Thank you Laurie for sharing your affirming experience with BJ and now
little Mitzi! It's music to my heart. Thank you also for including the
vet search link. You mention that your vet has BJ and Mitzi on a diet
that most vets wouldn't agree with, is it a raw diet? Could you please
post about specific treatments that you've found to be successful?
Thanks again, you made my day!
Nina
Laurie B. Oliver wrote:
Hello,
I have written numerous messages to the board about my cat,
BJ. Well, we adopted another cat, a female orange tabby named Mitzi.
Both are feline leukemia positive and both are doing great. For those
who might not know our story, here it is. My brother and I adopted a
black and white domestic shorthair we call BJ. At the time, he was
perfectly healthy. Then, three weeks later he had polyps in his left
ear and had surgery to remove them. His middle ear was removed and his
left ear closed. He has had no residual effect and his hearing is fine.
Then, about two months later, he began having strange,
unexplained fevers and was lethargic and not eating well. The
diagnosis was feline leukemia. The prognosis given by our vet at the
time, a traditional vet, was grim to say the least. She said the best
thing to do was to have BJ euthanized. We immediately started looking
for a vet who could help.
Our last appointment with that vet was on a Friday. We took BJ
home that night and had a consultation with an alternative vet the
next Monday morning. She practices holistic and homeopathic as well
as tradition veterinary medicine. Some of her methods are not
recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association. Some
traditional veterinarians would bristle at her ideas about good dog
and cat nutrition.
However, today, under our new vet's care, BJ is, for all
intense and purposes, healthy. He shows no outward sign of illness,
even though he still tests positive for feline leukemia. For anyone
looking for good veterinary care for an FeLV+ cat or kitten, the best
suggestion I can give is to contact the AHVMA, the Holistic Veterinary
Medical Association using this link http://www.ahvma.org/referral/. It
may help you find a vet in your area who can treat your cat's or
kitten's condition.
I wish I could tell you how much it means to my brother and me
to have a vet who has made the choice to treat feline leukemia, not
just kill the host. She has the knowledge expertise to do what a
traditional vet could not do. When we were given BJ's diagnosis a year
ago, it was like getting hit by a truck. When we were told there was
nothing to do but put him to sleep, it was like getting hit by a truck
again. We knew very little about the illness then. However, we knew
that if there was any chance that our precious BJ could live a good
life with this disease, then that's what he would do. We have never
looked back and are thankful every single day that we made the choice
to get BJ treated.
Our vet also successfully treats our little one, Mitzi. She is
now almost nine months old and is a curious, rambunctious, lively cat.
Our non-traditional vet has made a world of difference for our entire
family.
Laurie B. Oliver
