Ask your mother if she would like to be put down under the
circumstances. Don't let her get you down.
You did wonderfully. No matter how it turns out, Charlotte is a very
lucky cat and she knows it.
On Apr 19, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Laura Mostello wrote:
I brought Charlotte back to the vet yesterday. She still wasn't
doing well, just nibbling at her food and appearing very lethargic.
Since I wasn't especially happy with my vet's response to her, I
tried another clinic that I'd heard good things about, just to get a
second opinion. Dr. Ray took more blood and told me that Charlotte
was indeed very anemic - her PCV was 9% versus about 40% for a
healthy young adult cat. So I was a little ticked off that my
regular vet didn't tell me just how anemic she was, and a week had
gone by when something else could have been done. The vet was
concerned about tumors but X-rays showed nothing. He recommended
that a blood transfusion be done immediately, so he packed up his 22
pound donor cat and I brought both cats to North Fulton emergency
center since they were just down the road & Dr Ray's office was
closing for the day.
I picked Charlotte up at 11:30 last night (lots of coffee was needed
since it was an hour and a half drive) and she was so hungry! She
started chowing down right away. She now has doxycycline and
Prednisilone twice a day. Now we just have to wait for the rest of
the test results to come back. I'll keep you all updated.
Thank goodness for Visa....it was almost $900 yesterday. My mom
asked me, "Why didn't you just put her down?" but I couldn't. She
doesn't want to die. She's purring and rolling over to be petted and
even yesterday when she didn't feel good she was going up to
everybody and looking for attention.
Laura
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