Great idea about the binder!
Gina
Caroline Kaufmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Monkee's HCT was 13% two weeks ago (when we first went to the Vet
because I knew something was wrong). That was on a Tuesday. They gave him .3
of Epogen and sent me home with a tiny bottle to give him sub-cu injections of
Epogen that Thurs, and Sat. They increased his predisone (which was 5 mg- I
think? the little, small pills), every other day, to one every day; his Vet
also added the appetite stimulant, 1/2 a pill twice a day. We did the week of
Epogen, went back this Tues. and that is when his HCT count was 10% and his Vet
told us the options (marrow biopsy, transfusion, etc). We did the blood
transfusion on Wed. and they said after it, his count was up to 15%. The
instructions were to just continue the pred and the appetite stim. Nothing was
said about the Interferon or Epogen and I was too out of it to ask because I
was so shocked by the bill from the transfusion (and all I could think was that
we can't afford another one).
He was, what I call "Super Monkee" (it speaks for itself) on Wed., after the
transfusion. But since then, he's gone down a little bit (not with eating
though); but he's defintely less Super Monkee, and he's less bright-eyed. But
he is still sleeping better- actual sound sleeping, as opposed to the just
laying there and staring into space "sleeping."
I have printed your emails and I filed them in "Monkee's Care Binder"- that I
have organized with ALL his information and it has dividers and everything. I
am going to ask questions from the emails when a Vet ever calls me back! But I
decided I need to bring some MAJOR organization to caring for Monkee if I want
to do this right, hence the binder! I highly suggest this to anyone who isn't
already doing something similar. I take The Monkee Binder with me everywhere.
-Caroline
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From: Belinda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: To Belinda: Re: Anemia Issues
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:22:31 -0700
>PS. If it were me I would either find a vet who knows how to work
>with epogen or ask your vet to research it, or take research you've
>done to him and ask him to work with you. Along with the epogen a
>cat should be getting blood builders, nutrived is a good source for
>this. It has the iron, vitamin b needed to build blood. Fred's HCT
>got as low as 24% and the nutrived got him back up to 30%. Nutrived
>wouldn't be enough for a cat with an HCT of 18% or less. I can't
>remember what is Monkee's HCT?
>
>PS. Bailey had the bone marrow aspirate and that is why we very
>strongly suspected cancer somewhere. He had Myloid Dysplastic
>(basically there were pre-cancerous cells there). We did every test
>we could think of and couldn't find the cancer, even after we got
>his HCT to normal, he had no energy and wouldn't eat. He succumbed
>to pancreatic cancer which we found after he passed with a necropsy.
> I suspected his pancreas was involved because he always was
>uncomfortable when I fed him through his feeding tube. He was on
>high doses of prednisolone and was getting doxy just incase his
>hemobartonella test was a false negative. The pred and the epo are
>what got his HCT back to normal and stopped the bone marrow
>surpression by the virus.
>
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>
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