<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Hi Elizabeth,</div><div>I had commented a couple of times on your Facebook posts on the Felv+ Owners page.</div><div>How has your cat been feeling since the transfusion? Has he been able to sustain any energy, appetite and such after his transfusion? </div><div>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 “Please be higher”.</div><div>My point being they can rebound from the anemia. I don’t 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.</div><div>Sherri</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Felvtalk <<a href="mailto:felvtalk-bounces@felineleukemia.org">felvtalk-bounces@felineleukemia.org</a>> on behalf of Liz McCarty <<a href="mailto:emccarty44@gmail.com">emccarty44@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> <<a href="mailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org">felvtalk@felineleukemia.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 1:39 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> <<a href="mailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org">felvtalk@felineleukemia.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [Felvtalk] My baby recently diagnosed with FeLV<br></div><div><br></div><p dir="ltr">Hi everyone, </p><p dir="ltr">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. </p><p dir="ltr">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. <br><a href="http://www.gofundme.com/2mzdpgk">http://www.gofundme.com/2mzdpgk</a></p><p dir="ltr">Mainly looking for support and advice. Thank you in advance. </p><p dir="ltr">Elizabeth McCarty, ASW #36438</p>
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