[Felvtalk] Felvtalk Digest, Vol 13, Issue 3

[Korruptakitty]

Hi Marsha, 

I really do feel bad for you, but I want to tell you that there is hope. My Zoh, who has been gone for a few years now, was diagnosed, at the uv l
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davis extension veterinary specialty hospital, with restrict ice 

""00:3 cardiomyopathy, aortic stenosis, pulmonary edema, heart murmur of 3/6

Sealed with a purr......  =^.,^=

~Kat~


***I'm Kat Parker;  I park  cats***

> On Apr 29, 2015, at 10:00 AM, felvtalk-request at felineleukemia.org wrote:
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:47:44 -0500
From: Marsha <martia at lynxe.com>
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
Subject: [Felvtalk] Update on Harley & Brock
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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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