. > > > The fish are biting. > Get more visitors<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49679/*http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php?o=US2140&cmp=Yahoo&ctv=Q107Tagline&s=Y&s2=EM&b=50>on your site using Yahoo! > Search Marketing.<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49679/*http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php?o=US2140&cmp=Yahoo&ctv=Q107Tagline&s=Y&s2=EM&b=50> > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.413 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/711 - Release Date: 3/5/2007 > > -- Leslie =^..^= To leave the world a better place - whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or an improved social condition - that is to have succeeded. That only one life breathed easier because you lived - that is success. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
-- Leslie =^..^= To leave the world a better place - whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or an improved social condition - that is to have succeeded. That only one life breathed easier because you lived - that is success. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
