Michelle,
Have you considered talking to the feline health clinic at Cornell? I know
their website is a little out of date, but I imagine that their vets have
very up to date information available to them. You can schedule a phone
consultation for about 50.00 for an hour and I believe you can send them
back ground information in advance. It would be cheaper than a vet visit
and avoid the stress of putting Lucy in the car.
Kiley
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: Michelle - How is Lucy today?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:43:34 EDT
No, I still have not taken her there. I keep canceling (wonder how many
times
they'll let me do that). It's over 1.5 hours away, so probably an all day
event, and she just hates the car so much. If it were Patches, who does not
mind
the car, I probably would have gone already. When i had to move the cats
from MA to NJ, a 5 hour car trip, Lucy had diarrhea (before her IBD, just
from
stress) and threw up in the car and hid and meowed the whole time.
I do not think they would talk to me over the phone because I have never
been
there. And no, I still have not found anyone to prescribe budesonide.
Some cats with IBD do seem to respond to pred and need high doses for a
while. What I worry about, of course, is it being low grade lymphoma, which
would
also respond to pred but only at high doses. I am just trying to take it one
day at a time. Thank goodness for your turkey mush recipe though-- when she
is
not feeling her best she will not touch her raw food. I have had to cut the
Nu cat vitamins and pumpkin out of the mush, though, as they seemed to
bother
her.
The strange thing is that she is having totally solid bowels now, but about
3
times a day, versus her normal once a day. I don't know what that means.
Michelle
In a message dated 9/11/2006 7:15:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That Lucy is such a little dickens when it comes to getting into stuff
she shouldn't. I'm remembering the olive oil incident, (what's with the
oil craving?). If she's anything like Gypsy, bread crumbs would be
enough to cause trouble. I haven't had Gypsy on steroids for such a
long time that I can say without a doubt that it's not a dosage factor,
it's from her eating ANYTHING other than her mush. I mean, for goodness
sake, she can't even eat plain turkey without problems. Have you ever
brought Lucy in to see this specialist that's so far away? Would they
discuss her case with you over the phone since she's feeling better
now? Perhaps they might be willing to talk to you, about the
ramifications of switching her to prednisolone and the dosage amounts,
(you know, hypothetically). I take it you never found anyone to
prescribe Budesonide? We all need a vet in the family.
N
