[Felvtalk] Merlin has gone to the bridge

[dlgegg at windstream.net]

My Annie is positive, age 8 and she gets regular check ups because she is positive.  I have not checked for FELV since her first year with me (4) because she lost her person due to cancer, was locked up in a small trailer for 3 weeks, shoved into a box for the trip to the vet and then in a carrier smelling of other cats for the trip to my house where she had to get used to NOT being an only cat and getting used to new humans.  I think that flipped into FELV since she had not tested positive before that.
The only other positive I had was a feral, had her tail bit off by a raccoon, that I think may have thrown her into positive.  


---- Amani Oakley <aoakley at oakleylegal.com> wrote: 
> Kelley
> 
> My sadness is profound for your loss. My Zander – he of the wondrous response to Winstrol – also finally succumbed at age 7 to a very bad heart. The vet said she had never seen anything so bad, and yet there were no indications of any heart problem for the whole time. My first thought – like you – was that I must have missed something and I even blamed the Winstrol for the dilated cardiomyopathy. I went on line and searched and searched but couldn’t find a link. I suspect now that the virus distorted his heart as part of its pathology. When I read about your Merlin, that seemed to fit with the theory that the virus does this to them.
> 
> Don’t beat yourself up. I couldn’t have been closer to my Zander and my husband and I were doting parents and were constantly with him, but we saw nothing.
> 
> Whenever I lose one of my darling babies, I have to constantly remind myself that if not for me, they would have been out on the street or put down at an early age. If not for me, they wouldn’t have had days of sunshine and happiness and love and nourishment. You know that too.
> 
> Still, it doesn’t ease the pain much, I know.
> 
> Amani
> 
> From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Kelley S
> Sent: September-27-15 3:08 PM
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> Subject: [Felvtalk] Merlin has gone to the bridge
> 
> They say his heart gave out.
> 
> Kelley