Thank you, I appreciate that more than you know, we need all the prayers we can get.
Marsha please go online and read the reviews on Life Gold for Cat Cancer on Amazon and Pet Wellbeing, the latest post is Felv+ owner who has his babies on it just to prevent cancer. If you get it on Pet Wellbeing they offer a 90 day money back guarantee, so you don't really have anything to lose. If it gets Brock to eat and boosts his immune system, brings down the lymph nodes, that can only be good. Of course discuss with your vet since he is on other medications. Have you tried crushing his pills and dissolving them in a syringe of water? That is what I do for pills. And maybe you could put his food in a syringe with the potassium and give it that way? I am praying for you that it is not lymphoma, but if it is you will have someone on here who is going through it too. A little on Tucker. He is only two and a half years old, I brought him home as a stray from work. I have had him one and a half years. In that time we have gone through urinary infections, emergency catheters, and two PU surgeries that give him a wider opening so he doesn't block, the first surgery his opening closed completely, the second surgery left him with a very small opening, and it takes him a while to get his urine out. He can't have the surgery again because they have stretched the urethra really far. So after over $8,000.00, the constant fear of a blockage, and much stress and pain for both of us the new cancer diagnosis has been a big blow for me. I am very lucky I can bring him to work with me, he is sitting right in front my keyboard as I type this purring away, thankfully oblivious to all of his Mommy's fears, concerns and heartache. -----Original Message----- From: dlg...@windstream.net [mailto:dlg...@windstream.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 11:55 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Cc: Rachel Dagner Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update 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 lymphoma , 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 to > 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.o > > rg > > _______________________________________________ > 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
