I've personally SEEN a kitten with bad flea anemia bounce back in minutes
with a transfusion. Don't just assume it's the FELV just because he HAS FELV,
you're writing off all other possibilities based on a FELV test result, without
seeking other explanations.
Phaewryn
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Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 1:09
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Subject: Re: PLease...need HELP - long,
sorry
Thanks, Kelly. Have you ever had or heard of a kitty
coming back from a 7 hematocrit?
kelly
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wrote:
At
09:47 AM 11/6/2006, you wrote:
With a crit of 7 I think stress
may be secondary. I would do the transfusion and try to buy a bit of
time...go from there. Kelly
Does anybody have any
ideas? Susan(who wrote a message today) has a critical situation
with her FELV baby Valley - a beautiful flame point Siamese. Didn't
want to miss out on any suggestions, as it was a long message.
Thanks - Gloria
On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Susan Loesch
wrote: ...
And now Valley - please put
him on the special needs list - I need prayers or meditation or chanting
or whatever you believe in -- for a remission for the feleuk crisis he
is in. He is another of my "library cats" who comes to work with
me. He was a rescue from a kill shelter about 5 years ago - he was
1 or 2 at the time. Feleuk positive. Looked like death
warmed over but once fattened up has been so healthy that I had him
retested last year to see if he'd reverted to neg. He began
losing weight about 2 weeks ago - gums pale as snow. Blood work
shows a hematocrit of 7 - almost not compatible with life.
He is still somewhat active - gets off the bed to go to the litterbox
and sometimes to the rest of the house. Will eat if I put food in
front of him. His vet thought we could get a remission until
the blood work came back. He is getting raw liver,
Clindamycin, 5mg pred every day, PetTinic, interferon. I have
immunoregulin and could try that. I asked about Epogen and
the way my vet explained it is that with feline leukemia, where the bone
marrow is basically "dead" and not going to produce red cells, to give
Epogen would be like knocking on the door when nobody is
home. We decided against blood transfusions due to the
stress and the short term result. Does anyone have any
ideas? I apologize for the length of this. Thanks
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