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christymexico wrote:I just read about Kitty,,what a lucky cat to have had such a loving Mom and Dad..I know just from your posts how loved she was and I know she felt your love too. I believe they know much more than we think.
Christy

Thank you very much for the kind words.

I would have to agree with you about the vets. It seems they were looking for an obvious problem that any "routine" test would reveal. This wasted time and I have learned a lot from this incident. We live in a rural area, so specialists are hard to come by. We traveled a hour and a half to...

I'm sorry to report my wife and I decided to lay kitty to rest this evening. When we arrived at the specialist's office today her temp was nearly 106*. She was delirious. Nothing in the tests stood out to the specialist. The biopsy revealed no findings other than necrotic tissue. We talked about an ...

I will let you all know what we find out. The histopath didn't come back yesterday liked we hoped, hopefully today. The ER vet seems to think something bacterial but cultures came back negative. She was on antibiotics prior to the culture so that may have skewed the test. I forgot to mention the vet...

We lucked and got an appointment tomorrow with an internal medicine specialist. Have to travel a bit for it but this is our last effort for an answer. Hope she has enough life left to go through this.

Thank you for the reply. Kitty went back to the ER-vet today for some basics. CBC checked: Shows mature neutrophilic leukocytosis overall count 37.6K with 30.7K granulocytes and 4.8 monocytes (whatever that means) Worsening anemia 18.8% platelet count is low but there is significant clumping, platel...

New member here referred to this site from another cat forum. .About a week ago we noticed our indoor/outdoor cat wasn't feeling well. She is 3 years old. Basically she was lethargic and no appetite. Took her to regular vet one evening and he noticed a lump under her jaw closer to the ear. He did a ...