Well this is the way I look at it, she will die without something
being done, and as I said hemobatonella is VERY hard to diagnose, I know
of several cats on the anemia list that were tested 4 or 5 times coming
up negative but thankfully their mom insisted they get doxycycline,
guess what they got better, they tested negative but obviously had it.
That is the very least I would do, most vets know how hard it is to test
for hemo and with an FeLV+ would put them on doxy to be safe rather than
sorry. It won't hurt her if she doesn't have it but may well save her
life if she does. Thats all I'm saying about that.
When Bailey died, I had decided to finally allowed my vet to do surgery
to find out what was going on, he was in very bad shape, temp of 98,
blood not clotting, he got a transfusion to get his blood to clot, he
survived the transfusion, his blood was clotting without that they
couldn't do the surgery. For him it was too late his body was shutting
down, his temp continued to go down and my vet told me, she could go in
quickly and see if anything jumped out at her but she told me he was
leaving us ... I brought him home and he died an hour later. She had
wanted to do exploratory surgery days, even weeks earlier while he was
still in decent shape but I thought he still seems OK so I didn't want
to upset the apple cart. So many things I did and didn't do that I see
now in hindsight contributed to his death.
When I lost my Frankie (FeLV+) in 1995, his HCT was at 6%, my vet was
going to do a transfusion on him if I wanted to, she said nothing about
him not surviving it, way back then I was very ignorant and decided to
take him home and think about it overnight, he died at 11PM that night,
he had come back from several very bad spots, in hindsight I wish I had
gotten the transfusion, I know he would have bounced back again.
This is what I would do, at the very least put her on doxy and
prednisolone and I stand by what I said, this vet does not have a clue
about treating a cat in crisis with FeLV. Please don't take this as
anything against you, it's your clueless vet that has me screaming, too
many positives lose their lives because the vet seeing them is so
unknowledgable about FeLV.
She *may not* survive the transfusion, especially done by this place but
she will die without something being done, that is a fact! I'll take a
*may not* over a *for sure* any day. Again this is not anything against
you, I know you are doing what you think is best, I just wish you had a
better vet ...
Oh- the vet did call another vet in Tampa and they conquered regarding
Foxys condition and that she probably wouldnt survive the transfusion
and if she did it would only give her a couple of weeks at the most.
--
Belinda
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