Jenny it is wonderful to hear that Autumn is recovering. I am
praying that TCLI will get her through this. We'll all be waiting for
her progress reports.
I know that many vets are suspicious of treatments outside of
their parameters. My vet was turned off Imulan by their inability to
give
her data on clinical trials. If Autumn continues to improve and recover
from deaths door, we will all celebrate with you and there will be hope
for all our cats.
Jane
On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:24 AM, jbero tds.net wrote:
Hello everyone,
I wanted to give you an update on Autumn and the TCLI injection
(Imulan).
When I brought her to the emergency center last Tuesday, she was
starting with respiratory distress and crying out. Her hematocrit
was 4%.
She was on her way out. She got the transfusion - they called me
about 1/4
of the way through and told me they didn't think she'd make it.
She did.
Since she's been home, each day her energy is improving. I got the
second
injection of TCLI and administered it on Saturday. Everyday she's
looking
better. She's sitting up, walking and drinking independently.
This may
only be the effects of the transfusion, so I am holding off
judgement for
now. I will be getting a CBC this week to see what we're dealing
with. In
the meantime, I am praying, and have her on Ambrotrose (a glycoprotein
supplement thought to help in the fight against felv), vitamin
supplements
and intermittently transfer factor. She hemolyzed (destroyed) many of
the red blood cells after the transfusion as she turned yellow
(jaundice -
secondary to breakdown of hemoglobin) but clinically her energy is
improving
and her alertness returning. I will keep you updated.
I pray that there is hope in this injection. It seems to me that the
science is pretty sound. Most vets aren't aware of this product
and have a
lot of suspicion surrounding any treatment to felv+. It is
reasonable since
their vet school training told them it was a fatal and untreatable
disease.
Most of us have experienced that first hand.
I had to search long and hard to find a vet that could help me, but
if you
call Imulan directly they are happy to talk with you or your vet.
I have
nothing but good experiences with them so far.
We shall see, good luck everyone.
Jenny
On 8/30/09, Alice Flowers <aliceflow...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
After hearing about this product-I called our vet here in
Sacramento and
she agreed to order it for us. I want to try it because we lost
the 4th
kitty this morning-my son drove him to UC Davis emergency early
this morning
because he was struggling to breath and crying out. Out of the 5
kittens in
the litter-Schatzi is the 4th brother to pass in 41/2 months-he
just turned
a year old this month- we even tried a transfusion that Jack had a
reaction
to and was euthanized (over $1500). Buster, the first to die-screamed
out...Oni died in Corey's arms. I still have the sister, Rosie and
another
cat-Murphy, the tuxedo polydactyl that was dumped into the feral
colony that
the litter came from-he was positive also. So why do I want to try
this
product? I have HOPE that it may prolong Rosie and Murphy's lives-
These 6
have been on antibiotics most of their lives-Finally now it's been
a good
month and a half without them, maybe we've turned a corner. We
have upped
them to Interferon 2x a day. When the FeLV switch gets tripped-
they just
crash so fast. If we can postpone it for months or
years.....that's great.
We are down to 2 cats left out of 6-we have cried rivers of tears,
and spent
over 6 grand-and we weren't "cat people" a year ago. How do we
know it will
work? We don't....but if we don't try, no one will know. What I do
know is
that Rosie is due to die soon-being from the same litter, she is
due to
crash with anemia like all her brothers. But I have HOPE,
otherwise I should
just euthanize the last 2 now and call it a day. Rosie and Murphy
are racing
up and down the hallway and up the cat trees right now-they are
healthy
(appearing), loving and happy. They are a year old-I think they
deserve to
live longer. Alice, Rosie and Murphy
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