Pam - you and Kit went thru so much, but he is now purring with and kneading
all his new friends at the Bridge!
sue c.
>From: "Pamela D. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:54:31 -0700
>
>We got Kit's necropsy results back. The diagnosis was thymic lymphoma. He
>had a large mass in the chest area, which confirmed what my vet Robert
>thought all along, even though it could not be seen on any of the X-rays.
>Milky white fluid filled the thoracic cavity, compressing the lungs
>dorsally. Cancerous cells had also begun to invade peri-aortic and
>peribronchial tissue. There was nothing to suggest FIP.
>
>Bloodwork Friday before I lost him showed his kidneys had begun to go
>downhill, although there were no apparent symptoms of this - his water
>intake appeared normal. He was otherwise in good health for a feleuk
>kitty, no anemia, and it would seem that that helped him to keep on going
>as long as he did despite the lymphoma that had probably been growing since
>last summer. That was when he first cried out and collapsed all floppy one
>day when I picked him up - I thought he was dying then, but he recovered
>before we even got him to the vet, and nothing specific could be found
>wrong at the time.
>
>He did this once or twice more later - I think somehow the position I got
>him into in picking him up caused pressure from the tumor to hurt him
>and/or maybe wind him, so of course I was always careful after that about
>picking him up, although we were never really sure whether he just didn't
>like being picked up or whether something was wrong, since no masses could
>be felt and symptoms (breathing problems) didn't manifest till later.
>
>I thought this chronology might help someone else with decisions or with
>trying to figure out what's going on when and if the time comes.
>
>You may also want to know that even after necropsy you can still get your
>kitty back for burial or cremation. Kit has been cremated and I will get
>his cremains back today.
>
>Poor little Kit. I think about him purring and kneading the air as I
>stroked and tickled his paws and rump to comfort him - it took all the time
>I had him to find out he loved this, as because he didn't like to be
>handled a lot we usually only got to pet his head or back.
>
>
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