[Felvtalk] Bogey's Progress
dlgegg at windstream.net
dlgegg at windstream.net
Wed Feb 12 12:34:27 CST 2020
Thank you for sticking with her and giving her a chance to live. We need to educate vets that all deserve a chance to live.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sherri Godschalk <skgodschalk61 at gmail.com>
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
Sent: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:55:51 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Felvtalk] Bogey's Progress
Good afternoon everyone. I was a pretty active person on this board when
my new stray kitten Bogey was diagnosed as FELV+ in 2016. We had a rough
go of it the first six months and you all were very helpful and kind and
I can't thank you enough for that. The information was invaluable. I
have become ill myself since that time so I fell off the planet for a
bit but I wanted to take a moment to let you know about my girl.
Bogey is doing very well. 8/2016 - 1/2019 she had been taking 1mg of
Winstrol (half of a capsule) and a half of a Prednisilone. (sp) I also
treated her with a series of Doxy (7 days) once every 3 months. These
dosages seem low but anything higher made her liver very sick and she
was only barely 5 pounds initially.
When I took her for her biannual Chem 17 test 1/2019 ALL of her levels
were completely normal. She has gained about 3.5 pounds and has really
thrived. She went almost 4 months last year without the need of any kind
of treatment. Her numbers dropped a bit last in November, just the low
side of normal and but very low platelets. So she is getting just the
Winstrol 4 times a month. I will know next week at her checkup if that
needs to be increased. My vet says that this is not uncommon in the
winter months...hibernation/longer nights/colder temps.
So here we are. I am so thankful that we found a vet willing to try to
save her by prescribing these meds for her. She was failing so fast that
I know she would have been gone years ago. Nothing felt as good as
sending her blood test results and a photo of her to our original vet
that said she should be destroyed because there were "plenty of other
healthy cats that need homes".
Best to all.
Sherri & Bogey
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