[Felvtalk] FW: Michael's last hope

[Amani Oakley]

Terri

I feel horrible for you. My heart hurts, from the other side of the world.

Amani

From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Terri Knight
Sent: February-17-17 10:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Michael's last hope

So my last email I sent a few days ago didn't seem to go through as it needed to be moderated due to its size. I attached a pic of the blood test results which clearly the system didn't like. This was my email:

Update.

So Michael was first put on Epo a few weeks ago due to the suggestions of specialists that my vet contacted, he was not on it for long as the vet could see it was not working. I then organized to get Winstrol for him, he started it on 1 February but due to his blood count being super low he had to have a second transfusion on 3 February to give the Winstrol a chance to work. He is still on Doxy as far as I know and cortisone. He visited the vet yesterday (14 Feb) with this update: his red blood cells are still dropping, but his platelets are up and the vet said he had a bit more colour in his mouth and tongue, he has lost a bit more weight and was running a slight temperature so his medrol (not sure what that is) was upped for 3 days, back to the vet on 17 Feb. So kind of mixed results but still not looking good with the red blood cell production.

Unfortunately his latest test results shows a decline again, his red blood cells went from 10.42% on Tuesday to 8.18% on Friday and there is nothing more that can be done. At his current rate of decline he will reach critical levels by Monday.

My parents and I (but mostly my parents since I'm on the other side of the world) have to make a heartbreaking decision of when it's time for Mikey. The vet says that when he reaches 6% he will be feeling terrible and to add to this he has no more energy he just lies down in one spot all the time.

It is with a heavy heart and tears in my eyes that I have accept his fate on top of being so far away from him.

Terri

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