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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 11:31
PM
Subject: Re: Brissle crashing again,
bloodwork looks grim.
I hope your baby feels better after the
transfusion!
I'd just like to point out, that in many cases (but not
all), there is a donor cat in the vet's office (maybe caged in the
back, or could be the "office cat" who greets you), who is saving your
cat's life. Try to go out of your way to tell the donor cat thanks (if
there is one), and give him/her a good petting, it's the least we can do
for those cats who do so much for us and out babies!
(I worked at a vet clinic and will never forget "Sugar"
our office's "donor cat". Just a little reminder that there's two sides to
every story.)
Jenn
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Well
Brissle is having her transfusion now. My internist feels that
she
really needs to have her marrow tested in order to be sure about
how to
proceed. If it is erythroleukemia, this is a rare form, that's
very hard to
treat. He said there's a small chance that an oncologist
may be able to move
forward without the marrow test. He just doesn't
know. That's not his
expertise. Of course the only oncologist is about
a four hour drive away. If
Brissle's rbc is high enough on Monday, I
will probably go ahead with the
test. These people are not cheap. $750
for the marrow test.
The other option the internist mentioned, as
crazy as it sounds, would be to
use the blood transfusions as her main
therapy. He believes that considering
what looks to be going on with
Brissle's bone marrow, the interferons and
immunoregulin may have only
been helping slightly. But the transfusion itself
was the main catalyst
towards Brissle recovering. I told him I thought blood
transfusions
only lasted a few days. But he said they can last a month or
two.
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