[Felvtalk] Ember

[Lance]

It looks pretty bad. Her wbc has gone down to 2.2 from 3.0 last Thursday, which may mean crashing. Her HCT was the same as it was last week. The vet is consulting with the vet school to try to decide if surgery to extract the FORL is a good idea with the white count that low. If we don’t extract, I don’t know what else to do.

On May 26, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Marsha <martia at lynxe.com> wrote:

> FORLs (Feline Odontoclastic Resorptive Lesion) can be very painful.  Two things to try:  some fresh-picked tender shoots of lawn grass (not sprayed with ANYTHING), a finger of whipped cream cheese or other non-meat item that is soft.  These items aren't especially nutritious, but if it makes her happy...
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> One odd thing I've noted with non-FeLV+ cats with a FORL, or that just had dental work, for some reason they want crunchy treats?! I wouldn't go with a hard treat like Greenies, but something a little less so, like Catnip Tempatations crunchies, or maybe a healthy type crunch treat from the vet.
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> Marsha
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> On 5/26/2014 5:03 PM, Lance wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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