That kitten, I referred to earlier, it was a 7 hemocrit, I guess I left
that out in the message. The vet was shocked it was alive, and we did rush a
blood transfusion, luckily (for us, not for poor Sugar), we did keep a blood
donor cat in the office. The kitten went home the same day, after I defleaed it
using dish soap because it was too young for flea shampoo.
Poor Sugar, I always wonder what became of him after I left, he was the
blood donor cat, he lived his life in a 2x2x2 cage in the kennel, except for
early mornings before we opened for about 1/2 hour, and Sundays, while I was
there cleaning kennels. Beautiful long haired solid white deaf boy.
Phaewryn
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 1:25
PM
Subject: Re: PLease...need HELP - long,
sorry
At 10:09 AM 11/6/2006, you wrote:
I am not really
familiar enough to know, I just know that the transfusion does buy you the
time..and then you can use some of these other ideas, Right now Ido not thinkl
you have the luxury of waiting around, Just my opinion. Kelly
Thanks, Kelly. Have you
ever had or heard of a kitty coming back from a 7
hematocrit?
kelly
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- 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 for
reading.
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