RE: FW: My little brave RubyE's adventure -

[Hideyo Yamamoto]

Thank you, Nina --- I appreciated your instruction --- it helped so much to stay calm.  Yeah, if it continues to be red, and prevent her from eating, I would consider other things like a small amount of interferon --- I have some pet guard wet food, but I went to buy some A/D as I think she liked it last time.. I hope she will feel better very very soon.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nina Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:02 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: FW: My little brave RubyE's adventure -   Hooray!  I'm so pleased and proud that she did so well!  Isn't it amazing?  The same thing happened with Star and his visit to the vet.  I'm a little concerned that the vet wasn't able to tell you exactly what is going on with her.  If there is continuing inflammation, why is it present?  What's the underlying cause?  I guess I should be happy that they didn't find anything!  I'm praying that the antibiotic injection does the trick and her gums return to normal.  I wish you could give her Interferon A.  It seemed to help Gracie's gums when they were inflamed.  I understand not wanting to put her on steroids, but they don't have side effects when given in small enough, short term doses.  You may want to consider it again, if she doesn't improve quickly.  Do you have her on wet food in the meantime?  Sweet little RubyE!  Good for you my dear, I'm proud of you too! Nina Hideyo Yamamoto wrote: Hi, everyone, thank you for all the support for my baby RubyE - I took her to the vet this morning. My AC, Jasmine talked to RubyE a night before on my behalf, and try to explain to her that what's going to happen to her this morning.  She was so scared of the idea of going to the vet, and Jasmine suggested that RubyE limps when I try to catch her either with a blanket or fish net, which will make things go much faster.  In the past, she has alwasy fought against so hard that her mouth got bleed, and her claws got caught in the net.. it just has been so traumatic and that's why I was so nervous about trying to catch her this time again.   Anyway, as Nina suggested below last night, I exactly followed her instruction, and talked to her -- she had a huge round eye, and staring at me. And this morning, the time has come.. I went to catch her slowly with a fish net -- and guess what she did?  She limped --- she just stayed still, and did not try to fight against me at all.. she just was laying under the net which was an amazing miracle to me as it was so different form how she acted in the past.   And at the vet, they anethaized her, and she did soooooooo good!  The vet did almost everthing, blood test, stool, and urinalysis, X-tray in addtion to regular exam -- they really did not find anythign wrong with her - except that she has very red teeth.. they had pulled her teeth in November, and her teeth is not bad right now.. just very red gum--- so they suggested steroid.. and I had to say no to that,, because I am very worried about any side effects and I really don't belive in it unless for a very extreme sitatuion.. but they vet has given a shot of pennisillin instead.  The vet did find some thinkning of her intestents and she gave me a couple of potential causes --- IBD, lymphoma cancer, or just inflamation..  so, for now, I decide to believe that she just has some sort of chronic inflamtion.. and not think of the worst --- I just don't have the feeling that that's what she has ---- I noticed that she likes to eat tuna, but can't eat hard food as much.. so I am thinking that maybe her gum is the primary reason for her losing weight... ---- again, because of high gloublin, and her being corona virus titer positive, she also suggested a possibility of FIP -- again, I dont' think she has that either for some reason.. I am crossing my finger that it's her gum and pennisilin will help her  and can start eating again.. my holistic vet suggested a remedy so, I will give it to her via water bowel tonight ---   please give my baby RubyE a big tap on her shoulder (is that the _expression_?) - she did so well, and I was just so proud of her and wanted to cry.. I brought her home and gave her tuna and ate the whole plate -   Thank you so very much for all your prayers and pls continue to pray that she will only get better!    Hideyo