More FeLV tests today, I'm nervous:(

Good Morning everyone:

I'm about to take Lucas and Nena to the vet to test them for FeLV (Feline leukemia) and I'm so nervous! I just hope they are negative. Lucas was negative las year, but Nena has never been tested and my Baddy is positive.

I'm just praying and praying. I will know the results at 4pm, the vet keeps them both there so he can sedate then to take the blood and then he keeps then until they wake up.

I will give you all an update later.

Tamar

Thank you so much

Thank you so much Ms Freya! I hope times flies, I'm so anxious to know. They told me to go at 4pm. I just need my babies to be ok .

Thank you all so much. I'm off the the vet, it is almost 4pm'. I will tell you all the results as soon as i get back.

I just got back from the vet with my two babies Nena and Lucas and I'm happy to say they both tested negative for Feline Leukemia!!!! Im so happy and relieved!'

They were all together so if they didn't get it I think they must be inmune, but the bvet told me to keep them apart from Baddy, who is positive. That is so sad, but I will do it. I still have to take Flaqui and Fuzzy to be tested next week.


Thank you all for your words of support

Thank you soo much Carolina, I was so worried, specially for Lucas, my poor boy wouldn't be able to handle both Lupus and Leukemia.

Thank you all so much Now I feel hopefull that the others could be negative too. And of course I will always take super special care of my positive baby Baddy.

i'M HAPPY MY VET SEDATES MY CATS FOR TESTING. MY CATS DON'T REALLY NEED SEDATION, THEY ARE SUPER NICE, WELL BEHAVED AT THE VET, BUT HE DOES IT BECAUSE HE SAYS HE DOESN'T WANT TO TURTURE THEM, AND i PREFER IT THAT WAY. TODAY, MY KITTIES ARE HAPPY AND PLAYING.

i ASK ABOUT THE TEST AND HE TOLD ME HE CAN DO IT AND SEND IT TO THE US AND IT IS EXPENSIVE. i WILL THINK ABOUT IT.

HE TOLD ME THE BEST THING TO DO IS JUST KEEP THEM SEPARATED FROM THE OTHER CATS AND HE TOLD ME NOT TO GIVE LUCAS THE fELv VACCINE BECAUSE WITH HIS LUPUS AND ALL IT IS A RISK. aD LONG AS i KEEM THEM SEPARATED THEY WON'T HAVE THE VACCINE.

Our vets don't have the same medicines and equipment your vets in the Us and other countries have, believe me , if there was other way I would do it.
In fact, this is the only vet in my area who does FeLV tests.

I don't even know what Emla cream is, we don't have that here. My kities are nice at the vet, but once thety start taking the blood they do suffer.

My vet tried to do the test without sedation to Princess who was severely anemic and she started screaming, it was painful to her, I don't know how your vets take blood from your kitties , but here they take it from the veins in the neck. They shave the neck and then they take the blood, it is very scary for my kitties, so that is why I prefer sedation over nothing.

Is not that they give them a lot, just enough to keep them calm and when I go pick them up, they are just fine, My vet is a very nice compasionate vet and I have no problem with him.

I completely understand what you are saying and I respect that 100%, and if there was other way I would do it. I don't have a choice at all. I personally don't like to see my kitties being held by force to have their necks shaved and then seeing them cry while the vet take blood from their neck.

I love my kitties and I'm trying to do what is best for them,, believe me, here in Puerto Rico we don't have as many advances in pet care as you do in other countries. I'm lucky this vet is so good and loving to animals and I try to get infromation online to understand Lucas Lupus and I"m doing everything i can for Baddy and his FeLV.

Please don't judge me if you don't know what is like here in Puerto Rico. I can't even get the alpha interferon Lucas needs for his Lupus because they don't sell it here anymore. I can't get Natual food for Lucas because they won't ship it to Puerto Rico. he has to eat Purina One or Science diet (yuck). I'm fighting like crazy to keep my kitties healthy.

Don't think I don't care about my kitties, I do so much.

I think is just a light sedative because I don't have to fast them.

Well is like I said, he is the only vet that does the test and that is the way he does it. he takes the blood from the neck, I have no other choice. The other choice would be to just not test them and let them all get leukemia. I'm trying my best.

Anyway, I should have just told everyone I had my kitties tested and I shouldn't have give all the details, I thought the way my vet did it was the normal way to do it.

I just like posting here because I'm new at this Leukemia thing and I like to learn all I can from all of you.

The test my vet does includes FIV, FeLV and heartworm.

Well, Yes, I understand, it was scary at first for me too, but I guess I think he knows what he is doing , you know?

I just been under so much stress this week, and then I see that people are telling me I'm not doing what's right for my kitties it hurts a lot.

I didn't fast them, he never asked me to, in fact they both ate the night before. That is why I'm guessing it was a light sedative. he keeps them until they are fully alert, but I don't think they were fully asleep. I just used the term "wake up", but I don't think it was a full anesthetic he used.


Anyway, them important thing is they are ok, I will ask him more questions about the way he does the test, to see if i have more options, i need to have Baddy restested in a couple of months.