Bailey has a bone marrow aspirate because we couldn't find any reason
for his anemia, it showed the virus was active and was destroying his
new blood as fast as it was being produced and there were precancerous
cells there, we could never find were the suspected cancer was and after
he passed and a necropsy was done it was pancreatic cancer. We put him
on prednisolone, iron, and epogen and reversed his anemia. His HCT was
at 20%, went down to 18% by the time I got the epogen, went to 15% the
first tow weeks while on it and then started going up. It got up to 40%
and we lowered the epogen dose from 3 times a week to once a week. When
he passed his HCT was at 33%, normal and he had been on the epogen for
about 5 months, without it he would have died months before.
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