Oh My. Peace to you and your kitty kids On Apr 28, 2015, at 9:25 PM, Kelley S wrote:
> I'm so sorry. There is a good Yahoo feline heart disease group. I lost my > Missy to heart disease. > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Marsha <mar...@lynxe.com> wrote: > Harley has been with me 4.5 years, since he was a kitten of almost 4 months > old, FeLV+ since then. Brock was adopted as a companion for Harley 7 months > ago, after Harley's FeLV+ buddy Milkdud died last May. > > Harley was diagnosed with cancer in the middle ear & jaw area in March, and > he had one palliative radiation treatment at the end of March. He was > supposed to get his 2nd treatment a few days later, and the tumor had grown > just enough that he could not be intubated. No anesthesia = no radiation > treatment. The tumor is causing some pressure behind his right eye, and is > pressing on the inner ear also, causing balance issues sometimes. He gets > meloxicam and buprenorphine (extended release) every 3 days, and this keeps > him comfortable enough to eat (soft food & liquid), groom a little, roll over > for belly rubs, and once in a while bat a toy, scratch on his Turbo Scratcher > with the light-up ball, or rub his nose on a catnip toy. > > Brock gave me a shock. I took him in for a voracious appetite without > gaining weight, and itchiness around the head and neck, thinking maybe > hyperthyroidism. Blood work showed potential kidney issue, urinalysis the > same, high blood pressure. An ultrasound was scheduled to look at the > kidneys, and everybody was surprise to find he had free fluid in his > abdominal area. 110 cc of chyle was drawn off, needle aspirations taken of > kidney and liver. Almost certainly lymphoma, they thought. Cytology came > back negative for that, and he went to see a cardiologist and get an > echocardiogram. Final diagnosis: restrictive cardiomyopathy with congestive > heart failure. He is only 4-5 years old. He does not look or act like > anything is wrong, and the physical exam never suggested he had that pleural > effusion in there. Now he is on 4 heart meds, and a potassium supplement. > The pleural effusion is under control for now, but I've been told this kind > of cardiomyopathy is the worst of 3 kinds. > > Marsha, Harley, & Brock > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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