Re: [Felvtalk] Off topic but if anyone can help with info? fluid in lungs

2012-03-04 Thread jbero tds.net
Duh - I forgot There is a very high possibility of heart failure. If that is the case, lasix will help tremendously. There are a host of treatment options for heart failure. I have a cat with it and I give her coq 10. There is a fairly easy blood test for heart failure. Otherwise it's ultraso

Re: [Felvtalk] Off topic but if anyone can help with info? fluid in lungs

2012-03-04 Thread dppl dppl
Thanks again to all who are replying.  Marta, I didn't see the cat turn blue thevet told me this happened when they took her in the back to draw blood. she came out and told me this & suggested an x ray instead. Right now, it has been 1.5 days since vet visit and she is on lasix twice a day after o

Re: [Felvtalk] Off topic but if anyone can help with info? fluid in lungs

2012-03-04 Thread jbero tds.net
I hate to tell you this, but I just had to put my cat down two weeks ago because of pleural effusions (fluid around the lungs). He had lung cancer. I had the fluid drained about five times in the course of three weeks. The fluid build up got too rapid and I couldn't put him through any more lung

Re: [Felvtalk] Off topic but if anyone can help with info? fluid in lungs

2012-03-04 Thread Marta Gasper
Time is of the essence here, she's not getting enough oxygen if she's turning blue so brain damage is a real possibility. Feral (and if she was born feral from feral mom but you took her in before she was 4 months, even if she didn't tame she's still less feral than a true feral, I know I've 5 o

Re: [Felvtalk] Is my kitten having his first FIV/FELV episode?

2012-03-04 Thread Lorrie
On 02-28, Lynda Wilson wrote: >Any update? I'm thinking of your kitty and hope everything is >better. Please let us know, thanks! I hope we hear from this person. When we don't hear how the cat is doing we imagine the worst.such as the cat was not taken to the vet and just died