Kristen your e-mail made my heart ache and smile at the same time,ache for the pain we all go through and smile cause YES they are the BEST kitties.We are so blessed to have had a chance to love these wonderful babies. I myself have loved MANY. Hugs to you and I am so sorry for your losses. Sherry Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: Kristen Stathis <kristenstat...@gmail.com> Sender: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 22:46:18 To: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> Reply-To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: [Felvtalk] remembering my babies! Hi! Just wanted to thank everyone who posts on this list. . . I've kept a low profile for a year while I learned more than I ever wanted to know about this awful virus. I adopted my first animals, Glinda and Georgie (also a girl), a little over two years ago. A year in, Glinda got sick. Her HCT was at 9!!!! And I quickly learned all about FeLV. Despite all of my efforts, she died seven weeks later. I had been hand-feeding her multiple times a day, and giving SubQ fluids daily to try and break her awful fever (105!). LTCI, interferon and two blood transfusions as well. As my cats had never left my tiny apartment and had never been in contact with any other animals, it was pretty clear that their negative test at the (best!) shelter was a false negative. I'm so grateful that they slipped through the cracks, though! Such sweet dispositions-- I was lucky to know them. A few weeks ago, Georgie became sick too (HCT down to 19.5) and had also developed lymphoma. We treated her w/ Interferon (which she had been on a year), prednisone, LTCI, and I was helping her eat multiple times a day. She went downhill quickly in the end. Despite all we try and do to slow down this awful virus, it's just that, awful. I've been told that the sweetest kitties get the worst diseases. Perhaps it is because of the disease that all of our animals are so very special. I have loved (and will continue to love) reading so many amazing stories on this list-serve. This community is phenomenal, and I'm glad to have found it. Perhaps my first first animals didn't live as long as I would have hoped, but I know that they had the best lives they could have possibly had with me, and I'm so grateful for every second I got to spend with them! _______________________________________________ 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
