Re: [Felvtalk] LTCI Response

2008-11-28 Thread Amber Gilewski
Christy, I'm so sorry to hear about your little Gray Kitty! When our cat Parker died earlier this month, I found out about LTCI afterwards. I wondered if I would have known about it sooner if I could have given him this medicine to help him. He was severely anemic towards the end with no red

Re: [Felvtalk] Thank you everyone!

2008-11-28 Thread Christy Buchin
Amber, We have been using LTCI on our little Gray Kitty. However, since his diagnosis on September 6 of this year, the disease has progressed to his bone marrow. At this point we are not sure if anything will help him. We have not run into another situation such as ours. We took in a stray

Re: [Felvtalk] ELISA & IFA

2008-11-28 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Update: Well, MaryChristine is dead right when she says the "...experts can't agree". My vet called me back in response to my request for a serum ELISA and said he has *never* had a problem with using whole blood (though he'll be happy to do serum if that's what's wanted). So basically he's at

Re: [Felvtalk] Thank you everyone!

2008-11-28 Thread Amber Gilewski
I just wanted to thank everyone who posted in response to my "LTIC/Imulan & Losing Kitties" message. Your support and well wishes were wonderful and encouraging! Others who don't know much about FeLV can have some interesting responses sometimes. I had one of my neighbors come over to feed ou