Oh Dawn I am so sorry about your little Buddy Cat (I actually call Spanky little Buddy!) Your poor baby was too young to go through all of that - I'll never understand the rhyme or reason for things like this to happen. It sounds like your little Buddy was so lucky to have found you. I am so sorry about your vet manhandling him. My vet didn't even want to tap Spanky and suggested I go to the ER to have them do it where they do it all the time so we did that earlier this week. I hope in time you will heal when you think of Buddy even though I know how difficult and painful it has to be to remember it all. Thank you for sharing your story with us.
Message: 3 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:48:12 -0500 From: "Dawn Bartholomew" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <aa7aad37234f406da7ebdb929ff0e...@dawnpc> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Stacy, I joined this group several months ago, and as sad as this is, all the FeLV+ with lymphoma die in a short period of time. My little Buddy Cat was just over a year old when he died 9/23/10. He was a stray we got when he was 6 weeks old 9/09 and was very sickly. He recouped real quick. At this time I knew nothing of FeLV or lymphoma. 12/09 he was neutered and did great. In June 2010 he had 2 large lymph nodes and was diagnosed with FeLV. July, August September, we did absolutely everything not even weighing out the financial cost. We truly loved this kitty and he was very special. We tried LCTI, interferon, homeopathic, lasix, rutin, vitamins and chemo. He had a will to live and didn't want to die. His chest filled up with fluid several times and I had him tapped. The last time I took him to be tapped the vet killed him, she manhandled him. The chemo, pred and LCTI did help, but even with chemo it only extends the life for a short time. Felv + with lymphoma is a double whammy. I think one without the other is treatable and they can live much longer. I am sorry to seems so cold about this, my heart is still very broken 2 1/2 months later. We would have spent/did anyhting to save our Buddy Cat. Dawn _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
