Your vet sounds like a keeper. Not charging when I bet you would be willing to pay for the improvements you have seen in Ben. Prayers for continuted success. Dorlis
---- Natasha Hinsbeeck <n.hinsbe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi guys! > > Thank you for all the positive replies - I hope to find out as much as I can > and will let you know as soon as I have the information. It's my vet's > Zapper, I have no idea where he bought it, but I'm seeing him again tomorrow > and I will definitely ask him. As far as the amounts of treatments Ben gets - > my vet started him off on a treatment every day for a week, because Ben was > really sick when my vet came up with this, it was really our last hope. Ben > was so anemic, he just lied on the ground all day, we couldnt get him to eat > or do anything. After his first treatment, when we came home, he polished off > a whole bowl of food, and then ran off to go and play in our garden; he was > really pooped out afterwards, but it was the most activity we've seen from > him in many days. It's pretty much like that after every treatment, where he > has a lot more energy and eats well. The vet now has us coming in every two > days for treatment, and so far all is still well. The > aim is to taper the treatments off to a point where he only needs to go for > 2 treatments a week. I missed one of his treatments this weekend, he was > supposed to go on Saturday, and we could only take him in on Sunday, and it > really didnt look like it made any difference that he missed a day. Ben just > carried on like any other 6 month old kitten. I would also like to mention > that my vet doesnt charge us anything for these treatments. He says it > doesn't take anything from him in terms of expertise or equipment, its really > just needing a wall socket to plug the machine in to, and we do the treatment > ourselves while he carries on with his other patients. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
