With Callie's weird stools, I don't feel it would be lymphoma. More likely, if
it happens on a schedule, as you said every few weeks, it's environmental. Does
your mom have the house cleaned with something that Callie could inhale or
ingest? Does she buy different cat foods for the cats? Maybe run out of one cat
food, buy another every few weeks? Check out things like that.
Well, I'm not a big fan of testing any more. My poor Bunny was tested when she
was brought to me and was positive for FeLv. I kept her more than the required
time, retested and she was negative. We all cheered. She lived with me a little
under a year from then. She came as an 8 month old teen, was spayed and given
the rabies vaccine. Stayed healthy after her retest until October of this year.
Then she just faded. She stopped playing, stopped being a silly nuisance to
Delilah and Samson and finally stopped eating. I took her to the vet because I
noticed her gums looked pale. Not flea anemia. He retested her and she was
positive for FeLv. He explained that maybe the first test was a false negative
or maybe the virus was lurking in the bone marrow as well as the regular place
in the blood. He gave her a vitamin shot, gave her anti-biotic shot and she
seemed to rally for a couple of days, ate a bit, then on Oct. 31 she just lay
down in the bed I made for her
on the floor and passed away. So, tests are just that - tests but they are not
crystal balls and can't predict what will happen to a cat in the future when it
comes to FeLv. Bunny would have been two years old in April, 2014. On the other
hand, Moses, who overcame the positive FeLv diagnosis and turned negative, is
still with me after 7 years.
On Sunday, December 15, 2013 5:10 PM, Lance <lini...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
The bite seems to be about the same as it was yesterday, though maybe a little
less red where the actual teeth penetration occurred. Fortunately, no pink
lines are other odd marks have showed up near the wound. I didn’t go to the
clinic, since things look like they’re doing well. My health has been a little
funky for the last six months, but I feel like my immune system is in
reasonably good shape.
>
>Anyway, some of you may remember that my FeLV+ (Ember) probably bit an FeLV-
>(Callie) who hasn’t been vaccinated since her kitten days seven years ago.
>Callie, who was almost definitely FeLV- before this encounter, tested negative
>at 37 days post-exposure, but she wasn’t retested at the usual 90 day mark.
>She’s my mom’s cat, and my mom is reluctant to test. I think she just doesn’t
>want to know. While I understand that, the anxiety from not knowing
>occasionally really gets to me, and there are things we could do for Callie to
>prolong her life, despite what my parents seem to think.
>
>Callie has had bouts of diarrhea since the encounter. I don’t know if she had
>anything like this before it, as I didn’t really pay close attention to that
>aspect of her life. She had frequent runny poops in June and July (around the
>time of the negative FeLV test), then the frequency went down, **as far as I
>know and have been told**.
>
>Since around August, the runny poops hit daily for one to three days every
>three to four weeks. Again, this is from what I can gather. Earlier today,
>Callie had a normal poop, but in the same bowel movement, there was some
>watery stool on top of the normal stuff. If she’s positive, what could this
>be, other than lymphoma? If she ISN’T positive, then what might this be? Very
>odd that it happens every few weeks.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lance
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