and I need any opinion or advice I can get at the moment..
:small history:
Lone is 16 and is an indoor cat with the occasional 20 minute sojourn to the outside to make sure it's still there.
:the now story:
Lone got the F3 vacc on Friday (it's Sundary evening atm), coincidentally, within 2 hours of getting her home and bopping the kitten (Spaz) on the head, she started plodding or wobbling instead of strutting or walking like normal. A couple of months ago, she had started getting small tremors in her front legs when doing her statue impression sitdown and being the feline mom that I am, figured this may be due to her age even though she is usually a very active elder cat. I also asked the vet to do a full bloods panel as well.. to check her liver and kidney function etc, which really should be done with an elder cat. (all fine except very slight lowering of white blood cells) - in fact, the vet called it a boring lab result.
She's never had any form of reaction to any vacc prior to now, not even when getting the full work over prior to relocating to another country.
So anyway, she starts plodding or wobbling in the hindquarters within two hours of getting home, this got progressively worse over the course of the following two or three hours, enough that I called the vet on her cell phone to ask for advice and to provide feedback etc... always welcomed by any vet.
Vet advised to monitor her progress as it may just be a 24 or 48 hour reaction thing. Lone was and is not depressed, has no lumps at the injection site and was still eating and drinking normally for a cat on kibble.
I start monitoring her when she's awake (active cat with frequent snoozes). I then go to work - working evenings and finishing at midnight, I ask my flatmate to keep an eye on her, which would have happened anyway, but I was worried.
Turns out rightly so... flatmate calls my team leader and requests I call home immediately. I do so. (This is now approx 8 hours after vacc). Lone is now unable to walk without falling over and does not seem to have conscious or unconscious use of her forelimbs, resulting in a very very big stagger and no bendy-the-knee/wrist prior to falling flat on her face.
By the time I get home 2 hours later (we placed a page to the vet and had no response, then booked an appt with the emergency hospital) and get her to the hospital, Lone is able to hold her head upright and look around and be alert as usual, just no movement in her forelimbs or hindlimbs.
Emergency Hospital Vet checks her out, takes her history etc... theorises that Lone may have a lesion in her brain and/or something wrong with her cervical spine (between shoulderblades to head basically). So we leave her there at approx 11.45pm for x-rays and more bloods to check other things as well.
Vet advises this is a VERY unusual event for a f.catus as usually spinal problems occur with only the hindlimbs etc.
X-rays show thinner than normal discs between her cervical spinal thingies (yes I'm now forgetting words) which could have been the cause of the initial trembling noted a couple of months ago. Of more concern is the loss of use of the front legs and finding out why.
I've now gone through literally hundreds of searches of online Vet hospitals, websites and whathaveyou and have yet to find anything like this noted anywhere around the world. Of course, this doesn't mean it has never occured, just that it has never appeared on the net yet (that I could find in english anyway).
Does or has anyone heard of something similar before?
I'm now looking at getting Lone to go through a myelogram, MRI and 'cat' scan (yes I giggled at that one) to see if there's anything in brain or spine that didn't show up in x-rays... she's an elder cat as I've mentioned, so I'm not too keen on putting her through more stress than necessary, especially as elder animals tend to not react too well to anaesthetics and etc...
umm.. thoughts?
:small history:
Lone is 16 and is an indoor cat with the occasional 20 minute sojourn to the outside to make sure it's still there.
:the now story:
Lone got the F3 vacc on Friday (it's Sundary evening atm), coincidentally, within 2 hours of getting her home and bopping the kitten (Spaz) on the head, she started plodding or wobbling instead of strutting or walking like normal. A couple of months ago, she had started getting small tremors in her front legs when doing her statue impression sitdown and being the feline mom that I am, figured this may be due to her age even though she is usually a very active elder cat. I also asked the vet to do a full bloods panel as well.. to check her liver and kidney function etc, which really should be done with an elder cat. (all fine except very slight lowering of white blood cells) - in fact, the vet called it a boring lab result.
She's never had any form of reaction to any vacc prior to now, not even when getting the full work over prior to relocating to another country.
So anyway, she starts plodding or wobbling in the hindquarters within two hours of getting home, this got progressively worse over the course of the following two or three hours, enough that I called the vet on her cell phone to ask for advice and to provide feedback etc... always welcomed by any vet.
Vet advised to monitor her progress as it may just be a 24 or 48 hour reaction thing. Lone was and is not depressed, has no lumps at the injection site and was still eating and drinking normally for a cat on kibble.
I start monitoring her when she's awake (active cat with frequent snoozes). I then go to work - working evenings and finishing at midnight, I ask my flatmate to keep an eye on her, which would have happened anyway, but I was worried.
Turns out rightly so... flatmate calls my team leader and requests I call home immediately. I do so. (This is now approx 8 hours after vacc). Lone is now unable to walk without falling over and does not seem to have conscious or unconscious use of her forelimbs, resulting in a very very big stagger and no bendy-the-knee/wrist prior to falling flat on her face.
By the time I get home 2 hours later (we placed a page to the vet and had no response, then booked an appt with the emergency hospital) and get her to the hospital, Lone is able to hold her head upright and look around and be alert as usual, just no movement in her forelimbs or hindlimbs.
Emergency Hospital Vet checks her out, takes her history etc... theorises that Lone may have a lesion in her brain and/or something wrong with her cervical spine (between shoulderblades to head basically). So we leave her there at approx 11.45pm for x-rays and more bloods to check other things as well.
Vet advises this is a VERY unusual event for a f.catus as usually spinal problems occur with only the hindlimbs etc.
X-rays show thinner than normal discs between her cervical spinal thingies (yes I'm now forgetting words) which could have been the cause of the initial trembling noted a couple of months ago. Of more concern is the loss of use of the front legs and finding out why.
I've now gone through literally hundreds of searches of online Vet hospitals, websites and whathaveyou and have yet to find anything like this noted anywhere around the world. Of course, this doesn't mean it has never occured, just that it has never appeared on the net yet (that I could find in english anyway).
Does or has anyone heard of something similar before?
I'm now looking at getting Lone to go through a myelogram, MRI and 'cat' scan (yes I giggled at that one) to see if there's anything in brain or spine that didn't show up in x-rays... she's an elder cat as I've mentioned, so I'm not too keen on putting her through more stress than necessary, especially as elder animals tend to not react too well to anaesthetics and etc...
umm.. thoughts?