[Felvtalk] Brock update

[Rachel Dagner]

Thank you for the suggestion on the Metoclopromide, I will ask my vet
about it next time we go in, or if his symptoms come back before that, he
is on a 2 week steroid shot right now. He received it Monday, after the
short acting one he got last Friday.

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From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of
Amani Oakley
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:35 PM
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

Rachel, for what it's worth, I agree with Margo. The odds are that the
steroids kicked in because they will (a) reduce the inflammation and (b)
make him feel better (peppier) and thus he will be more interested in
eating. Another suggestion is to get him on metoclopromide which helps
increase peristaltic action, empty the stomach and move the food along the
intestinal tract.

Amani

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From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of
Rachel Dagner
Sent: April-27-16 10:36 PM
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Brock update

My cat Tucker was throwing up his food. We went to the vet and got an
X-ray which showed a mass in his chest. I brought him home with steroids
but he still couldn't keep food down probably the mass was restricting the
food from passing through since he was just regurgitating it right back
up. Then he totally quit wanting to eat. Went to the vet and got high
calorie emergency food and a syringe , watched a video on how to do it on
YouTube. I was syringe feeding him for several days, I was doing some
research and saw a lot of great reviews on Life Gold I had it sent over
night from Amazon. I got it yesterday and gave him his two doses. Today he
is eating on his own and eating quite a bit of the emergency food and even
his dry food that I crunched up small. No regurgitation after all day of
eating. I am only giving him a small amount each hour of so as not to
upset his stomach, or overwhelm him. Maybe you can try syringe feeding
and/or the liquid gold. I hope it is not lymphoma
   , I cried for three days straight after the X-ray. I am getting
vitality science cat cancer kit, I am not going to put him through chemo.
I hope to extend his time and his quality of life. He is also more perky
and acting like himself again after just one day on Life Gold. I pray it
continues!

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> On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Marsha <martia at lynxe.com> wrote:
>
> My sweet FeLV+ boy Brock has taken a bad turn.  He has been doing
> really great, and only a week and a half ago celebrated his 1 year
> anniversary of being diagnosed with Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and
> Congestive Heart Failure.  Only 20% of cats with that diagnosis make
> it to the one year mark.  Brock is on 5 heart meds and 2 supplements,
> and has been doing great.  About 2 weeks ago, his appetite seemed to
> be a little off.  Sometimes he would eat all his food, sometimes not.
> He occasionally catches a mouse that gets into the garage, so I
> wondered if he was full when I brought his dinner. This past Saturday,
> he was really fussy about taking his pills.  He has always been really
> good about eating his pill pockets, no hassle for me, no dropping them
> into his mouth.  Now he is balking at taking them even after I dip
> them in wet food (and they are already in pill pockets).  I coax and
> coax, and have had to manually pill him a few times.  He will eat 4
> and leave 1, then I have to
 give that one manually.  Or eat 2, and I have to give him 1.  Now he
wants baby food, but only eats some of it, then more later.  He gets his
supplements mixed with his food, 1 of which is potassium, so he needs to
eat his food to get it.
>
> He had a blood panel done yesterday and a physical exam.  The vet
confirmed the enlarged lymph nodes I felt in his neck, and said there were
enlarged nodes in the back leg area also.  Brock's PCV is only 18%,
meaning he is anemic.  It is non-regenerative.  A needle aspiration was
done on a lymph node, and the cytology should be back tomorrow.  My
biggest fear is lymphoma, and it's going to tear through like a wildfire.
>
> Marsha
>
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