[Felvtalk] My baby recently diagnosed with FeLV

[Sherri Godschalk]

Hi Elizabeth,
I had commented a couple of times on your Facebook posts on the Felv+ Owners
page.
How has your cat been feeling since the transfusion? Has he been able to
sustain any energy, appetite and such after his transfusion?
I am glad you found this board. I was given very good info here after Bogey
was diagnosed. Her IFA was positive and so her bone marrow is affected. Her
RBC was 13 when I took her in. She had stopped playing, eating and was
sleeping all the time. After being on the Prednisone her appetite rebounded.
They also put her on an antibiotic that we have since stopped at the vets
urging and added Stanzolol 2mg once a day. She goes back in tomorrow to see
if her counts are better and I think they will be. Her gums are more pink,
playing some and eating good. I am certain though that she is still quite
anemic. We just need to show improvement with this treatment. I find myself
saying all day today ³Please be higher².
My point being they can rebound from the anemia.  I don¹t know for how long
but I am going to give my cat the best chance at life that I can as I am
sure you will and everyone else on this board does. Some cats can live a
long time with FELV and some just cannot. I wish us all the best of luck.
Sherri

From:  Felvtalk <felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org> on behalf of Liz
McCarty <emccarty44 at gmail.com>
Reply-To:  <felvtalk at felineleukemia.org>
Date:  Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 1:39 PM
To:  <felvtalk at felineleukemia.org>
Subject:  [Felvtalk] My baby recently diagnosed with FeLV


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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