[Felvtalk] Thanks, and a personal query (Aries/Jennifer R. in PA? (was Re: Anyone on LiveJournal's catlovers group?
Hi again-- One of the wonderful members here -- Gloria -- signed on to Facebook and gave the poster some good info on dealing with a FELV+ kitty. Thank you so much! I hope the person fostering the kitty can find a good place for it. I have another question. Three years ago, I placed a FELV+ kitty, Aries, in a home/haven in Pennsylvania owned by a Jennifer R. I tried to email her yesterday, but her email abounced. Jennifer? Are you out there? Please email me offlist if you are. Thanks again for everything, Felvtalkers! Your work is important, and very very appreciated. Regards, Jean *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^** Please note: For some bizarre reason, Yahoo has been depositing a lot of my legitimate email into my BULK folder, and putting spam in my inbox. I think they're tweaking their spam settings, but it's causing problems with mail delivery. If you do not hear back from me in a timely manner and you are expecting a response, please do not think I'm ignoring you. It's likely I have not received your message. If you have my telephone number, please call it. You can also email again -- that works sometimes. Otherwise, I check the bulk folder more frequently than I did, and I hopefully will find your message. ___ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
Re: [Felvtalk] Anyone on LiveJournal's catlovers group?
I'm so sorry folks! I didn't realize that the OP had locked the post. All you have to do is join the catlovers group, just like any other community. Best, Jean *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^** Please note: For some bizarre reason, Yahoo has been depositing a lot of my legitimate email into my BULK folder, and putting spam in my inbox. I think they're tweaking their spam settings, but it's causing problems with mail delivery. If you do not hear back from me in a timely manner and you are expecting a response, please do not think I'm ignoring you. It's likely I have not received your message. If you have my telephone number, please call it. You can also email again -- that works sometimes. Otherwise, I check the bulk folder more frequently than I did, and I hopefully will find your message. --- On Mon, 6/1/09, souther...@aol.com souther...@aol.com wrote: From: souther...@aol.com souther...@aol.com Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Anyone on LiveJournal's catlovers group? To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 6:10 PM I had the same problem. I'm registered but I couldn't get on that site. Sidney ** An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377040x1201454360/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072hmpgID=62; bcd=JuneExcfooterNO62) ___ 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
Wallace with the angels now
Greetings, folks. I'd like to thank everybody for the support and suggestions through my Wallace's brief-but-terminal illness. I'm sorry to report that he left this world on July 4 at 6:40PM, in my arms. My LJ post is here: http://lyonessnyc.livejournal.com/68839.html and a portrait I'd taken last year is here: http://lyonessnyc.livejournal.com/69444.html I love digital photography, and it's made great portraits of my kitties possible. If you try, make sure you have a macro function (it's usually the little flower on a button) so you get their little faces in focus. This is a wonderful group of people, and I'm grateful for all the help and support I got. I joined because I was trying to help a FeLeuk cat (not mine) find a home, and one of you wonderful people took Aries in and from all reports, he's happy and healthy. I salute the good work you all do, caring for these kitties. Again, thanks. -Jean Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food Drink QA. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545367
Wallace Request: Liver shake recipe?
Greetings, folks-- In all the *wonderful* advice and support I've gotten here, there have been many mentions of a liver shake recipe. Does someone have it handy? I really appreciate it. We've been having a much better day today. Details on my LJ: I'll save the list's bandwidth and just post a link for the interested. :) http://lyonessnyc.livejournal.com/#58245 Thanks so much -- you all are made of awesome. :) Best, Jean Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7
Re: Wallace not eating or drinking either (was Re: Caroline still not eating or drinking)
Thanks, everybody who responded, for all the great information and advice. Wallace is having his ultrasound today, and probably the biopsy as well. I've joined that yahoogroups list, but haven't made my initial post as I don't have a definitive diagnosis yet. I should have that in the next day or two. The week has been up and down with Wallace. The subcu fluids administration has gone pretty well, but syringe feeding really seems to tick him off. The past two days, he's vomited a great deal, and my vet told me yesterday to give him 5mp of Pepcid (famotidine). I wasn't able to get it until last night, so I don't know how well it worked. He wasn't allowed to eat anything after midnight because he's having the sonogram today. I locked him in the bathroom last night so he wouldn't get at the other kitties' food and water. He greeted me, and sat at my feet and purred at me. I was able to have some real quality cuddle time with him, and felt much better about going through with this diagnosis and treatment. I know it's going to be hard on all of us, but I hope and pray we'll have good outcome. Thank you again. -Jean (and Wallace) Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC
Thanks for info (was Re: Wallace not eating or drinking either
Hi folks-- Just got home from the vet a little while ago. Wallace was such a good boy for both vets that he didn't need to be sedated for his sonogram or biopsy. That's my good boy. [sniffle] They really love Wallace at my vet hospital -- he was there for a week six years ago for FUS, and they all know what a sweetie he is. They have his picture (with Boo and William) in the waiting room, too. (If you'd like to see it, it's here: http://www.ratemykitten.com/pictures/392/000131996/ ) We won't know what the cancer is until the cytology report comes in, Saturday or Tuesday. BEST case at this point is lymphoma. Right now, both vets (my vet and the sonography specialist vet) think that he has adenocarcinoma in his small intestine, invading into the mesentery. His stomach wall and other sections of the small bowel are also thickening. This is *bad*. Of the two types of tumor, this *is* the operable one, but it's big -- 5cm -- and it's invaded beyond the small intestine. There's a partial blockage of the intestine's lumen, too, which is causing real concern and is probably why he stopped eating. I'm going to go snuggle my kitty and cry now. Thanks so much to everybody, esp. those who gave me the lymphoma information. Looks like it might be a moot point now -- adenocarcinoma is *bad*. Feels weird to be praying that it might be lymphoma -- as I said, the cytology report won't be in for a few days. Advice on enticing a sick kitty to eat is appreciated, but as he doesn't have FeLeuk/FIV, he's off topic. Thank you, though -- everybody here is so generous of spirit, and helpful. -Jean Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather
Re: Introduction
That's wonderful that you took Duncan in! As everybody here can tell you, you can have many happy asymptomatic years with your FeLeuk kitty, and I do wish you the best. Sincerely, Jean Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545433
Wallace not eating or drinking either (was Re: Caroline still not eating or drinking)
Hi folks -- long-time lurker here... I'm having the same problem with my Wallace. He's 10 in July, half-Maine Coon tiger-tuxedo tabby, used to be 20 pounds. Now he's starved himself down to 9 pounds, and up until last Thursday, the vet was mystified. All his bloodwork is normal. (He's not one of my FeLeuk rescues, so I guess he's a bit OT, sorry...) Three weeks ago, he seemed to be sick. He had an eye infection, and wasn't eating. He looked like he'd lost a lot of weight -- he'd looked mostly normal up until recently, but there's been so much family stuff going on, I didn't think too much about it until the eye infection and when he got picky about his food. I took him in to get bloodwork, thinking that it would be hyperthyroid (which has been the case with three of our family cats in different households). Nope -- everything in the bloodwork was normal, except for his dehydration. Huh. He did have an elevated temperature, so they gave me antibiotics, eye medication, and gave him 150ml of Ringer's solution subq for the dehydration. A few days later, a family emergency came up and I had to go stay with my grandparents for the better part of a week. I brought Wallace with me, and he perked up a great deal. He was eating (although no where near his usual amount), but he was only licking the gravy off the wet food, not eating the chunks. He'd eat some kibble, too, but didn't even get through a half-cup during the five days we were there. Still, he seemed strong and even jumped up to sleep on the bed and sat in the window. After the family crisis passed, we came home to our apartment and the other four cats. Wallace gets along with all of them, pretty much. One of them is his twin brother, Bruce (who is still over 20 pounds of furry purring goodness). I have one rescue, Oliver, who has never really fit in and plays dominance games from time to time, so I thought Wallace's anorexia might be a behavioral problem, reacting to yet another of Oliver's power plays. This theory got more credence when Wallace seemed to droop when we got home -- I think he'd liked being an only cat for five days. :-/ About a week after that, he'd stopped eating again, and I took him back to the vet. This was last Friday, June 8. This time, Wallace did not have a temperature, and his eye infection was gone, but he was dehydrated again. Doc's scale said he'd gone up to 12 pounds, but I don't think it's right. When I weigh him at home (holding him while I weigh myself, then weighing myself and getting the difference), he's only 9.5 or 10 pounds. When Doc did the physical exam, he palpated a mass in his abdomen that he did not feel two weeks prior. Wallace has a bad habit of chewing on plastic, so I was thinking that perhaps he'd gotten himself an obstruction, but the doc didn't think so. He's thinking lymphoma, and we're getting an ultrasound and biopsy this week. I'm doing subcu fluids at home (100-150ml, depending on how much it seems like he needs), and have been syringe feeding. Doc also gave an Rx for Periactin to stimulate appetite, and it seems to have worked a bit. Sometimes Wallace's stomach can't take the periactin, though, and he vomits it up. The past two days, he vomited a *lot*, mostly bile and fluid. But last night, I didn't wake to the unmistakable sound of kitty yakking, so I think this is good. Wallace is using his litterbox, but he's started urinating frequently, with small volume. I'm really scared for his kidneys at this point -- even if he wasn't in kidney failure before, this anorexia and dehydration will throw him into failure. Has anybody had experience with a mystery anorexia, and then lymphoma? I thought lymphoma was unusual in FeLeuk negative cats. :-/ I think I need to have him tested for FeLeuk again -- he hasn't been tested since kittenhood, but he's a strictly indoor cat and hasn't been exposed (that I know of) to a FeLeuk positive cat. I guess I'm asking for prayers and good thoughts for Wallace, too. He's been my baby since he was three weeks old, and I had to bottlefeed him. I've put his whole story on my blog, here: http://lyonessnyc.livejournal.com/52532.html I've had some success in syringe feeding him A/D, and last night I bought a can of KMR feline milk replacer and mixed some of that in with the A/D. I actually got a couple of tablespoons into him, and he slept on the bed most of the night (not under it). I'm scared for my baby. Thanks for listening. -Jean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) TV dinner still cooling? Check out Tonight's Picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/
Re: Wallace not eating or drinking either (was Re: Caroline still not eating or drinking)
--- Pam Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean, I have had 2 kitties with lymphoma neither of them had FeLV. I think an ultrasound done by an expereienced ultrasonagrapher is definitely in order. Yes, that's the next step. I'm sitting here at home waiting for the vet to call me back to let me know if he's confirmed the sonographer appointment. Doc says next after that is biopsy. You've gone through this -- what happens next? Thank you so much for responding! -Jean, off to syringe-feed Wallace more A/D and KMR Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121
Re: OT: Question about Yahoo photos
--- wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, I went into Yahoo photos for the first time, and saw all these photos, some from 4 years ago, that have been sent to me or that I have sent out. I'd like to delete some of them, but there is no delete option. How do you delete them? Also, can you make some public, yet still keep others private? I have family photos in there that I don't want public. Thanks for your help! I'm not completely sure about deleting message attachments (which is what you're describing) without deleting the messages themselves, but I'm fairly sure they're *not* visible to anybody but you unless you give permission individually. The help section should show you exactly how to make pictures public or keep them private. If there's a picture of the Earth next to a pic, it's public. If there's a person, it's private, is my understanding. Without having Yahoophotos open in front of me, that's the best I can do at the moment. :) Best, Jean Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
Re: OT: My visit to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
--- wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope I didn't jump around too much. I wanted to cover everything, but I know I didn't. If anyone wants to ask more questions, feel free. We should plan a group trip there one day. It sounds incredibly cool. If I lived out west, I know I'd love to go too. I have lots of photos if any of you would like to see them. Does anyone know how many megabytes I can send out via yahoo email? You can simply put together a photo album in your account's photo section. Go to the main Yahoo page, look for Photos, and go from there. I have several photo albums, both public and private, on different Yahoo accounts. You do need to make sure you set the permissions to Public so we can all see the pictures. :) Good luck, and congrats on such an interesting trip! -Jean Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL
