Well I'm home from the vet and Buddie is still there. Her x-ray showed her lungs to be clear, no cancer spread there that we can tell. It does however show her liver is a bit more enlarged and her spleen also seems to be enlarged a bit. Her bloodwork is really bad, her white count jumped from 35,000 to 81,000 very high so the infection is raging. She is now anemic at 18, she was 28 last Friday (all of these numbers are comparing now to last Friday), her potassium is lower hence the weakness. My vet feels her open mouth breathing may be pain related, because the liver sits right under the diaphragm and it may be painful for her to breathe since her liver is enlarged. She is going to get a feeding tube alittle after 1 PM, she is very weak so she needs all the prayers you can muster at that time to get through the anesthetizing, my vet is only going to give her the minimal needed and wake her up immediately after.
She did have a concern that the cancer is now in the spleen and possibly in her bone marrow because of her anemia, but she did a slide to look for lymphocytes and said it is inconclusive, she is sending to to the pathologist to look at. If she has any epogen she is going to give her some to help her compromised bone marrow, but she said it does look like her red blood cells are still producing because she saw some cells with nucleuses (sp?). The infection is getting the better of her for now, but hopefully once we get some food into her she will have a fighting chance and I know my Buddie is a fighter. We just need the strength to get through putting the tube in. Once she is awake enough from the procedure a tech will bring her home to me (I live 3 minutes away by car). We have a hellofva battle to fight but we're up for it!!! PS. Thank you everyone for the support and prayers and I hope all of your furkids are doing OK. For those on the wonderful supportive lists I belong to, I know there have been a few losses in the last couple of days and my heart goes out to those parents who have lost a furchild. Please know they are still with you just in a different way. Take care and my deepest sympathies to you all for your losses. Heaven has several new special angels this week. -- Belinda Happiness is being owned by cats ... Be-Mi-Kitties ... http://www.bemikitties.com Post Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens http://adopt.bemikitties.com FeLV Candle Light Service http://www.bemikitties.com/cls Vote For Us http://www.bemikitties.com/toplist/cgi-bin/topsites.cgi?id=1 ----------- Web Design Porfolio http://www.bemikitties.com/bmksamples.htm#portfolio
