[Felvtalk] Ember

Katherine K. kathstix at gmail.com
Tue May 27 04:43:42 CDT 2014


Do you have experience with syringe-feeding? Hills A/D or baby food works
best for this. Your vet should have A/D. It's the best way to get calories
into them sometimes. Could also try blended chicken livers.

Thinking of you and Ember. Please keep us posted.

Katherine
On May 27, 2014 4:15 AM, "Lance" <linimon at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Please send healing thoughts, prayers, good vibes, and anything positive
> our way. Ember isn’t doing well.
>
> Just to recap: Ember is a 12 yro FeLV+. She was diagnosed with a
> pericardial diaphragmatic hernia last year. After consulting with several
> vets, I decided not to have the surgery done, as the operation associated
> with that type of hernia (involving the pericardium) is very tricky. Ember
> has had a good quality of life since that time, and I don’t regret the
> decision.
>
> Recently, I had noticed that Ember wasn’t eating as well, but we’ve gone
> through these phases before, and they always resolved. She would eat a lot
> less of her food, and then she’d get back to normal. Unfortunately, as of
> the last few days, she seems to be off food almost completely. It doesn’t
> help that I’ve botched giving her abx and Nutrical, so I think she now
> doesn’t trust anything I might try to feed her.
>
> We went to the vet last week, and Ember’s wbc was very low, even for her
> (3.0). I’ll talk to the vet about LTCI and ImmunoRegulin (I’ve done some
> research into wbc issues), but the main concern was that the vet found an
> odontoclastic resorptive lesion. The vet is fairly convinced that this is
> the cause of the decreased appetite, but Ember has also been wheezing and
> coughing a bit, and the vet thought hairballs might be to blame. I think
> she would like to see if Ember’s wbc doesn’t go back up (as it has in the
> past) before extracting the affected tooth.
>
> Ember seems remote and somewhat listless. She laid on my chest earlier and
> purred some, but again, due to my poor handling of our experiment in
> Nutrical, she’d now rather I jumped in a lake. I’ve tried pretty much
> everything including fresh roast beef, chicken white meat, various kinds of
> cat food, and several treats. She’s eaten very little today. I’ll almost
> certainly be taking her to the vet tomorrow unless something miraculously
> changes for the better in the next sixteen hours.  We’re going to pick up
> some baby food, but I’m open to other suggestions.
>
> Just a week ago, she seemed pretty normal, responding to me as always—just
> eating less. It’s so hard to see them go downhill. I just hope that isn’t
> what this is.
>
> Lance
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