Sarai,I am so sorry to hear of your loss of Bella.Felv is such a heartbreaking disease.I volunteer at a sanctuary for fiv+ and felv+ cats and I have seen many last for several years with felv.Good thought to you and Bellas brother to get through this sad time.Hugs to you. Sherry
"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives more temporary than our own, Live within a fragile circle,easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps. We still would have it no other way" --- On Tue, 7/14/09, Orth, Sarai <orth...@dshs.wa.gov> wrote: From: Orth, Sarai <orth...@dshs.wa.gov> Subject: [Felvtalk] Baby Bella 3/4/09-7/9/09 To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 2:41 PM I subscribed to this mailing just a few weeks ago when I found out that my 2 kittens were FeLV positive. I committed to caring for them though the first vet (who since I have since stopped going to) told me to have them put down and "spare myself the agony and financial burden". My girl kitty, Bella, 4 months old had a pretty bad herpes infection with a fever of 105 for over two weeks. She stopped eating her hard food and I so I was spoon feeding her baby food to try to get her to gain weight. She was also on antibiotics- She had good days and bad days, it was quite the roller coaster for those weeks. She seemed to be doing better this past week- interacting more, eating lots, etc. Then all of a sudden, in the middle of the night on Wednesday, her neurological system went haywire. She began biting herself uncontrollably, running into walls, stumbling around and she lost most of her vision. Within 6 hours of the symptoms beginning, we were forced to love enough to let her go. Our new vet was wonderful and helped us through the whole process with kindness. He thinks that the leukemia went systemic and settled in her brain. It feels like it happened so fast. While we are still grieving our loss, we are also very worried about our other kitten. While he is FeLV positive, he has not had any clinical issues. He seems perfectly normal, loving and active. I am wondering if there are others out there with a "not sick" FELV kitty and if so, what kind of measures are you taking to help increase their chance of making it through this? Our vet said that if he makes it to 6 months old, we may be able to re-test to see if he has suppressed the virus. He is just over 4 months old now and has lost his sister, which has been very stressful on him. He is an indoors only kitty. We also have him taking Lysine (to keep herpes symptoms at bay) and Pet-tinic (vitamins). ~Sarai _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
