[Felvtalk] Bogey's checkup today - bad results

[Amani Oakley]

Sherri, half the battle is keeping her eating. As long as she is eating, you are ahead of the curve. I really don't like the low platelet count but nothing else in the bloodwork is very alarming right now. Were there clots in the sample? Did they do a slide count? See if your results have anything at the bottom about the recheck they did for the low platelets.

Keep Bogey eating, as much as possible. Use things like tuna water or tuna juice from tuna cans, to keep her hungry. Get Kentucky Fried Chicken for her (without the covering!). 

You are doing very well for your little girl. I'm glad your vet isn't giving up, and neither should you or Bogey. 

I'm crossing my fingers for you that the Doxycycline helps. Frankly, though, he shouldn't have waited to get bad news. At least he is willing to try it now.

Amani 

-----Original Message-----
From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Sherri Godschalk
Sent: October-26-16 6:44 PM
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Bogey's checkup today - bad results

Hi Amani. I did feel very happy that he agreed to the Doxy. Maybe the fact that the current regiment was clearly becoming ineffective made him think we needed to add something. He is going to look into Interferon for her and I am going to research that this evening as I have only seen it mentioned here and there. He isn't giving up and I am awfully glad about that because I am nowhere near ready. I don't think Bogey is ready either.

Sherri

On 10/26/16, 1:59 PM, "Felvtalk on behalf of Amani Oakley"
<felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org on behalf of aoakley at oakleylegal.com>
wrote:

>Hi Sherri
>
>Yes, some of the results are worse (especially the platelets) but the 
>retic count is actually up a bit. I hope that adding the Doxycycline 
>might help.  The haematocrit and red cells are down, but nowhere as low 
>as I have seen them in cats with FeLV, so there is a lot of cushion 
>still there. The best piece of news is that she is eating and drinking 
>and gaining weight.
>
>Amani
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf 
>Of Sherri Godschalk
>Sent: October-26-16 12:59 PM
>To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
>Subject: [Felvtalk] Bogey's checkup today - bad results
>
>Just a bit of information regarding Bogey¹s last lab results. She had 
>been sleeping a lot and not as active so this really didn¹t surprise me.
>Everything has taken a down turn.
> 
> 
>  
>	Range		26-Oct	30-Sep
>RBC	6.54	12.2	2.54	2.9
>HCT	30.3	52.3	14.8	17.9
>HGB	9.8	16.2	5.2	6.2
>MCV	35.9	53.1	58.3	61.7
>MCH	11.8	17.3	20.5	21.4
>MCHC	28.1	35.8	35.1	34.6
>RDW	15	27	24.5	25.2
>RETIC	3	50	89.9	82.1
>WBC	2.87	17.02	13.05	12.01
>NEU	1.48	1.029	3.97	3.96
>LYM	0.92	6.88	7.8	6.81
>MONO	0.05	0.67	1.16	1.17
>EOS	0.17	1.57	0.11	0.06
>BASO	0.01	0.26	0.01	0.01
>PLT	151	800	28	53
>
>
>The only bit of good news is the doc did start her on Doxycycline twice 
>a day. So she is going to be on that and Prednisolone and Stanzolol. I 
>also give her Petinic twice a day and am going to add Lysine. I hope 
>that the Doxy isn¹t arriving too late to help.
>
>Bogey is not suffering. She is eating, drinking and gaining weight, 
>although just a little, playing once in awhile. She is hiding now which 
>she never did before. My heart hurts today.
>
>Thanks for listening.
>
>Sherri
> 
>
>
>
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