Thank you Gloria for sharing, I wish I would have know you guys a week ago, you guys are great and very supportive.
Thank you all
Cherie
"Gloria B. Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Gloria B. Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Cherie, just fyi - my beloved Nicky died almost exactly a year
ago, sigh, not FELV, but almost 19 years of age. His mouth began
bleeding. The vet(s) said he had cancer in his mouth/jaw - no
treatment given. I use homeopathics, and gave him arnica (liquid
usually) to stop the bleeding, and it worked great.
Guess one reason I'm telling this - is FELV can eventually lead to
various cancerous conditions, some (like lymphoma) more common than
others. One possibility is that your Snowball could have had cancer
in his mouth,throat, nose area.
Your vet does sounds really fine. I'm so very sorry for your loss.
Gloria
Julie,
I have tried to come to terms with the loss, but I am not sure if I
can say for sure it was FeLV, I have looked and not found any similar
cases to mine, I think that is odd.
Julie John! son <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
Hi Cherie,
I'm so sorry about Snowball; how terrible for you. How old was Snowball?
FeLV+ or not, I know of a few kittens who have died suddenly and
unexpectedly over the last year. Kittens have fragile immune systems
and they look like such little dynamos that it's easy to think of
them as indestructible, but the sad truth is that they are very
susceptible to any number of illnesses; that's why cats (like other
animals) overproduce, because the likelihood of all the babies
surviving is not good.
Your vet sounds excellent and I'm sure is doing a great job, but it's
also just possible that this kitten had something genetically wrong,
had an undiagnosed physical problem, etc. His might have passed on
in the same way even if he were FeLV-.
Again, I'm sorry you needed to find us and terribly sorry for your
loss of Snowball.
Julie
Cherie A Gabbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
Hi there,
I have just joined you group from a posting off of Be-Mi
Kitties...Cat Chat, and I was curious about something. I had (6)
furrbabies and on Jan 4th, 2005 I lost a kitten, Snowball, it was so
unfair and fast but I am having a hard time accepting what the vet
told me.
Here is my story on Jan 2nd my son nd I came home from the store, and
Snowball had a little blood coming from his mouth, I was concerned so
I called my vet and she said, maybe a tooth do not worry she will
come out on the 3rd at noon....OK no problem but, throughout Sunday
his bleeding was slowly getting worse so I called the vet again, and
she said it might be a needle or X-mas hook in his throat I should
feel around and check, I did nothing, so know she would be out first
hing instead of noon. In the middle of the night Sunday Snowball was
sleeping with me (as usual) and I woke up to find blood dripping fro! m
his jowels. I do need to add he was eating, drinking and playing with
the others the whole time, no physical sign of sickness, excepting
sleeping a little more. Once again the vet was called and she came
right away, he now had purple spots in his ears, a sign that he was
not clotting and bleeding elsewhere. Still no idea of what we were
dealing! ! ! with she took him iwth her and pumped him with Vitamin K
to attempt to stop the bleeding while running coagulation tests. All
the test came back fine, she then called and said she ran a Fe-luk
test and his platelets came back very low and so did his white blood
cell count, so he had the virus. Monday 7:30pm I was called by my vet
and she said the bleeding had stopped (we thought from the Vitamin K)
but she was going to bring him back to me on Tuesday Jan 4, 2005 I
would just have to give him Vitamin K tablets and Interferon, I was
upset but fine with it, I just wanted my baby back,! she said it
attacked his bone marrow and that is why he was bleeding so much.
Then on Tuesday my vet called first thing and said he past in the
night, I was devastated, still am. I have not even told my son yet,
he still thinks Snowball is in the hospital with the vet...I am not
strong enough yet.
That is my story...my concern is I had never heard on FeLV taking a
kitty life that fast and fierce....does anyone have any suggestions?
By the way there is one other cat that has FeLV now and she is
recieving Interferon every other week...all others and fine.
Thank you
Cherie
