Taylor Scobie Humphrey
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It is desperation. It's the way aids was before they invented all
those drugs for it. I am having the same problem with one of my
darling triplets I raised without a mommy from two days old. Not
only is he FelV pos but also a diag of lymphoma. It has just been a
comedy of errors, TIME, and $$$$ to get to the right (I hope)
oncologist. This is the horrible part: he got it from my mother's
two feral cats because apparently she never bothered to tame them,
which could have been done at the time--they were babies--or take
them to the vet. I'm an only child and divorced and she won't leave
her home and now she can't see so I moved it and this is what has
happened. I feel the triplets and my other two cats have so
nightmarishly betrayed. The vet screwed up, too, because I always
vaccinate my cats for FelV on general principles--once you'ce seen a
beloved FelV pos cat pass away (at ten--but STILL. . . .) you never,
ever want to see that again.
Cassandra, go to the felinelymphomacaregivers.org site.
On Apr 13, 2007, at 6:08 PM, C & J wrote:
I took Tomi to the vet today to have his PCV rechecked. He's been
lethargic again lately. The PCV has gone down to 11 from 17 in the
last week and a half.
I just don't understand it. After his transfusion, his blood count
went up on its own from 13, to 17, then 19. Now in the last few
weeks, its gone down to 17, and now 11.
I've been giving him prednisone again for the last week and a half,
and now all the vet could suggest was to up his prednisone from 1
to 2 tablets a day.
I guess his hemobartonella wasn't the only problem with his blood.
The vet says that its likely his bone marrow is shutting down, and
she didn't think another transfusion would be worth it.
I don't know what the heck else to do. Maybe I should stop his
interferon while giving him the prednisone.
This is so hard, just when I had a glimmer of hope that he might
actually pull through this, now my hope is pretty much gone :
( It's such a feeling of desperation to see him slowly getting
worse, and not being able to do anything about it.
Cassandra
