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

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