Thinking of you and Brock. Katherine On Apr 27, 2016 11:55 PM, <dlg...@windstream.net> wrote:
> It seems you are on the right track and keeping his feedings small will > help also. I know my Harley who is not sick, just gulps down too much at > one time and then up chucks has to get small amounts to prevent that. I > also have a pot of lemon grass for the cats to munch on when their stomachs > are upset. With all he has going on, he has a lot on his plate to deal > with and other than the right medications, the greatest gift you can give > him i love. mWill keep both of yu in my prayers. > > ---- Rachel Dagner <rdag...@novahrc.com> wrote: > > My cat Tucker was throwing up his food. We went to the vet and got an > X-ray which showed a mass in his chest. I brought him home with steroids > but he still couldn't keep food down probably the mass was restricting the > food from passing through since he was just regurgitating it right back up. > Then he totally quit wanting to eat. Went to the vet and got high calorie > emergency food and a syringe , watched a video on how to do it on YouTube. > I was syringe feeding him for several days, I was doing some research and > saw a lot of great reviews on Life Gold I had it sent over night from > Amazon. I got it yesterday and gave him his two doses. Today he is eating > on his own and eating quite a bit of the emergency food and even his dry > food that I crunched up small. No regurgitation after all day of eating. I > am only giving him a small amount each hour of so as not to upset his > stomach, or overwhelm him. Maybe you can try syringe feeding and/or the > liquid gold. I hope it is not lympho > ma > > , I cried for three days straight after the X-ray. I am getting > vitality science cat cancer kit, I am not going to put him through chemo. I > hope to extend his time and his quality of life. He is also more perky and > acting like himself again after just one day on Life Gold. I pray it > continues! > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Marsha <mar...@lynxe.com> wrote: > > > > > > My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn. He has been doing > really great, and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year > anniversary of being diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and > Congestive Heart Failure. Only 20% of cats with that diagnosis make it to > the one year mark. Brock is on 5 heart meds and 2 supplements, and has > been doing great. About 2 weeks ago, his appetite seemed to be a little > off. Sometimes he would eat all his food, sometimes not. He occasionally > catches a mouse that gets into the garage, so I wondered if he was full > when I brought his dinner. This past Saturday, he was really fussy about > taking his pills. He has always been really good about eating his pill > pockets, no hassle for me, no dropping them into his mouth. Now he is > balking at taking them even after I dip them in wet food (and they are > already in pill pockets). I coax and coax, and have had to manually pill > him a few times. He will eat 4 and leave 1, then I have t > o > > give that one manually. Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1. Now he > wants baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later. He gets his > supplements mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to > eat his food to get it. > > > > > > He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam. The vet > confirmed the enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there were > enlarged nodes in the back leg area also. Brock's PCV is only 18%, meaning > he is anemic. It is non-regenerative. A needle aspiration was done on a > lymph node, and the cytology should be back tomorrow. My biggest fear is > lymphoma, and it's going to tear through like a wildfire. > > > > > > Marsha > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org >
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