At 08:36 PM 1/17/2007, you wrote:
Oh Michelle...you will be in my thoughts all the night. what time is
it there???You are doing the very best you can and giving her so
much, but it is so very hard. Please please let us know what they
say. I am glad they tapped her and she is more comfortable, that is
an awfully low crit...
Good healing thoughts to both of you and drive carefully and care for yourself
kelly
Lucy's temp spiked to 106.7 tonight so I took her to the ER. They
did blood work and her HCt is at 18 and her bun and liver enzymes
are low. They took xrays and it looked to them (ER doctors, who I
don't really trust to read xrays totally correctly) like she has
fluid in her abdomen and an enlarged heart. They tapped the fluid
and could not tell what it is. With IV fluids and some torbutrol her
temp came down to 100.6 in two hours. I then took her home, against
their advice, because they did not seem to think they could do
anything and she was miserable there. I have an appointment for 7:30
am at Red Bank, the best vet hospital in the state, with an
oncologist. It is 2 hours away, so we need to leave at 5:30 am. Lucy
hates car rides, but I want a better diagnosis, and I want it from
the best people. Except for the fact that she is still eating
(probably not normally, but not completely terribly either) and
alert, and her protein ratio which does not point to FIP, her
clinical signs and blood work otherwise could mean wet FIP. The ER
vet thinks it's lymphoma. She was trying to convince me that FeLV+
cats dont respond to chemo, even though I told her I had one who did
and know others with cats who have. It is possible it is FIP, it is
possible that it is lymphoma so bad that nothing can be done or that
she has heart problems that will complicate chemo and I can't do
it. But I want to try, at least, to get a better diagnosis before
deciding all of this. She is happy to be home for now. She ate a
little bit of cooked turkey, probably 10 or 15 little pieces.
Please pray hard for her. It does not look good. I hope she can at
least have some good time left. she is my baby, more than any of the
others, though I love them too. she is my love.
Michelle
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