I believe the vet said it was likely a lymphoma due to the lymphocytes
being high in the blood. And I am using prednisone right now.
I am syringe feeding her even though its terribly stressful on both her and
me, but how do you tell the calorie amount in a food? All I can see on the
cans is a breakdown of the protein, fat etc. Does fat = calories?
The vet said I shouldn't be giving her a food high in fat, that it would be
too hard on her liver since its already having a hard time.
The vet gave me a cardiovascular food, that i'm supposed to add a bit of
potassium and vegetable oil to, and blend up.
Cassandra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Update on Kisa
Do they mean cancer or do they mean lymphoma? Because if lymphoma, you
can treat that with prednisone. It's not the drug of choice IF you are
going to do chemo, but if you are not going to do chemo & it IS lymphoma,
then pred would be an option.
But if she's not eating, she will weaken & die if she does not get hepatic
lipidosis before that. In which case in her already weakened state there
would be little hope. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but when a cat doesn't
eat, things don't "work out." And an FeLV cat is even more vulnerable.
If it's lymphoma as opposed to cancer somewhere, you might buy some time
with pred. But if she doesn't get high caloric food into her (either AD or
Eukanaba's MaxCal), at least a can a day, she will not make it.
Pam
C & J wrote:
Thank you all for your suggestions.
I went to the vet today and got some injectable chloropromazine. They
said it should help with the vomiting, though it is also a sedative. Kisa
still vomited this evening, about 3 hours after a syringe feeding, but
hopefully they drug just needs more time to work.
The vet got back some blood test results, and says that it looks like
cancer. They can't know for sure without a biopsy, but they don't
suggest doing that.
So really i'm left with not really knowing for sure what is going on.
They won't do chemo without a definite diagnosis for cancer. I'm not
sure if I could afford that anyway...they didn't say exactly how much it
would cost, but said it wouldn't be a good idea to spend thousands on
FeLV+ cat with a poor prognosis.
Kisa is absolutely hating the syringe feedings. She's all of 6-7 pounds
and it takes both my husband and I to hold her. For a weak kitty she
sure can put up a fight. By the time we're done, she's got food all over
herself, and us. I don't think she's going blind, because she takes off
like a shot after the feeding.
We allow her into our bedroom at night now...our bedroom is reserved for
sick kitties only. She really seemed to enjoy that, and even crawled
under the covers and curled up to me purring. I haven't seen her that
happy in awhile. But this mornign at 5:30 am, I woke up to a huge puddle
of orange pee (filled with Bilirubin) right between us. She didn't even
try to use the litter box or even squat to pee.
Well we were up after that trying to wash some of the bedding before
going to work.
It sure has been a long haul here, I can only hope somehow it will work
out.
Cassandra
----- Original Message -----
*From:* C & J <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
<mailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
*Sent:* Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:20 PM
*Subject:* Update on Kisa
Well, after going to the vet today, it's not looking good for Kisa.
She has elevated bilirubin in her blood/urine, and elevated number
of lymphocytes. Therefore they believe she has a liver disease,
possibly lymphosarcoma.
The only way they can tell for sure what the problem is with her
liver is to do a biopsy which means surgery. They didn't
suggest doing this though because of the FeLV and her immune
system being compromised.
They gave me prednisone and baytril for her, though i'm really not
sure how she'll handle keeping those down when she is vomiting so
easily. They're hoping the steroid will make her feel a little
better and maybe regain some appetite.
I've really got to try and get her to eat something, she hasn't
eaten since Saturday night now.
I don't understand why this is all happening at once. First I
watched Tomi get sicker and sicker for nearly 2 months. As soon
as he started getting better, Koda got sick with kidney and liver
failure, and died. Now, barely a week later Kisa goes from being
a super healthy and active cat to death's door. I haven't even
had enough time to get used to Koda being gone, now its another
crisis situation.
This is all after having nothing but healthy, happy, and active
cats for 12 years.
I used to think how awful it would be if my house burned down
while I was away and my 5 cats were inside. What is happening now
is almost worse than that since it is so prolonged and i'm
beginning to wonder if something I am doing is causing all this
(like feeding raw food). I've always kept my cats indoors because
I didn't want them to get run over by a car, etc....but they seem
to be no safer indoors.
Sorry for venting on you all, its just really starting to affect
me, both emotionally and financially.
Cassandra
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