Re: Cotton visit to new vet
Hi Michelle: I live north of Houston, TX. The vet clinic where I took Cotton is called Just Cats. Sandy - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:17 AM Subject: Re: Cotton visit to new vet Where are you located? Michelle
Re: Cotton visit to new vet
I also know what a relief that can be :) N Nina wrote: Sandy, How wonderful that you and Cotton have found a good vet! I know what a relieve that can be. It's great that they have an Internist in the office. Hugs and headbutts to you and your babies, Nina Dudes wrote: Cotton's much anticipated visit to the new vet was a great experience. This vet agreed with me that Cotton's immediate health was the first concern. He got his fecal and his ears checked. He got his ears cleaned, and he was found to be loaded with spirochites sp(?), and he was given a course of Metranidazole. She agreed that the next step was getting the IFA, and a baseline cbc, and a basic metabolic panel to evaluate his general health. I told her that since I started him on the L-Lysine (that Jen suggested!-THANK YOU!) _his lymph nodes are actually smaller_. She took this as a positive sign, and said that with good supportive care, he may continue to fight off the FeLV, but wanted to make sure we knew that his life expectancy was uncertain. She was happy to prescribe Interferon, and even apologized for not mentioning it before I did! She told me she is going to discuss Cotton's case with her senior vet, who is a cat internist, who is at a week long symposium, to make sure that she isn't missing anything and to come up with a testing schedule for my other cats. I learned too, that she herself has 6 cats of her own, and she felt like if she was presented with this situation herself, she might be inclined to proceed as I have. I was so put at ease by knowing that she thinks like this. I couldn't ask for a better visit. I feel so much better about our little Cotton-ball. :) We got him out of there just as he was starting to eye the tops of the cabinets over the sink. So naughty, but we love him so much. Thank you all for being so helpful with advice. Sandy
Re: Cotton visit to new vet
Sandy, How wonderful that you and Cotton have found a good vet! I know what a relieve that can be. It's great that they have an Internist in the office. Hugs and headbutts to you and your babies, Nina Dudes wrote: Cotton's much anticipated visit to the new vet was a great experience. This vet agreed with me that Cotton's immediate health was the first concern. He got his fecal and his ears checked. He got his ears cleaned, and he was found to be loaded with spirochites sp(?), and he was given a course of Metranidazole. She agreed that the next step was getting the IFA, and a baseline cbc, and a basic metabolic panel to evaluate his general health. I told her that since I started him on the L-Lysine (that Jen suggested!-THANK YOU!) _his lymph nodes are actually smaller_. She took this as a positive sign, and said that with good supportive care, he may continue to fight off the FeLV, but wanted to make sure we knew that his life expectancy was uncertain. She was happy to prescribe Interferon, and even apologized for not mentioning it before I did! She told me she is going to discuss Cotton's case with her senior vet, who is a cat internist, who is at a week long symposium, to make sure that she isn't missing anything and to come up with a testing schedule for my other cats. I learned too, that she herself has 6 cats of her own, and she felt like if she was presented with this situation herself, she might be inclined to proceed as I have. I was so put at ease by knowing that she thinks like this. I couldn't ask for a better visit. I feel so much better about our little Cotton-ball. :) We got him out of there just as he was starting to eye the tops of the cabinets over the sink. So naughty, but we love him so much. Thank you all for being so helpful with advice. Sandy
Re: Cotton visit to new vet
Where are you located? Michelle
Cotton visit to new vet
Cotton's much anticipated visit to the new vet was a great experience. This vet agreed with me that Cotton's immediate health was the first concern. He got his fecal and his ears checked. He got his ears cleaned, and he was found to be loaded with spirochites sp(?), and he was given a course of Metranidazole. She agreed that the next step was getting the IFA, and a baseline cbc, and a basic metabolic panel to evaluate his general health. I told her that since I started him on the L-Lysine (that Jen suggested!-THANK YOU!) his lymph nodes are actually smaller. She took this as a positive sign, and said that with good supportive care, he may continue to fight off the FeLV, but wanted to make sure we knew that his life expectancy was uncertain. She was happy to prescribe Interferon, and even apologized for not mentioning it before I did! She told me she is going to discuss Cotton's case with her senior vet, who is a cat internist, who is at a week long symposium, to make sure that she isn't missing anything and to come up with a testing schedule for my other cats. I learned too, that she herself has 6 cats of her own, and she felt like if she was presented with this situation herself, she might be inclined to proceed as I have. I was so put at ease by knowing that she thinks like this. I couldn't ask for a better visit. I feel so much better about our little Cotton-ball. :) We got him out of there just as he was starting to eye the tops of the cabinets over the sink. So naughty, but we love him so much. Thank you all for being so helpful with advice. Sandy
