Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

[Rachel Dagner]

Thank you for the suggestion on the Metoclopromide, I will ask my vet
about it next time we go in, or if his symptoms come back before that, he
is on a 2 week steroid shot right now. He received it Monday, after the
short acting one he got last Friday.

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Amani Oakley
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:35 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

Rachel, for what it's worth, I agree with Margo. The odds are that the
steroids kicked in because they will (a) reduce the inflammation and (b)
make him feel better (peppier) and thus he will be more interested in
eating. Another suggestion is to get him on metoclopromide which helps
increase peristaltic action, empty the stomach and move the food along the
intestinal tract.

Amani

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Rachel Dagner
Sent: April-27-16 10:36 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

My cat Tucker was throwing up his food. We went to the vet and got an
X-ray which showed a mass in his chest. I brought him home with steroids
but he still couldn't keep food down probably the mass was restricting the
food from passing through since he was just regurgitating it right back
up. Then he totally quit wanting to eat. Went to the vet and got high
calorie emergency food and a syringe , watched a video on how to do it on
YouTube. I was syringe feeding him for several days, I was doing some
research and saw a lot of great reviews on Life Gold I had it sent over
night from Amazon. I got it yesterday and gave him his two doses. Today he
is eating on his own and eating quite a bit of the emergency food and even
his dry food that I crunched up small. No regurgitation after all day of
eating. I am only giving him a small amount each hour of so as not to
upset his stomach, or overwhelm him. Maybe you can try syringe feeding
and/or the liquid gold. I hope it is not lymphoma
   , I cried for three days straight after the X-ray. I am getting
vitality science cat cancer kit, I am not going to put him through chemo.
I hope to extend his time and his quality of life. He is also more perky
and acting like himself again after just one day on Life Gold. I pray it
continues!

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> On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Marsha <mar...@lynxe.com> wrote:
>
> My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn.  He has been doing
> really great, and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year
> anniversary of being diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and
> Congestive Heart Failure.  Only 20% of cats with that diagnosis make
> it to the one year mark.  Brock is on 5 heart meds and 2 supplements,
> and has been doing great.  About 2 weeks ago, his appetite seemed to
> be a little off.  Sometimes he would eat all his food, sometimes not.
> He occasionally catches a mouse that gets into the garage, so I
> wondered if he was full when I brought his dinner. This past Saturday,
> he was really fussy about taking his pills.  He has always been really
> good about eating his pill pockets, no hassle for me, no dropping them
> into his mouth.  Now he is balking at taking them even after I dip
> them in wet food (and they are already in pill pockets).  I coax and
> coax, and have had to manually pill him a few times.  He will eat 4
> and leave 1, then I have to
 give that one manually.  Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1.  Now he
wants baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later.  He gets his
supplements mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to
eat his food to get it.
>
> He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam.  The vet
confirmed the enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there were
enlarged nodes in the back leg area also.  Brock's PCV is only 18%,
meaning he is anemic.  It is non-regenerative.  A needle aspiration was
done on a lymph node, and the cytology should be back tomorrow.  My
biggest fear is lymphoma, and it's going to tear through like a wildfire.
>
> Marsha
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Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

[Amani Oakley]

Sorry Marsha. I meant to say that the original lab tests came back on Tigger as 
NON-regenerative at first. Sorry for the confusion.

Amani

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Sent: April-28-16 2:41 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

Marsha

When Ardy started Tigger on the Winstrol, his haematocrit was 6, and as she 
said in her post, it was certainly looking extremely grim at such critically 
low numbers. The blood panel also came back with a comment from the pathologist 
that the anemia was regenerative. He has been on the Winstrol for about a month 
now, and his haematocrit was 12 this past Friday. You probably know that PCV 
and haematocrit are similar tests which tell you pretty much the same thing 
about the number of red cells in a sample. Tigger's most recent results also 
showed a significant surge in nucleated red blood cells and reticulocytes , 
which are the precursor immature red cells which have not yet matured into 
their final form of a non-nucleated red cell. However, their presence in fact 
shows that the anemia is no longer non-regenerative because Tigger's bone 
marrow has started to produce red cells again. The bone marrow is pushing them 
out early because of the body's depleted red cell counts and that
  is why the immature forms are being seen in the circulating blood.

Amani

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Sent: April-27-16 9:45 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: [Felvtalk] Brock update

My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn.  He has been doing really great, 
and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year anniversary of being 
diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and Congestive Heart Failure.  Only 
20% of cats with that diagnosis make it to the one year mark.  Brock is on 5 
heart meds and 2 supplements, and has been doing great.  About 2 weeks ago, his 
appetite seemed to be a little off.  
Sometimes he would eat all his food, sometimes not.  He occasionally catches a 
mouse that gets into the garage, so I wondered if he was full when I brought 
his dinner. This past Saturday, he was really fussy about taking his pills.  He 
has always been really good about eating his pill pockets, no hassle for me, no 
dropping them into his mouth.  Now he is balking at taking them even after I 
dip them in wet food (and they are already in pill pockets).  I coax and coax, 
and have had to manually pill him a few times.  He will eat 4 and leave 1, then 
I have to give that one manually.  Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1.  Now he 
wants baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later.  He gets his 
supplements mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to eat 
his food to get it.

He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam.  The vet confirmed the 
enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there were enlarged nodes in 
the back leg area also.  Brock's PCV is only 18%, meaning he is anemic.  It is 
non-regenerative.  A needle aspiration was done on a lymph node, and the 
cytology should be back tomorrow.  My biggest fear is lymphoma, and it's going 
to tear through like a wildfire.

Marsha

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Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

[Amani Oakley]

Marsha

When Ardy started Tigger on the Winstrol, his haematocrit was 6, and as she 
said in her post, it was certainly looking extremely grim at such critically 
low numbers. The blood panel also came back with a comment from the pathologist 
that the anemia was regenerative. He has been on the Winstrol for about a month 
now, and his haematocrit was 12 this past Friday. You probably know that PCV 
and haematocrit are similar tests which tell you pretty much the same thing 
about the number of red cells in a sample. Tigger's most recent results also 
showed a significant surge in nucleated red blood cells and reticulocytes , 
which are the precursor immature red cells which have not yet matured into 
their final form of a non-nucleated red cell. However, their presence in fact 
shows that the anemia is no longer non-regenerative because Tigger's bone 
marrow has started to produce red cells again. The bone marrow is pushing them 
out early because of the body's depleted red cell counts and that
  is why the immature forms are being seen in the circulating blood.

Amani

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Sent: April-27-16 9:45 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: [Felvtalk] Brock update

My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn.  He has been doing really great, 
and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year anniversary of being 
diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and Congestive Heart Failure.  Only 
20% of cats with that diagnosis make it to the one year mark.  Brock is on 5 
heart meds and 2 supplements, and has been doing great.  About 2 weeks ago, his 
appetite seemed to be a little off.  
Sometimes he would eat all his food, sometimes not.  He occasionally catches a 
mouse that gets into the garage, so I wondered if he was full when I brought 
his dinner. This past Saturday, he was really fussy about taking his pills.  He 
has always been really good about eating his pill pockets, no hassle for me, no 
dropping them into his mouth.  Now he is balking at taking them even after I 
dip them in wet food (and they are already in pill pockets).  I coax and coax, 
and have had to manually pill him a few times.  He will eat 4 and leave 1, then 
I have to give that one manually.  Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1.  Now he 
wants baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later.  He gets his 
supplements mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to eat 
his food to get it.

He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam.  The vet confirmed the 
enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there were enlarged nodes in 
the back leg area also.  Brock's PCV is only 18%, meaning he is anemic.  It is 
non-regenerative.  A needle aspiration was done on a lymph node, and the 
cytology should be back tomorrow.  My biggest fear is lymphoma, and it's going 
to tear through like a wildfire.

Marsha

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Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

[Amani Oakley]

Rachel, for what it's worth, I agree with Margo. The odds are that the steroids 
kicked in because they will (a) reduce the inflammation and (b) make him feel 
better (peppier) and thus he will be more interested in eating. Another 
suggestion is to get him on metoclopromide which helps increase peristaltic 
action, empty the stomach and move the food along the intestinal tract. 

Amani

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Dagner
Sent: April-27-16 10:36 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

My cat Tucker was throwing up his food. We went to the vet and got an X-ray 
which showed a mass in his chest. I brought him home with steroids but he still 
couldn't keep food down probably the mass was restricting the  food from 
passing through since he was just regurgitating it right back up. Then he 
totally quit wanting to eat. Went to the vet and got high calorie emergency 
food and a syringe , watched a video on how to do it on YouTube. I was syringe 
feeding him for several days, I was doing some research and saw a lot of great 
reviews on Life Gold I had it sent over night from Amazon. I got it yesterday 
and gave him his two doses. Today he is eating on his own and eating quite a 
bit of the emergency food and even his dry food that I crunched up small. No 
regurgitation after all day of eating. I am only giving him a small amount each 
hour of so as not to upset his stomach, or overwhelm him. Maybe you can try 
syringe feeding and/or the liquid gold. I hope it is not lymphoma
   , I cried for three days straight after the X-ray. I am getting vitality 
science cat cancer kit, I am not going to put him through chemo. I hope to 
extend his time and his quality of life. He is also more perky and acting like 
himself again after just one day on Life Gold. I pray it continues! 

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> On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Marsha <mar...@lynxe.com> wrote:
> 
> My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn.  He has been doing 
> really great, and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year 
> anniversary of being diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and 
> Congestive Heart Failure.  Only 20% of cats with that diagnosis make 
> it to the one year mark.  Brock is on 5 heart meds and 2 supplements, 
> and has been doing great.  About 2 weeks ago, his appetite seemed to 
> be a little off.  Sometimes he would eat all his food, sometimes not.  
> He occasionally catches a mouse that gets into the garage, so I 
> wondered if he was full when I brought his dinner. This past Saturday, 
> he was really fussy about taking his pills.  He has always been really 
> good about eating his pill pockets, no hassle for me, no dropping them 
> into his mouth.  Now he is balking at taking them even after I dip 
> them in wet food (and they are already in pill pockets).  I coax and 
> coax, and have had to manually pill him a few times.  He will eat 4 
> and leave 1, then I have to
 give that one manually.  Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1.  Now he wants 
baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later.  He gets his supplements 
mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to eat his food to 
get it.
> 
> He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam.  The vet confirmed 
> the enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there were enlarged 
> nodes in the back leg area also.  Brock's PCV is only 18%, meaning he is 
> anemic.  It is non-regenerative.  A needle aspiration was done on a lymph 
> node, and the cytology should be back tomorrow.  My biggest fear is lymphoma, 
> and it's going to tear through like a wildfire.
> 
> Marsha
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Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

[Rachel Dagner]

Thank you, I appreciate that more than you know, we need all the prayers we
can get.

Marsha please go online and read the reviews on Life Gold for Cat Cancer on
Amazon and Pet Wellbeing, the latest post is Felv+ owner who has his babies
on it just to prevent cancer. If you get it on Pet Wellbeing they offer a 90
day money back guarantee, so you don't really have anything to lose. If it
gets Brock to eat and boosts his immune system, brings down the lymph nodes,
that can only be good. Of course discuss with your vet since he is on other
medications. Have you tried crushing his pills and dissolving them in a
syringe of water? That is what I do for pills. And maybe you could put his
food in a syringe with the potassium and give it that way? I am praying for
you that it is not lymphoma, but if it is you will have someone on here who
is going through it too.

A little on Tucker. He is only two and a half years old, I brought him home
as a stray from work. I have had him one and a half years. In that time we
have gone through urinary infections, emergency catheters, and two PU
surgeries that give him a wider opening so he doesn't block, the first
surgery his opening closed completely, the second surgery left him with a
very small opening, and it takes him a while to get his urine out. He can't
have the surgery again because they have stretched the urethra really far.
So after over $8,000.00, the constant fear of a blockage, and much stress
and pain for both of us the new cancer diagnosis has been a big blow for me.

I am very lucky I can bring him to work with me, he is sitting right in
front my keyboard as I type this purring away, thankfully oblivious to all
of his Mommy's fears, concerns and heartache.

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From: dlg...@windstream.net [mailto:dlg...@windstream.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 11:55 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Cc: Rachel Dagner
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

It seems you are on the right track and keeping his feedings small will help
also.  I know my Harley who is not sick, just gulps down too much at one
time and then up chucks has to get small amounts to prevent that.  I also
have a pot of lemon grass for the cats to munch on when their stomachs are
upset.With all he has going on, he has a lot on his plate to deal with
and other than the right medications, the greatest gift you can give him i
love.  mWill keep both of yu in my prayers.

 Rachel Dagner <rdag...@novahrc.com> wrote:
> My cat Tucker was throwing up his food. We went to the vet and got an
> X-ray which showed a mass in his chest. I brought him home with steroids
> but he still couldn't keep food down probably the mass was restricting the
> food from passing through since he was just regurgitating it right back
> up. Then he totally quit wanting to eat. Went to the vet and got high
> calorie emergency food and a syringe , watched a video on how to do it on
> YouTube. I was syringe feeding him for several days, I was doing some
> research and saw a lot of great reviews on Life Gold I had it sent over
> night from Amazon. I got it yesterday and gave him his two doses. Today he
> is eating on his own and eating quite a bit of the emergency food and even
> his dry food that I crunched up small. No regurgitation after all day of
> eating. I am only giving him a small amount each hour of so as not to
> upset his stomach, or overwhelm him. Maybe you can try syringe feeding
> and/or the liquid gold. I hope it is not lymphoma  , I cried for three
> days straight after the X-ray. I am getting vitality science cat cancer
> kit, I am not going to put him through chemo. I hope to extend his time
> and his quality of life. He is also more perky and acting like himself
> again after just one day on Life Gold. I pray it continues!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Marsha <mar...@lynxe.com> wrote:
> >
> > My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn.  He has been doing
> > really great, and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year
> > anniversary of being diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and
> > Congestive Heart Failure.  Only 20% of cats with that diagnosis make
> > it to the one year mark.  Brock is on 5 heart meds and 2
> > supplements, and has been doing great.  About 2 weeks ago, his
> > appetite seemed to be a little off.  Sometimes he would eat all his
> > food, sometimes not.  He occasionally catches a mouse that gets into
> > the garage, so I wondered if he was full when I brought his dinner.
> > This past Saturday, he was really fussy about taking his pills.  He
> > has always been really good about eating his pill pockets, no hassle
> > for me, no dropping them into his mouth.  Now he is balking at
> > taking them even after I dip them in wet food (and they are already
> > in

Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

[Katherine K.]

Thinking of you and Brock.

Katherine
On Apr 27, 2016 11:55 PM,  wrote:

> It seems you are on the right track and keeping his feedings small will
> help also.  I know my Harley who is not sick, just gulps down too much at
> one time and then up chucks has to get small amounts to prevent that.  I
> also have a pot of lemon grass for the cats to munch on when their stomachs
> are upset.With all he has going on, he has a lot on his plate to deal
> with and other than the right medications, the greatest gift you can give
> him i love.  mWill keep both of yu in my prayers.
>
>  Rachel Dagner  wrote:
> > My cat Tucker was throwing up his food. We went to the vet and got an
> X-ray which showed a mass in his chest. I brought him home with steroids
> but he still couldn't keep food down probably the mass was restricting the
> food from passing through since he was just regurgitating it right back up.
> Then he totally quit wanting to eat. Went to the vet and got high calorie
> emergency food and a syringe , watched a video on how to do it on YouTube.
> I was syringe feeding him for several days, I was doing some research and
> saw a lot of great reviews on Life Gold I had it sent over night from
> Amazon. I got it yesterday and gave him his two doses. Today he is eating
> on his own and eating quite a bit of the emergency food and even his dry
> food that I crunched up small. No regurgitation after all day of eating. I
> am only giving him a small amount each hour of so as not to upset his
> stomach, or overwhelm him. Maybe you can try syringe feeding and/or the
> liquid gold. I hope it is not lympho
>  ma
> >  , I cried for three days straight after the X-ray. I am getting
> vitality science cat cancer kit, I am not going to put him through chemo. I
> hope to extend his time and his quality of life. He is also more perky and
> acting like himself again after just one day on Life Gold. I pray it
> continues!
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Marsha  wrote:
> > >
> > > My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn.  He has been doing
> really great, and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year
> anniversary of being diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and
> Congestive Heart Failure.  Only 20% of cats with that diagnosis make it to
> the one year mark.  Brock is on 5 heart meds and 2 supplements, and has
> been doing great.  About 2 weeks ago, his appetite seemed to be a little
> off.  Sometimes he would eat all his food, sometimes not.  He occasionally
> catches a mouse that gets into the garage, so I wondered if he was full
> when I brought his dinner. This past Saturday, he was really fussy about
> taking his pills.  He has always been really good about eating his pill
> pockets, no hassle for me, no dropping them into his mouth.  Now he is
> balking at taking them even after I dip them in wet food (and they are
> already in pill pockets).  I coax and coax, and have had to manually pill
> him a few times.  He will eat 4 and leave 1, then I have t
>  o
> >  give that one manually.  Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1.  Now he
> wants baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later.  He gets his
> supplements mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to
> eat his food to get it.
> > >
> > > He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam.  The vet
> confirmed the enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there were
> enlarged nodes in the back leg area also.  Brock's PCV is only 18%, meaning
> he is anemic.  It is non-regenerative.  A needle aspiration was done on a
> lymph node, and the cytology should be back tomorrow.  My biggest fear is
> lymphoma, and it's going to tear through like a wildfire.
> > >
> > > Marsha
> > >
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Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

[dlgegg]

It seems you are on the right track and keeping his feedings small will help 
also.  I know my Harley who is not sick, just gulps down too much at one time 
and then up chucks has to get small amounts to prevent that.  I also have a pot 
of lemon grass for the cats to munch on when their stomachs are upset.With 
all he has going on, he has a lot on his plate to deal with and other than the 
right medications, the greatest gift you can give him i love.  mWill keep both 
of yu in my prayers.

 Rachel Dagner  wrote: 
> My cat Tucker was throwing up his food. We went to the vet and got an X-ray 
> which showed a mass in his chest. I brought him home with steroids but he 
> still couldn't keep food down probably the mass was restricting the  food 
> from passing through since he was just regurgitating it right back up. Then 
> he totally quit wanting to eat. Went to the vet and got high calorie 
> emergency food and a syringe , watched a video on how to do it on YouTube. I 
> was syringe feeding him for several days, I was doing some research and saw a 
> lot of great reviews on Life Gold I had it sent over night from Amazon. I got 
> it yesterday and gave him his two doses. Today he is eating on his own and 
> eating quite a bit of the emergency food and even his dry food that I 
> crunched up small. No regurgitation after all day of eating. I am only giving 
> him a small amount each hour of so as not to upset his stomach, or overwhelm 
> him. Maybe you can try syringe feeding and/or the liquid gold. I hope it is 
> not lympho
 ma
>  , I cried for three days straight after the X-ray. I am getting vitality 
> science cat cancer kit, I am not going to put him through chemo. I hope to 
> extend his time and his quality of life. He is also more perky and acting 
> like himself again after just one day on Life Gold. I pray it continues! 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Marsha  wrote:
> > 
> > My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn.  He has been doing really 
> > great, and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year anniversary of 
> > being diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and Congestive Heart 
> > Failure.  Only 20% of cats with that diagnosis make it to the one year 
> > mark.  Brock is on 5 heart meds and 2 supplements, and has been doing 
> > great.  About 2 weeks ago, his appetite seemed to be a little off.  
> > Sometimes he would eat all his food, sometimes not.  He occasionally 
> > catches a mouse that gets into the garage, so I wondered if he was full 
> > when I brought his dinner. This past Saturday, he was really fussy about 
> > taking his pills.  He has always been really good about eating his pill 
> > pockets, no hassle for me, no dropping them into his mouth.  Now he is 
> > balking at taking them even after I dip them in wet food (and they are 
> > already in pill pockets).  I coax and coax, and have had to manually pill 
> > him a few times.  He will eat 4 and leave 1, then I have t
 o 
>  give that one manually.  Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1.  Now he wants 
> baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later.  He gets his 
> supplements mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to eat 
> his food to get it.
> > 
> > He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam.  The vet confirmed 
> > the enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there were enlarged 
> > nodes in the back leg area also.  Brock's PCV is only 18%, meaning he is 
> > anemic.  It is non-regenerative.  A needle aspiration was done on a lymph 
> > node, and the cytology should be back tomorrow.  My biggest fear is 
> > lymphoma, and it's going to tear through like a wildfire.
> > 
> > Marsha
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Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

[Rachel Dagner]

My cat Tucker was throwing up his food. We went to the vet and got an X-ray 
which showed a mass in his chest. I brought him home with steroids but he still 
couldn't keep food down probably the mass was restricting the  food from 
passing through since he was just regurgitating it right back up. Then he 
totally quit wanting to eat. Went to the vet and got high calorie emergency 
food and a syringe , watched a video on how to do it on YouTube. I was syringe 
feeding him for several days, I was doing some research and saw a lot of great 
reviews on Life Gold I had it sent over night from Amazon. I got it yesterday 
and gave him his two doses. Today he is eating on his own and eating quite a 
bit of the emergency food and even his dry food that I crunched up small. No 
regurgitation after all day of eating. I am only giving him a small amount each 
hour of so as not to upset his stomach, or overwhelm him. Maybe you can try 
syringe feeding and/or the liquid gold. I hope it is not lymphoma
 , I cried for three days straight after the X-ray. I am getting vitality 
science cat cancer kit, I am not going to put him through chemo. I hope to 
extend his time and his quality of life. He is also more perky and acting like 
himself again after just one day on Life Gold. I pray it continues! 

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> On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Marsha  wrote:
> 
> My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn.  He has been doing really 
> great, and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year anniversary of 
> being diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and Congestive Heart Failure. 
>  Only 20% of cats with that diagnosis make it to the one year mark.  Brock is 
> on 5 heart meds and 2 supplements, and has been doing great.  About 2 weeks 
> ago, his appetite seemed to be a little off.  Sometimes he would eat all his 
> food, sometimes not.  He occasionally catches a mouse that gets into the 
> garage, so I wondered if he was full when I brought his dinner. This past 
> Saturday, he was really fussy about taking his pills.  He has always been 
> really good about eating his pill pockets, no hassle for me, no dropping them 
> into his mouth.  Now he is balking at taking them even after I dip them in 
> wet food (and they are already in pill pockets).  I coax and coax, and have 
> had to manually pill him a few times.  He will eat 4 and leave 1, then I have 
> to 
 give that one manually.  Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1.  Now he wants 
baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later.  He gets his supplements 
mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to eat his food to 
get it.
> 
> He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam.  The vet confirmed 
> the enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there were enlarged 
> nodes in the back leg area also.  Brock's PCV is only 18%, meaning he is 
> anemic.  It is non-regenerative.  A needle aspiration was done on a lymph 
> node, and the cytology should be back tomorrow.  My biggest fear is lymphoma, 
> and it's going to tear through like a wildfire.
> 
> Marsha
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[Felvtalk] Brock update

[Marsha]

My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn.  He has been doing really 
great, and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year anniversary 
of being diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and Congestive Heart 
Failure.  Only 20% of cats with that diagnosis make it to the one year 
mark.  Brock is on 5 heart meds and 2 supplements, and has been doing 
great.  About 2 weeks ago, his appetite seemed to be a little off.  
Sometimes he would eat all his food, sometimes not.  He occasionally 
catches a mouse that gets into the garage, so I wondered if he was full 
when I brought his dinner. This past Saturday, he was really fussy about 
taking his pills.  He has always been really good about eating his pill 
pockets, no hassle for me, no dropping them into his mouth.  Now he is 
balking at taking them even after I dip them in wet food (and they are 
already in pill pockets).  I coax and coax, and have had to manually 
pill him a few times.  He will eat 4 and leave 1, then I have to give 
that one manually.  Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1.  Now he wants 
baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later.  He gets his 
supplements mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to 
eat his food to get it.


He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam.  The vet 
confirmed the enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there 
were enlarged nodes in the back leg area also.  Brock's PCV is only 18%, 
meaning he is anemic.  It is non-regenerative.  A needle aspiration was 
done on a lymph node, and the cytology should be back tomorrow.  My 
biggest fear is lymphoma, and it's going to tear through like a wildfire.


Marsha

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