If it's just breathing issues, an emergency tracheotomy would be a immediate solution to that issue, though how cats do longer term with them I do not know. This is where a hole is cut in the throat to make a hole into the windpipe, thus letting the animal breathe through the neck area, instead of having to pass through the head cavity.
Phaewryn http://ucat.us/domesticcatlinks.html Special Needs Cat Resources ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Weese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 6:39 PM Subject: OK,Herbie does not have mediastinal LSA -- but probably something in hishead/sinus area which is making it hard for him to breathe. Two swollen lymph nodes --which were tested--results back Tuesday. But.........I don't know that he can make it till then. It's like he is congested in his head--and I think it's harder for him air almost daily--like something is really moving fast. Right now he looks a little pale, but I am going to watch him and if he stays pale, then I guess we go to the emerg. vet. I really think this bad, I just feel like he might not be here much longer. Tracy
