Re: Marley Please add to the CLS :(

2008-03-15 Thread MaryChristine
aw, honey-- i am so sorry. you know, tho, i've come to feel that they don't really take pieces of us when they leave. we cry, for ourselves, for what we've missed--but it's because of how much they've given us. and it seems that, once the first horrid pain passes, i find out just how much of each

Re: Bartonella

2008-03-15 Thread MaryChristine
ah, you are right, of course--they are just used interchangeably so often--even by vets--that i just compounded the error. oops. if you go to the main site, www.felineleukemia.org, you'll find a link to the archives, and there you will find us all immortalized in typescript! MC On Sat, Mar 15,

Re: Marley Please add to the CLS :(

2008-03-15 Thread Lance
I'm sorry to hear about Marley's passing. He sounds like a really sweet guy. Thank you for all that you, and the other volunteers at Sid's and Crash's, do. Take care. Lance On Mar 15, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Sherry DeHaan wrote: This is one of the biggest heartbreaks that I have had to deal with

Re: Bartonella

2008-03-15 Thread Amy Weygandt
Just to clarify, my vet said Bartonella and Hemobart are not the same. I did the same thing and said something about Hemobart and she corrected me that they are positive for bartonella, not hemobart. I thought this was just a mail list, not a message board so I'm not sure how to check the archive

Re: Marley Please add to the CLS :(

2008-03-15 Thread Sally Davis
SHerry I am so sorry about Marley . They teach us so much. You are so good to help care for these babies. I know it takes a piece of you whwn they leave. I also know they give you so much. Junior will be there for Marley. Hugs Sally Sherry > > -- > Looking for last

Re: Junior

2008-03-15 Thread Sally Davis
Thanks, This group is the reason Junior had the last year and a half. He thanks you all for that. His quality of life was good up until that last day. Sure he had his share of URI and the corneal ulcer, but all that was treatable. This last thing while maybe treatable would have been very poor qua

Re: Marley Please add to the CLS :(

2008-03-15 Thread Lynne
Sherry, I will light a candle tonight in honor of your dear Marley. I'm so sorry for your profound loss. I'm just so sad for all the losses experienced lately. I sometimes wonder how we all can move on with such damage to our hearts, but we do. Maybe we gain some kind of strength from the ex

Re: Junior

2008-03-15 Thread MaryChristine
oh, sally, i am so sorry to hear this news. i don't really have anything to say that everyone else hasn't said already: junior knew how much you loved him and fought for him, and i truly believe that they don't mind the process involved with leaving this live nearly as much as we do--i think they

Re: Bartonella

2008-03-15 Thread MaryChristine
check the archives, because it HAS been discussed--hemobart is one of those things that seems to really be regional. one of my vets says that in the past five years, a much higher than 50 percentage of cats in this area are testing positive. are the tests just done more often? are they better tests

Re: Marley Please add to the CLS :(

2008-03-15 Thread Marylyn
Bless you all for loving Marley and all the others. On Mar 15, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Sherry DeHaan wrote: This is one of the biggest heartbreaks that I have had to deal with since I started volunteering at Sids.Marley was the most beautiful,handsome,sweet loving black cat that I have ever met.I

Marley Please add to the CLS :(

2008-03-15 Thread Sherry DeHaan
This is one of the biggest heartbreaks that I have had to deal with since I started volunteering at Sids.Marley was the most beautiful,handsome,sweet loving black cat that I have ever met.I know that MANY MANY volunteers are crying today for the loss of our Marley.Every cat that comes into our c

Bartonella

2008-03-15 Thread Amy Weygandt
Hi All, I really haven't been very active on this group over the past couple years so I'm not sure whether this has been discussed or not. I have a young child in my home and this year my vet recommended having my leuk positive cats tested for Bartonella. They are seen every 6 months for full bl