Hey all. Just waned to ask for some prayers and support. Luke, our baby that's been fighting a "mysterious" illness since August has taken a turn for the worst. He's barely eating now. Last night we almost ran him to the emergency vet. I can tell he is in pain at times the past two days. His quality of life is not good... I am afraid if he doesn't bounce back, we'll have to send him to the bridge. We are so close, Luke is such a unique kitty, my baby boy... We've seen 4 vets, 3 different practices, and still, we don't know what exactly is causing this. He's got everyone stumped. He's allowed to eat ANYTHING he wants, as long as he eats... Tonight we're going to try syringe feeding him some KMR mixed with A/d. He wont even touch chicken or a burger anymore. We're losing him. He w!
as slowly declining, the past two days he's taken a nose dive... I don't want to put him down until I know if we can help him. We ordered more tests today - another CBC and a feline .... - it's a really funky test that will look for leukemia, FIV, and give us a FIP tither. Our vet is thinking a form of lymphoma and FIP, but we just don't know. He should have a fever for FIP, but that's not there... So far he's had a negative ELISA test, and we're doing this funky test instead of an IFA - ifa only comes up positive if it's in the bone marrow (I heard this straight from the lab) and we thought this would be a better route. Just grabbed the receipt - we're running a CBC, Blood Chemistry, and a Feline Serology. Sigh. It wasn't cheap, but I'd give anything for my baby to be okay. I don't want to see him suffer. Luke is a fighter. But he's losing his fight... He doesn't have much left in him... I don't k!
now what else to try... He went from prednisone to Dex (another steriod) last week. We're keeping him on the dex tonight until we get the lab work back. I just want to hold him forever....
Genie and the crew
