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<div>Hi Bob,</div>
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<div>Thank you for the update on Gilbert!</div>
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<div>There hasn't been much in the way of messages in the group - hoping this is a good thing.</div>
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<div>Kat (Mew Jersey)</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 10:28 AM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "ROBERT CHAPEL" <bchapel@optonline.net><br/>
<b>To:</b> felvtalk@felineleukemia.org<br/>
<b>Subject:</b> [Felvtalk] Checking in.....</div>
<div name="quoted-content">Things have been very quiet on the group lately...OR... I am once again not getting group mail....<br/>
Has there been activity I've missed??<br/>
My Hospice Boy ( Gilbert) is doing quite well for the moment but ( as we all know with such things it could change any minute...so I'll just enjoy it while it's happening).... Wondering if any of you have experience with Higher dose Prednisolone administered chronically ( say above 7.5 mg QD)... When I agreed to Foster Gilbert it came with the proviso that I would follow their directions ( Which I will hold to unless I feel they are killing him unnecessarily quickly) His Tumor does not appear to have gotten any larger and his pain appears to be pretty well controlled.... Just wish I knew specifically what is helping the most so I could cut down on superfluous drugs....currently he's on Gabapentin( .4 cc BID if pain is up.. QD if doing OK).. for pain, prednisolone ( 10 mg QD administered via syringe dissolved in milk, Venus Fly Trap SubQ BID ( interesting substance... bears closer scrutiny... supposed to have anti tumor activity) Two other " alternative " medications which I have suspended only because the poor boy screams bloody murder every time I have to give him something..... with a tumor invading his oral cavity I want to keep anything PO to a minimum....<br/>
Seems that the cats I've had that are _ supposed_ to ( clincally) die don't and the ones that that aren't ..do<br/>
Hope everyones buddies are doing reasonably well ( as reasonably well as FeLV Kitties can do)... Gilbert, as I mentioned, had a traumatic brain injury which has left him with poor balance... but lately he's been insistent on expanding his range and even tried running this AM... Wasn't in anything resembling a straight line but the spirit in this guy is enough to make you weep... Guess that's part of why I am such a fan of animals.... they simply do what they have to and do it without complaint ( Sure glad they can't speak...perhaps I'd like them less if their inner thoughts were more like ( Why ME?? I'm a more thoughtful caring cat than Mittens over there; why did _ I_ have to get hit by a car and THEN get cancer!!... and there's that jerk Mittens running around all carefree and happy...where's the Justice I ask you!!!!)...<br/>
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Bob<br/>
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Bob
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