Part 2
Chuckie The kittens Tommy, Chuckie and Angelica, were altered and received their rabies vaccinations on September 20, 2009. (Note, again, Lukey died on October 1). On October 8 the kittens then received FVRCP vaccinations and were still asymptomatic at that time. About 12-15 days later one of the male kittens, Chuckie, became lethargic and feverish and stopped eating just as Lukey had done. Between October 20 and October 31, despite extended vet visits, hospitalizations, and negative test results except for mild anemia (Haemobartonella, toxoplasmosis, coronavirus, ELISA, PCR, normal lymphocytes and globulins, urine cultures, x-rays, ultrasounds) with three different vets including one specialist, the diagnosis remained "fever of unknown origin" and the only thing done for him was a bucket load of antibiotics and steroids. Still thinking that his illness was perhaps triggered by the vaccination, and distraught that the conventional approach was failing and his condition declining, on October 31 I took him straight from a week-long hospitalization with one vet to the vet I had used for intravenous vitamin C treatments for my FeLV cat with lymphosarcoma (who is still alive two years after his original diagnosis). We put Chuckie on a vitamin C drip that day of 5g daily (1g per pound of body weight as we had used for Linus) for six days, with double drips morning and evening on the last two days, and he appeared much better with his fever down. Unfortunately, the drip was stopped on Thursday because his veins were shot from all of his earlier hospitalizations and blood draws and also because the vet's office would be closed over the weekend. He still seemed better on Saturday and was even out in the yard walking around with me. By the time the vet opened again on Tuesday, November 10, however, Chuckie's condition was critical, with severe neurological involvement including ataxia and head tremors. He was hospitalized that day and the drip restarted, along with his sister Angelica who was now manifesting with identical symptoms (the third of my cats to exhibit this illness). More blood was drawn from Chuckie and sent for analysis. Where he had previously been negative across the board on all test results numerous times except for chronic mild anemia, the new results returned with rising coronavirus titers and a PCR test positive for dry FIP. He also had eye involvement on ophthalmoscopic exam including granulomas. Chuckie was so very sick on the day that these positive test results returned and clearly dying that there was no alternative but to euthanize him. At this point the vet bills for Lukey, Chuckie and Angelica have totaled nearly $4000 and had it not been for some FEMA money that we received from the flooding, we would have been in tremendous debt. Meanwhile, Angelica is still hospitalized and following right behind Chuckie with identical symptoms even including some transient neurologic involvement. Continued in next post . . . Sally Snyder Jewell Sally Snyder Jewell, Marketing Director Tower Laboratories Corporation www.HeartTech.com 1-877-TOWER-LABS Practicing Medicine Without <http://www.hearttech.com/books_and_videos.html> a License? The Story of the Linus Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease, by Owen Fonorow and Sally Snyder Jewell _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
