[Felvtalk] Ember

Lance linimon at fastmail.fm
Wed May 28 12:28:58 CDT 2014


I’ll ask the vet about a tube. I’m willing to try anything, as long as it doesn’t just prolong her life without raising her quality of life back to near-normal.

On May 28, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Marsha <martia at lynxe.com> wrote:

> I've no idea about the WBC, but seems like surgery would not be a good thing to do at this time.  You might consider an NG tube to get nutrition into her.  I have done that with 2 cats (Milkdud being the second), and it works great. Is she on a pain medication?  Seems like the absolute biggest worry, though, is that WBC.  I'm looking at Harley's right now, and it was 12.54 on Friday, smack in the middle of normal...this particular machine counts 5.5 as the low end of normal.  I have no experience with the low WBC, just hope you can find something fast enough to boost it.  Prayers for Ember........
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> Marsha
> P.S. - I did have a cat with a FORL that didn't seem to bother him that much, and it didn't affect appetite.  Could depend on the location.
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> On 5/28/2014 11:41 AM, Lance wrote:
>> 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.
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