OK, I don't have good news. 
I ran through the basic numbers with my vet. The hematocrit being too low to register is not some kind of thing with a cut-off with the system. IDEXX is great equipment. With the information I gave him, he says he guesses that her PCV (packed cell volume, similar to the hematocrit just measured slightly differently) would be 6. And yes, that means her hematocrit would be about the same. He says they could run a PCV instead of a hematocrit, but if she's that anemic, they wouldn't have wanted to draw more blood to run the test differently.
If she's eating (which she is), it'll help keep her going if her bone marrow is working (I didn't read him the reticulocytes & such, he was in the middle of seeing a patient, though the only real way to know for sure is to do a bone marrow aspiration, which we did for Tuxedo - but he needed the blood transfusion to HAVE the bone marrow aspiration done).
And as long as she's eating, the pet tinic and vitamin B-12 shots might also help keep her going for a little while, but unless you spend some time figuring out WHY she's anemic... she won't keep going for very long.
NOW - if the blood is coagulated when they run the test, you can get wrong readings. However, if her gums are white, she probably is as anemic as it sounds.
If I remember the beginning of the thread correctly - she wasn't completely riddled with parasites, right? These are numbers that can result from fleas in kittens - but not usual with adult kitties.
Of course all of this is couched with the disclaimer that he hasn't seen the cat or the bloodwork information, let alone the complete blood work information (I read it to him over the phone).
But he thinks that if you want kitty to count on more than a miracle (his words, not mine), you need to consider a blood transfusion to buy her a little time while you work with your vet to figure out why she's anemic.
I told him money is a concern. (It is with us too, but we give them so much business with our rescue work, they give us discounts on what they can and they let us pay over time. Some vet practices will accept Care Credit, and you may want to consider looking into that). He said that it probably wouldn't hurt to give her doxycycline even though her white blood cell count doesn't indicate there's a problem with infection - Tuxie's didn't indicate that either, but his hematocrit went up every time he was on antibiotics. The theory is that he had some type of parasite they couldn't detect that the antibiotics killed.
But don't encourage play, try to keep her as "restful" as possible, make sure she stays hydrated (boiled chicken water (nothing added, just plain) really helps us when we have a kitty that's sick and needs to stay hydrated, though many people administer Sub-Q fluids at home), and help her eat as much as possible while you decide how to proceed.
I ran through the basic numbers with my vet. The hematocrit being too low to register is not some kind of thing with a cut-off with the system. IDEXX is great equipment. With the information I gave him, he says he guesses that her PCV (packed cell volume, similar to the hematocrit just measured slightly differently) would be 6. And yes, that means her hematocrit would be about the same. He says they could run a PCV instead of a hematocrit, but if she's that anemic, they wouldn't have wanted to draw more blood to run the test differently.If she's eating (which she is), it'll help keep her going if her bone marrow is working (I didn't read him the reticulocytes & such, he was in the middle of seeing a patient, though the only real way to know for sure is to do a bone marrow aspiration, which we did for Tuxedo - but he needed the blood transfusion to HAVE the bone marrow aspiration done).
And as long as she's eating, the pet tinic and vitamin B-12 shots might also help keep her going for a little while, but unless you spend some time figuring out WHY she's anemic... she won't keep going for very long.
NOW - if the blood is coagulated when they run the test, you can get wrong readings. However, if her gums are white, she probably is as anemic as it sounds.
If I remember the beginning of the thread correctly - she wasn't completely riddled with parasites, right? These are numbers that can result from fleas in kittens - but not usual with adult kitties.
Of course all of this is couched with the disclaimer that he hasn't seen the cat or the bloodwork information, let alone the complete blood work information (I read it to him over the phone).
But he thinks that if you want kitty to count on more than a miracle (his words, not mine), you need to consider a blood transfusion to buy her a little time while you work with your vet to figure out why she's anemic.
I told him money is a concern. (It is with us too, but we give them so much business with our rescue work, they give us discounts on what they can and they let us pay over time. Some vet practices will accept Care Credit, and you may want to consider looking into that). He said that it probably wouldn't hurt to give her doxycycline even though her white blood cell count doesn't indicate there's a problem with infection - Tuxie's didn't indicate that either, but his hematocrit went up every time he was on antibiotics. The theory is that he had some type of parasite they couldn't detect that the antibiotics killed.
But don't encourage play, try to keep her as "restful" as possible, make sure she stays hydrated (boiled chicken water (nothing added, just plain) really helps us when we have a kitty that's sick and needs to stay hydrated, though many people administer Sub-Q fluids at home), and help her eat as much as possible while you decide how to proceed.
Play happily over the bridge, Sadie, whole and healthy again! 
