[Felvtalk] My baby recently diagnosed with FeLV

Liz McCarty emccarty44 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 12:39:46 CDT 2016


Hi everyone,

Looking for support, suggestions, and information. I've never had a cat
with FeLV. We took our 1 year old, Hodor, to the vet because he seemed
lethargic and in his stool there was a piece of floss that was red. At the
vet things escalated and they told us he was severely anemic and would need
a transfusion that day. I took off work and rushed him to a specialist. The
vet there told us she would run an FeLV test before doing anything in case
we wanted to avoid the extra tests and procedures. She told us he was FeLV
positive and persistently talked to me and my fiance about euthanizing him
which was out of the question for us. I took him to the vet thinking it was
going to be minor and then she's talking to me about killing him! We went
forward with the blood transfusion. It's been almost 3 weeks now. They had
him on doxycycline  in case there was a bacterial cause, and prednisone.
Last week he started interferon... Does anyone have experience with that
and know if it was effective? I also started him on Pet Tinic.   Any other
suggestions? Any insight into whether you think he will be able to pull
through? He doesn't have cancer, they ran the tests but don't know if it's
in the bone marrow.  I'm scared. We have another one year old, unrelated,
and they are best friends. It breaks my heart to think they might be
separated. She's not FeLV positive.

Additionally I have set up a go fund me to help with the costs we incurred,
and I want to donate half to FeLV research if anyone is interested.
http://www.gofundme.com/2mzdpgk

Mainly looking for support and advice. Thank you in advance.

Elizabeth McCarty, ASW #36438
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