[Felvtalk] Update on Harley & Brock

Kelley S moonvine at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 23:25:45 CDT 2015


I'm so sorry.  There is a good Yahoo feline heart disease group.  I lost my
Missy to heart disease.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Marsha <martia at lynxe.com> wrote:

> Harley has been with me 4.5 years, since he was a kitten of almost 4
> months old, FeLV+ since then.  Brock was adopted as a companion for Harley
> 7 months ago, after Harley's FeLV+ buddy Milkdud died last May.
>
> Harley was diagnosed with cancer in the middle ear & jaw area in March,
> and he had one palliative radiation treatment at the end of March.  He was
> supposed to get his 2nd treatment a few days later, and the tumor had grown
> just enough that he could not be intubated. No anesthesia = no radiation
> treatment.  The tumor is causing some pressure behind his right eye, and is
> pressing on the inner ear also, causing balance issues sometimes.  He gets
> meloxicam and buprenorphine (extended release) every 3 days, and this keeps
> him comfortable enough to eat (soft food & liquid), groom a little, roll
> over for belly rubs, and once in a while bat a toy, scratch on his Turbo
> Scratcher with the light-up ball, or rub his nose on a catnip toy.
>
> Brock gave me a shock.  I took him in for a voracious appetite without
> gaining weight, and itchiness around the head and neck, thinking maybe
> hyperthyroidism.  Blood work showed potential kidney issue, urinalysis the
> same, high blood pressure.  An ultrasound was scheduled to look at the
> kidneys, and everybody was surprise to find he had free fluid in his
> abdominal area.  110 cc of chyle was drawn off, needle aspirations taken of
> kidney and liver.  Almost certainly lymphoma, they thought.  Cytology came
> back negative for that, and he went to see a cardiologist and get an
> echocardiogram.  Final diagnosis:  restrictive cardiomyopathy with
> congestive heart failure.  He is only 4-5 years old.  He does not look or
> act like anything is wrong, and the physical exam never suggested he had
> that pleural effusion in there.  Now he is on 4 heart meds, and a potassium
> supplement.  The pleural effusion is under control for now, but I've been
> told this kind of cardiomyopathy is the worst of 3 kinds.
>
> Marsha, Harley, & Brock
>
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