Thank you all for your help so far. Well I got some bad news and kinda some good news this morning.
Good news is I don't have to put her down but bad news is that she only has 50/50 chance of living. The vet is going to keep her
-My cat has Leukemia ;( I have to think she got infected with it sometime in the rescue shelter or was born with the virus from her mom. She is a houscat and has no other companion cats to infect her with the virus. Either way i'm freaking out after reading this article:
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/brochures/felv.html
I'm scared because she couldn't have contracted this virus (according to that cornell article) anytime in the past 2 years. She was born 2 1/2 years ago and we adopted her after she had been in the shelter for a few weeks at minimum. Which would mean this virus has been in her body a long time now because she has never interacted with other cats since she left that shelter. She's the only cat in our house.
-We're not exactly sure about her liver yet but the vet said she had higher numbers than normal for her liver after looking at the blood test. He said if she makes it through this 2-3 days of treatment then we will still need to address her liver problem.
Looking at the description and symptoms of Feline Leukemia it seems like the symptoms are very similar to FHL. Does anybody know a place where I can find info on Leukemia? I read somewhere that she still wont be able to live more than a year or 2 if she has Leukemia...I don't want her to suffer through 1-2 more years if she is going to eventually lose out to this Cancer. I don't want her internal organs to just be a 'ticking time bomb' that could give out on her at any month but at the same I would like to keep her alive as long as possible. She's so young. Thank you for your help everybody.
I'm andrew btw, nice to meet you all. Quincy is my cats name. She is really unlucky to get all these diseases. She is not even 3 years old and somehow could have contracted Leukemia AND probably FHL? She doesn't deserve this. I'm so dumb, I should have checked her better and realized something was wrong earlier...I'll update once I talk to vet again today. Maybe he can explain how long she will be able to live if she somehow beats the odds.
Good news is I don't have to put her down but bad news is that she only has 50/50 chance of living. The vet is going to keep her
-My cat has Leukemia ;( I have to think she got infected with it sometime in the rescue shelter or was born with the virus from her mom. She is a houscat and has no other companion cats to infect her with the virus. Either way i'm freaking out after reading this article:
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/brochures/felv.html
I'm scared because she couldn't have contracted this virus (according to that cornell article) anytime in the past 2 years. She was born 2 1/2 years ago and we adopted her after she had been in the shelter for a few weeks at minimum. Which would mean this virus has been in her body a long time now because she has never interacted with other cats since she left that shelter. She's the only cat in our house.
-We're not exactly sure about her liver yet but the vet said she had higher numbers than normal for her liver after looking at the blood test. He said if she makes it through this 2-3 days of treatment then we will still need to address her liver problem.
Looking at the description and symptoms of Feline Leukemia it seems like the symptoms are very similar to FHL. Does anybody know a place where I can find info on Leukemia? I read somewhere that she still wont be able to live more than a year or 2 if she has Leukemia...I don't want her to suffer through 1-2 more years if she is going to eventually lose out to this Cancer. I don't want her internal organs to just be a 'ticking time bomb' that could give out on her at any month but at the same I would like to keep her alive as long as possible. She's so young. Thank you for your help everybody.
I'm andrew btw, nice to meet you all. Quincy is my cats name. She is really unlucky to get all these diseases. She is not even 3 years old and somehow could have contracted Leukemia AND probably FHL? She doesn't deserve this. I'm so dumb, I should have checked her better and realized something was wrong earlier...I'll update once I talk to vet again today. Maybe he can explain how long she will be able to live if she somehow beats the odds.