It seems you are on the right track and keeping his feedings small will help also. I know my Harley who is not sick, just gulps down too much at one time and then up chucks has to get small amounts to prevent that. I also have a pot of lemon grass for the cats to munch on when their stomachs are upset. With all he has going on, he has a lot on his plate to deal with and other than the right medications, the greatest gift you can give him i love. mWill keep both of yu in my prayers.
---- Rachel Dagner <rdag...@novahrc.com> wrote: > My cat Tucker was throwing up his food. We went to the vet and got an X-ray > which showed a mass in his chest. I brought him home with steroids but he > still couldn't keep food down probably the mass was restricting the food > from passing through since he was just regurgitating it right back up. Then > he totally quit wanting to eat. Went to the vet and got high calorie > emergency food and a syringe , watched a video on how to do it on YouTube. I > was syringe feeding him for several days, I was doing some research and saw a > lot of great reviews on Life Gold I had it sent over night from Amazon. I got > it yesterday and gave him his two doses. Today he is eating on his own and > eating quite a bit of the emergency food and even his dry food that I > crunched up small. No regurgitation after all day of eating. I am only giving > him a small amount each hour of so as not to upset his stomach, or overwhelm > him. Maybe you can try syringe feeding and/or the liquid gold. I hope it is > not lympho ma > , I cried for three days straight after the X-ray. I am getting vitality > science cat cancer kit, I am not going to put him through chemo. I hope to > extend his time and his quality of life. He is also more perky and acting > like himself again after just one day on Life Gold. I pray it continues! > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Marsha <mar...@lynxe.com> wrote: > > > > My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn. He has been doing really > > great, and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year anniversary of > > being diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and Congestive Heart > > Failure. Only 20% of cats with that diagnosis make it to the one year > > mark. Brock is on 5 heart meds and 2 supplements, and has been doing > > great. About 2 weeks ago, his appetite seemed to be a little off. > > Sometimes he would eat all his food, sometimes not. He occasionally > > catches a mouse that gets into the garage, so I wondered if he was full > > when I brought his dinner. This past Saturday, he was really fussy about > > taking his pills. He has always been really good about eating his pill > > pockets, no hassle for me, no dropping them into his mouth. Now he is > > balking at taking them even after I dip them in wet food (and they are > > already in pill pockets). I coax and coax, and have had to manually pill > > him a few times. He will eat 4 and leave 1, then I have t o > give that one manually. Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1. Now he wants > baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later. He gets his > supplements mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to eat > his food to get it. > > > > He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam. The vet confirmed > > the enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there were enlarged > > nodes in the back leg area also. Brock's PCV is only 18%, meaning he is > > anemic. It is non-regenerative. A needle aspiration was done on a lymph > > node, and the cytology should be back tomorrow. My biggest fear is > > lymphoma, and it's going to tear through like a wildfire. > > > > Marsha > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
