Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-15 Thread Lernermichelle
Lucy has always been really fussy about food, and will not eat anything mixed with anything else, even if she would eat both separate. And she doesn't eat wet or dry food (she never liked wet and dry makes her sick now). The only thing she can eat is her raw diet or cooked turkey or duck. I

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-15 Thread Belinda
Michelle, Maybe try mixing the baby food with her regular food and slowly phase it out so she is eating only her regular food. I'm currently phasing out the Fancy Feast and getting my guys on a better food. Then we work on phasing out the dry :) Cody is getting bigger and bigger. --

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-15 Thread Lernermichelle
Thanks, Kerry. Actually, her stools seem pretty normal now, just a bit soft but that could be because I gave her a lot of rice bran yesterday mixed in with her baby food.  She is back on 10 mg/day of pred. I am not really worried about keeping her on that for a while. It's more that I am wor

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-15 Thread Kerry Roach
Hi Michelle, I hope Lucy is feeling better today..I sure don't know what to do cause what works for Inky doesn't seem to work for Lucy.  Have you tried adding bene-bac?  I gave Inky some when he had loose stool and Bandy, too.. The bran isn't working either I take it... I know my lymphoma kitty

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread Belinda
I hadn't heard that, so I'll keep it in mind, it comes up on the lymphoma list sometimes. -- Belinda happiness is being owned by cats ... Be-Mi-Kitties http://bemikitties.com Post Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens http://adopt.bemikitties.com FeLV Candlelight Service http://bemikitties.

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread Lernermichelle
actually, more recent studies have shown that this is true for dogs but not for cats.  However, you are right that it would make it harder to detect.   In a message dated 7/14/2006 2:04:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if chemo is an option you want to consider, be

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread Belinda
It's possible that she is constipated, especially if it's happened before it may be a concern. The only bad thing with pred is if there is any suspicion at all that there may be lymphoma, the longer they are on pred the harder lymphoma may be to detect and if chemo is an option you want to

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread Nina
Hi Michelle, You know my prayers and thoughts are always with you and Lucy.  We've talked about this so many times...  Her symptoms are so much like Gypsy's (the way she bounces back from flare ups and then has problems again), my intuition is telling me that she has a wicked case of IBD and no

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread wendy
Michelle, Prayers going out for little Lucy as well as you. Please keep us posted, especially after she sees the internist. :) Wendy --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lucy was doing better, getting over her IBD flare-up > I thought; but I > tapered her down to 5 mg/day of pred yesterday (did >

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread Lernermichelle
Thanks so much, Belinda.  I think it is very possible that Lucy's IBD has just gotten worse, that the pred made her better, and that I weaned her too fast.  I hope that is the case, and that she gets better.  I really don't want to take her for all sorts of tests, or to put her on leukeran i

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread TatorBunz
Sending a lot of prayers and she is in my thoughts as well.   Terrie Mohr-ForkerTAZZY'S ANIMAL TRANSPORTSSIAMESE & COLLIE RESCUEOwner/DriverCheck sites for available Siameses for adoption!http://www.tazzys-siameses-collies.petfinder.org/Click Here to Join WASHINGTON SIAMESE RESCUE Yahoo Group!ht

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread Belinda
Lots of prayers for Lucy to get stable and be able to live in harmony with her sensitive tummy. -- Belinda happiness is being owned by cats ... Be-Mi-Kitties http://bemikitties.com Post Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens http://adopt.bemikitties.com FeLV Candlelight Service http://bemikit

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread Belinda
Michelle, I have a friend who's kitty had bad IBD same as Lucy, they also had to have her on pred as she got very bad without it. The doctors had given up on her at some point but my never did and finally got her stabalized, she has been on pred for over 7 years and is doing great. I th

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread Lernermichelle
The soonest internist appointment I could get is for Monday morning, so I made that.  They said I can bring her to the ER, but I do not see the point in that, since they would  not be able to do what is necessary to diagnose her anyway.  I gave her fluids last night, put her back on full set

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread moonvine
>From me too...I'm so sorry she isn't doing well. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:07 am Subject: Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > > Good thoughts and prayers going up for you and for L

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-14 Thread ETrent
Good thoughts and prayers going up for you and for Lucy.   elizabeth   In a message dated 7/13/2006 8:28:06 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lucy was doing better, getting over her IBD flare-up I thought; but I tapered her down to 5 mg/day of pred yesterday (did 10 f

RE: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-13 Thread catatonya
Praying for Lucy here as well.   tTracy Weese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Don't wait, get her checked.  One of my negative cats, Puddin'taine, started losing weight last year and I took him in to the vets' and we ran all kinds of tests and everything seemed to be finehe was almost ten a

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-13 Thread Marylyn
Don't wait.    I am sending lots of prayers.  May all the angels surround you and Lucy.  She is a dear little cat who loves you tremendously.             If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures  

RE: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-13 Thread Tracy Weese
Don't wait, get her checked.  One of my negative cats, Puddin'taine, started losing weight last year and I took him in to the vets' and we ran all kinds of tests and everything seemed to be finehe was almost ten and we thought maybe he was just losing a little as some cats dowell, then h

Re: Please say a prayer for Lucy

2006-07-13 Thread Sherry DeHaan
Michelle,  I will be thinking good thoughts and  sending  prayers for Lucy, Sherry[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lucy was doing better, getting over her IBD flare-up I thought; but I tapered her down to 5 mg/day of pred yesterday (did 10 for a week, then 7.5 for 4 days, then 5 starting yesterday) a