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Tabbs Spanish Siamese tabby point
FELV positive and Sandra
Took him in when he was a full male
adult, age unknown, between 6 and 10. We Fully Vacc and neutered
without testing , sharing home with 5 other cats 4 who have been taken in by
me,
lost 2 last year due to FELV, not
tame enough to treat. Also took a kitten in who tested FELV, when 6 months old,
but last test Nov 2005 was neg ,all 3 other cats testing
Neg.
Blood tests to date,
Jan `13 2006
HCT 17.5 old vets
Jan 20
2006 HCT 17.2 new vets urea
40
Jan 28
2006 HCT 20.9
Feb
2006 HCT 10.00
Feb 25 2006
HCT 11.2
March 9 2006
HCT 14.3 Kidneys OK but liver which has been fine is not so
good.
March 28 2006 HCT
11.1 a little more Regenerative 3:
if you wish me to e mail you a copy of the
complete blood test I am happy to do so. as I am not that good at reading
them,
also they are in Spanish some
times.
30 Jan 2006 analysis Tabbs has no parasite
(haemobartonella) in the blood.
vet recommends to repeat the PROTEC.to make the
immune system stronger, one week after first injection. done
(from my Vet Victoria )
Hello Sandra: I am so happy to tell you that
Tabbs hct is 14.3 %!!! 9.3.2006
Last time was 11 % and a non regenerative
anaemia. Now is a little regenerative.
So, now I suggest to follow in this
way:
-Vitamins and rest of the medication: the
same as before,
started 27.02-Dacortin 5mg: injection then1
tablet /that evening followed by , 2 tablets per day for 3 days
then 1 tablet mornings for 5 days. then one every other day, until further
notice.
(could be 10 days when my vet will do another
blood test.
-Interferon omega: ( started Virbagen Omega 4th
March 1/2 bottle every other day. Tabbs HCT reading was 10% at this point. then
1/4 bottle every day(02.5 UI) ( 5 bottles) 10mu 500 euros
He had been 17.5% dropping to 17.2, then after
the iron and vitamins plus restarting the stomorgy Tabbs went up to 21% (great)
at this point I did not feel the need for the Interferon omega,
(wrong) But on retesting again he had drop to 10 HCT so
that is when we started the Interferon. .
-Vitamins and rest of the medication: the
same as before,
this was 1/2 tablet per day of fortekor
5
1/2 tablet stomorgyl per day 10kgs Tabb has been
on stomorgyl for about 6 weeks. may be longer.
Vitamins drops and iron drops each day for the
last 6 weeks( mixed in warm milk)
L-lysine just start, about 5 days now 500mg
morning and evening( mixed in food)
Here is Tabbs History to
date,
Xmas 2005 pneumonia , hiding in the airing
cupboard for about 5 days, then moved to spending all day in the bathroom
sink.
treated the pneumonia with antibiotics , I can
not remember what type, and also the fact that he tested
FELV pos in Nov 2005 was probably
the reason why he had picked up the pneumonia.
At that time my old vet was only treating him
with stomorgly for his bad mouth and teeth, alongside
giving him vitamin B injections. after finding
the groups web site, (so Helpful) I printed out a lot of
the information that I had collected, and took it down to my vet
,
But in fairness to him , my lack of Spanish and
his lack of English proved to be a lack of interest in the information I had
collected followed by comments of
having tried the following with out
success, he was uninterested . At that time the paper I shown him was
headed ImmunoRegulin -------
More reading, and discontent, I change vets and
found one that was recommended, and who is open to suggestions, and also had
treated 3 of her own clients cats with the feline interferon.
So to date, Tabbs was started on the omega
interferon when his blood count was reading 10%, where my new Vet remarked
that he should have die, and that she was unsure to weather we would
have
any success in treating Tabbs at this late
stage.Sadly we could have started his treatment
of the interferon earlier, but due to his readings on the 28 Jan, we
thought the treatment was working.
Two other points that are the beginning of Tabbs
History, are that first he has had bad teeth for the last 2 years, and
having waited for his kidney readings to come down enough for us to give
his teeth a clean and remove the bad teeth, we wasted 18 months before being
able to do this. But since he has been on the stomorgyl for over 2
months now, it appears that there is no problem with his Kidneys. my old vet
tested in house his self, and my new vet sends the blood away to a very good
place that is 99% correct.
Tabbs has had a X ray at his old vets, and I
was told that there did not seem to be any tumours showing, But he has got
2 small lumps in his mouth which are beginning to get too big, and they are
giving him a great deal of trouble, so much so that he as stop eating, and on
the 26 of Feb I was thinking of calling the vet out to put him to sleep due
to him being on a real down.But he pick up the next day, and is still
fighting.
Today the 13th Feb his mouth is playing up a lot,
We are waiting for another blood test to see if we can do his teeth for him
and hopefully remove the lumps or tumours,My vet had to return to
Holland due to family problems and will not return to Spain until the
22 March, I only hope he can wait that long, and also that his
readings are good enough to operate.
Sadly this was not the case, no
operation due to blood test showing a drop, and also having run out of my second
batch of feline interferon I could not afford a 3rd batch,
so we ordered Interferon A,
and to date Tabbs seems to have not ill effects
with it, also its is such a relief not to do the injections. As I was advise we
could give by mouth.
Tabbs had been eating quite well , with a lot of
nice things to temp him, also up to a point he had not lost too much weight. But
now his weight loss is dropping very rapidly.
I think that as soon as we took a break from the
feline interferon, that short break seem to let things drop back down, to where
we were at the beginning. Also may be
changing with the gap to Interferon A was a bad move, I will
never know.
Up until the end I was still trying to get the
Epogen, with no success. even though I thought I was close on 2
occasions.
hope this has been of some help to you, any
comments more than welcome
April 8th Tabbs was put to sleep
at home.
Last test
28 March 2006 HCT 11.1 but a little more
Regenerative 3: drop back down
from 14.1
Tabbs was A great fighter, this Big
gentle Teddy bear did not wish to give up with out a big fight. Love you
Tabbs, and missing you.
We are taking Tabbs some where, which will
do a single cremation,for us, and then he is coming home to keep us company,
where he will still be part of the family.
Sandra and Tabbs Kindest
Regards
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