I recall Isabella had some breathing issues, too. She was anemic.
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Belinda Sauro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: breathing issues
Lynne,
He is gasping for breathe because his anemia is likely getting
worse, I would ask the Doc to put him on a fairly high dose of
prednisolone, get the compounded version, it is a transdermal gel that
gets rubbed on the inside of the ear. If his blood work tomorrow shows
his HCT is lower, if it is 10 or lower he would need a transfusion to
get him by until the pred and or doxy have a chance to kick in.
When my Bailey was anemic, we started him on doxy, pred and eventually
epogen, he lived 6 months and finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer.
We successfully reversed the anemia but we couldn't find the cancer we
were sure he had. His symptoms were different than what Boo is
experiencing, but his first symptoms was he quit eating and that is how
we discovered he was anemic.
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Belinda
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