RE: PLease...need HELP - long, sorry

[Rosenfeldt, Diane]

Yeesh.  Now you're making me feel sad for Sugar....  Didn't that arrangement seem, well, unconscionable?   Diane R. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennifer Phaewryn O'Gwynn Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:31 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: PLease...need HELP - long, sorry 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   Please adopt a cat from Little Cheetah Cat Rescue!!! http://ucat.us/adopt.html Low cost Spay&Neuter services in VT, and Emergency Financial Assistance for cat owners: http://ucat.us/VermontLowCost.html Special Needs Cat Resources: http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html The Sofa Poem: http://ucat.us/sofapoem.html Find us on PETFINDER! http://petfinder.com/shelters/VT44.html ----- Original Message ----- From: kelly To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 for reading. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.29/520 - Release Date: 11/6/2006 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.29/520 - Release Date: 11/6/2006 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.28/518 - Release Date: 11/4/2006 This electronic mail transmission and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. They should be read or retained only by the intended recipient. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the transmission from your system. In addition, in order to comply with Treasury Circular 230, we are required to inform you that unless we have specifically stated to the contrary in writing, any advice we provide in this email or any attachment concerning federal tax issues or submissions is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, to avoid federal tax penalties.