I can understand your mom's reluctance to have Callie retested, but I'd rather know one way or the other. However, I have had extensive experience with FelV pos. cats and I have never seen diarrhea as a symptom of the virus.
Lorrie On 12-15, Lance wrote: > The bite seems to be about the same as it was yesterday, though maybe a > little less red where the actual teeth penetration occurred. Fortunately, > no pink lines are other odd marks have showed up near the wound. I didn?t > go to the clinic, since things look like they?re doing well. My health has > been a little funky for the last six months, but I feel like my immune > system is in reasonably good shape. > > Anyway, some of you may remember that my FeLV+ (Ember) probably bit an > FeLV- (Callie) who hasn?t been vaccinated since her kitten days seven > years ago. Callie, who was almost definitely FeLV- before this encounter, > tested negative at 37 days post-exposure, but she wasn?t retested at the > usual 90 day mark. She?s my mom?s cat, and my mom is reluctant to test. I > think she just doesn?t want to know. While I understand that, the anxiety > from not knowing occasionally really gets to me, and there are things we > could do for Callie to prolong her life, despite what my parents seem to > think. > > Callie has had bouts of diarrhea since the encounter. I don?t know if she > had anything like this before it, as I didn?t really pay close attention > to that aspect of her life. She had frequent runny poops in June and July > (around the time of the negative FeLV test), then the frequency went down, > **as far as I know and have been told**. > > Since around August, the runny poops hit daily for one to three days every > three to four weeks. Again, this is from what I can gather. Earlier today, > Callie had a normal poop, but in the same bowel movement, there was some > watery stool on top of the normal stuff. If she?s positive, what could > this be, other than lymphoma? If she ISN?T positive, then what might this > be? Very odd that it happens every few weeks. > > Thanks, > > Lance _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org