Tracy,
You are another amazing person out there loving our
cats! I am sorry for your pain and loss. They are
lucky they had you and you them...
Glenda
--- Tracy Weese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I lost two of my FeLV+ cats in the last month, the
> most recent was today when I put CW down. She was
> beginning to have difficulty breathing due to severe
> anemia. I tried a transfusion (only raised the RBC
> from 6% to 10%) and Epogen, but.... today my vet and
> I could see that she was becoming more and more
> uncomfortable and she was extremely pale, I swore
> that I would not wait until it was too late, I'd
> rather be a day or so too early. We had a nice
> three weeks, but today, I could tell the light had
> gone out in her eyes.
>
> Just last month Sylvester died at home and a few
> months before that, another FeLV+ cat, Herbie, had
> to be PTS.
>
> Funny, I have a negative cat (that is 12) with
> stomach cancer and have been treating him for more
> than 18 months (he probably had it at least a year
> before). He has not gone into remission, and we
> have done EVERY chemo protocol out there, but it has
> stopped growing and he is like the energizer bunny
> ... he keeps going and going and going. I really
> expected him to go long before the other
> three............ regardless, I miss them all.
>
>
> Tracy
>
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