Re: [Felvtalk] Tommy is gone

[Sharyl]

Lisa, I was saddened to read Tommy has crossed the Rainbow Bridge.  He had a 
wonderful 1 1/2 yrs with you.  He is now happily romping in the green meadows 
chasing butterflies with all our angels.
Sharyl

--- On Sat, 5/8/10, Lisa Borden tuckerandtes...@zoominternet.net wrote:

 From: Lisa Borden tuckerandtes...@zoominternet.net
 Subject: [Felvtalk] Tommy is gone
 To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
 Date: Saturday, May 8, 2010, 9:40 AM
 Just a note to let you know that
 Tommy lost his battle with FeLV on Tuesday. I still cannot
 believe how quickly it took over, and by Tuesday morning he
 was so weak and his eyes were so empty. It was like his soul
 had left his little body. He was extremely anemic and his
 liver enzymes were elevated. I do know that recently, he had
 ceased to be happy, and that was really bothering me. He
 passed away Tuesday morning in my arms as he got the
 medicine that helped him to an eternal sleep.
 
 I want to thank everyone for the information on this list,
 because even though I didn't post often I did read the list
 frequently. I have to believe that he had a year and a half
 with me that he might not have had with someone else.
 
 I will continue to pray for you and your furbabies. May
 something be discovered to help these kitties.
 
 Much love,
 Lisa
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[Felvtalk] Please add Sissy to the CLS

[Sharyl]

Like Tommy my sweet Sissy also passed away Tuesday.  She had a peaceful passing 
at the vets.  She was ready to go.  My dear neighbor drove us so I could hold 
her on the trip.  

I rescued her and her sis Rocket from the dumpsters 2 1/2 years ago.   Took 
them to the vet and they tested positive for FeLV.  After getting my house cats 
updated on their FeLV vaccine they were became part of my cat family.  They 
were my 1st FeLV kitties and I have learned so much from this group on how to 
help them.  Both were active and healthy but Sissy's lymph nodes were always 
enlarged.

Thought we might have made it past those critical points but a couple of weeks 
ago Sissy started the fast FeLV fade.  She was such a loving little girl.  She 
would jump up on the kitchen counter to help me get out her Temptation treats.  
How she loved them.

I know she had a good 2 1/2 yrs and that consoles me but I sure miss her.  
Rocket seems to understand and has been giving me extra loving.
Sharyl


  

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Re: [Felvtalk] trying again to post Murphy's results

[jbero tds.net]

Alice,

I don't want to say this, but the bloodwork worries me.  The neutrophils are
elevated- which alone would comfort me in believing that there is simply a
bacterial infection that could be treated with antibiotics.  Whatever else,
the elevated neutrophils highly suggests a bacterial infection of some
sort.  What worries me is the drop in RBC and lymphocytes as well as the
increase in MCV.  This can be seen in felv disease progression.  Basically
the MCV is the size of the RBCs.  This suggests to me that the RBCs are
either reticulocytes (immature RBCs that are usually present in felv when
they have something like bartonella or a similar disease process) or when
their bone marrow is making sick RBCs as is seen when the virus mutates and
causes bad disease.

There are two things I would like to know in this case.  One, did they give
you a value for the reticuloctye count? Two, did a pathologist or even the
vet look at the blood smear to see if there was any agglutination of the
RBCs?

I have to be honest with you that I really don't like the blood work.  I
agree with the others in that azithromycin is a stellar drug in this
situation -hopefully bartonella is causing the anemia rather than mutated
virus, and calicivirus causing the eye drainage.

The good news is that I don't really see evidence of a lymphoma.  If he is
going downhill he's just beginning to go there.  If it were me, I would
treat this aggressively.  By that I mean antibiotics for the possible
Bartonella (blood smear would show agglutination and you can look at
Murphy's ears to see if the skin is yellow, yellow suggests jaundice that
can occur when the rbcs are destroyed by bartonella), lysine for the
calicivirus, LTCI injections more frequently and interferon as you had been
doing it.  You could try the acemannan injections - but I'm not sure about
any drug interactions here, I would research that a little first.

I have been impressed recently with orthomolecular therapy including Vitamin
C, Vitamin E, vitamin A Vitamin D fish oil and NAC.  It would not be a bad
idea to add cod liver oil and mega C to his diet.  NAC can be added
separately.  Finally, there is an immune support tablet made by Standard
Process that may provide added support.  I have no solid studies on it, but
perhaps a combination of treatments including megavitamin therapy, LTCI,
interferon and antibiotic treatment could help.

There are a lot of possibilities and which one or group of meds you chose is
up to you.  One word of caution, prednisone is often used in the treatment
of bartonella but will disminish the effects of LTCI.

My heart goes out to you right now.  There is hope, as there is always hope,
and I will pray for you and your little one.

Jenny



On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:08 PM, trmckel...@charter.net wrote:

 Hi Alice,

 I noted you've cut your LTCI administration back to 10 weeks.   I give it
 once a month, might not be necessary, but I'm not comfortable cutting back
 any further.

 If you can afford it, I'd be inclined to restart the sequence at once per
 week for a month, then every other week, etc.  The Gingerich paper on LTCI
 showed a RBC improvement of 30%, which would help. That plus the extra
 immune system support may be just what Murphy needs.

 Terry
  Alice Flowers aliceflow...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

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  I am going to put asterisks between them-

 04/25**01/08**11/21/09**REFERENCE
 WBC*7.86.26.6***4.2-15.6
 RBC*4.85***10.95**10.22*6.0-10.0
 HGB*11.1***14.4***12.8**9.5-15
 HCT*32.3***39.5***3629-45
 MCV*67*36*3541-58
 MCH*22.9***13.1***12.5*11.0-17.5
 MCHC34.4***36.5***35.6**29-36


 the dates**04/2501/08***11/21/09***reference
 Neutrophil Seg***85*62*34***35-75
 Lymphocytes**7**29*55***20-55
 Monocytes5**4**5*1-4
 Eosinophil***3**6**6*2-12
 Basophil*0**0**0**0-1
 Auto Platelet63887?343**170-600
 Absol. Neutophil Seg**6630**3844**2244*2500-12500
 Absol. Lymphocyte*546***1798***36301500-7000
 Absol. Monocyte390*248330***0-850
 Absol. Eosinophil***234***372***396*0-1500
 Absol. Basophil***000**0-100
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