BLESS YOU BEYOND THE BEYOND.
You have been on my heart continually since reading your story. I honestly believe there are people within your community who will write the checks for your beloveds and you. quietly meganskye m > Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:45:00 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Felvtalk] Just checking in...Murphy and Rosie > > I've been off boards for a bit-This whole FeLV thing is so sad-reading all > the new people's posts desperately seeking information and hope (like me a > year and a half ago). Then reading as our sweet little babies lose their > battle with this dreaded disease-Like the 4 sibling brothers I had. We have > been lucky so far with Murphy and Rosie since starting the Imulan treatments > last September (before they had any symptoms). Their bloodwork has been > pretty good-both have HCT in the 35-39 range. We got behind in the blood > testing and have an appt today because Murphy has developed a sneeze that > appears to be allergies, but I cannot take a chance-so we will have them both > checked and I may get brave and order another FeLV test-This is so hard > financially-in a year and a half-we had the 6 kitties to the vets on numerous > occasions-tried one transfusion that didn't help ($1500 for that alone) we > are damned if we do and damned if we don't-it rips your heart out-we > tried to treat this disease and have spent our savings - got behind and are > fighting foreclosure...(over 7500 in vet bills in the past 1 1/2 yrs on the 6 > kitties-and that's not the old dogs or horses) it's a disease of the heart-we > were so heartbroken and desperate to save this feral litter-we loved them so > much....and we weren't even "cat people" until we rescued them. Their sweet > little faces and kitten antics...how could you resist?? Anyway-the last 2 > appear to be well so far and we were at 8 weeks apart with the > injections-have one dose each left and I've postponed giving it to stretch > the dollars. So we are headed to our vet for check ups and blood work today. > I just want to say "bless you" to all of you-this is a battle not won too > often, but your support and kind words have helped so many of us! > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1 _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
