[Felvtalk] Update on Harley & Brock

[dlgegg at windstream.net]

tHAT SEEMS TO MUCH TO BEAR. PROBLEMS FOR ALL 3.  i HAVEN'T LOST ANYONE FOR 2 YEARS.  i AM BLESSED .  i WILL PRAY FOR YOU AND YOURS.
---- Jennifer Lewis <blondediet at mac.com> wrote: 
> Oh My. Peace to you and your kitty kids
> On Apr 28, 2015, at 9:25 PM, Kelley S wrote:
> 
> > 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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