RE: Gary's anemia treatment

2005-02-22 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
Title: RE: Gary's anemia treatment Hideyo I'm so sorry to hear about your tragic loss of Suzi last summer. You did what you thought (and what every one of us has done) was the right thing. You had no way of knowing it would go so badly wrong  (none of my cats ever want to go to

RE: Gary's anemia treatment-- Hideyo

2005-02-17 Thread catatonya
L PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julie JohnsonSent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:55 AMTo: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgSubject: Re: Gary's anemia treatment-- Hideyo   Dear Hideyo,   Michelle is so right; there is no way you could have known this would happen.  Any surgery car

RE: Gary's anemia treatment-- Hideyo

2005-02-17 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Gary's anemia treatment-- Hideyo   Dear Hideyo,   Michelle is so right; there is no way you could have known this would happen.  Any surgery carries a risk to a susceptible animal; the trouble is, you can't always identify a s

Re: Gary's anemia treatment-- Hideyo

2005-02-17 Thread Julie Johnson
Dear Hideyo,   Michelle is so right; there is no way you could have known this would happen.  Any surgery carries a risk to a susceptible animal; the trouble is, you can't always identify a susceptible animal.   I had a (seemingly) healthy adult female spayed and she had to be recussitated; her pre

Re: Gary's anemia treatment-- Hideyo

2005-02-17 Thread Lernermichelle
Hideyo, I am so sorry that happened. All of us have gotten all our cats spayed and neutered. I don't think any of us would have thought, or have ever thought, that a spay could kill a cat except that if they are FeLV+ it could trigger the virus-- but I think we even all spay our positives a

RE: Gary's anemia treatment

2005-02-17 Thread Hideyo Yamamoto
have a 2nd chance to take care of her - and you, too, Michelle, you will meet Simon again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:58 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Gary

Re: Gary's anemia treatment

2005-02-17 Thread Lernermichelle
Steroids can save their life, though, if they are having an auto-immune response. And it can greatly improve and lengthen quality of life when they have lymphoma. Michelle In a message dated 2/16/05 11:05:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I really hate the idea of steroids, even if they mak

Re: Gary's anemia treatment

2005-02-17 Thread Lernermichelle
I have really been wishing, now, that Simon was able to get that transfusion the day before he died. he freaked out and needed to be put in an oxygen tent, and they said it could kill him to keep trying or sedate him in his condition. Afterwards I felt horrible that I had even tried. Now I feel

Re: Gary's anemia treatment

2005-02-16 Thread Nina
You know Jill, I couldn't help but notice that Doxycycline was one of the things you put Gary on. I don't like the stuff because of the potential side effects, but it was the only thing I put Grace on the first time she crashed with anemia symptoms and she bounced back, (even though her blood w

Re: Gary's anemia treatment

2005-02-16 Thread Jill Poe
Nina, I know what you mean about trying everything. This was kind of like "Well, she's going to die regardless so let's just try everything, even if it's not necessarily indicated for her exact situation. Maybe something will stick!" I don't mean to sound negative, but we really had little rea

Re: Gary's anemia treatment

2005-02-16 Thread Nina
thanks so much for that. I hope I won't have to refer to it, but I'm filing it, just in caseKerry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jill Poe Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:34 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject

RE: Gary's anemia treatment

2005-02-16 Thread MacKenzie, Kerry N.
rg Subject: Gary's anemia treatment Michelle, here is the progression of Gary's anemia treatment: A couple months ago her blood panel showed an HCT of 31. 2-3 weeks ago she developed a fever and was eating less and less. She was treated for the fever but was weak and lethargic and her n

Gary's anemia treatment

2005-02-16 Thread Jill Poe
Michelle, here is the progression of Gary's anemia treatment: A couple months ago her blood panel showed an HCT of 31. 2-3 weeks ago she developed a fever and was eating less and less. She was treated for the fever but was weak and lethargic and her nose got ghostly pale - that's wh