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Hello All, I'm looking for experience with people who had a similar diagnosis. I thought we'd have 5 more years with her so this has been a huge shock to both myself and my husband.
2 months ago I took my little lady in for vomiting and she was very constipated. A week later we had to rush her to the ER because she was vomiting again and wasn't defecting. She was mostly blocked with a lot of gas. They did not sedate her for either of the enemas.
Finally got her on some miralax and tried to make her more active. Bloodwork showed some slight elevations in kidney values so decided to watch for signs of renal disease. I planned to take her in for another exam after the holidays to check all was well.
Since that week we'd fluctuated with her eating ok and not eating ok and I had the trial period of figuring out how much miralax to give her. About 3 weeks ago I stopped the miralax and she was having some normal looking BM.
Finally had some ok stool but we were struggling to get her to eat consistently. She was always eating dry food but would be picky with her wet food so assumed it was just preference.
On 12/24 I noticed a decrease in eating beyond just not interested in the food. On 12/27 she hadn't eaten at all so I called the vet and got her seen on 12/28. They did xray and bloodwork and xray didn't show constipation and bloodwork came back with very low platelets and high WBC count. Decided to do an ultrasound and they found her lymph nodes and large color were very inflamed (no specific lumps found). From all that information they're suspecting she has lymphoma. She'd normally fluctuate between 8 - 8.5 lbs but this visit she was 6.9 lbs.
My option were to do exploratory surgery (see what's inflamed and get a biopsy) or start her on steroids and see if she responded. Started the steroids last night (12/29)
She hasn't wanted to eat on her own so I've been syringe feeding her, she has weakness in her back legs but is walking around and still jumping up and down on furniture (have made her some make shift stairs to help her). Right now my plan is to give her the week on steroids and if we see improvement, continue taking it day by day. However, I haven't been able to get her to pur for the last 24 hours and I'm worried that she's in a lot of pain.
Introduce my little lady:
In August of 2005 We found a little kitten about 2.5 weeks old in a box behind a bakery. The staff said someone dropped the box off and they weren't sure what to do. Adopted her immediately (obviously) and she almost died of coccidia in her first few weeks of life but made it through. Fast forward a few years later when my family had a hybrid vehicle she decided to sleep in the driveway in a blind spot and got ran over because she couldn't hear the vehicle and no one saw her (one of the reasons we always honk now to move vehicles). Ran away and it took hours to find her but I was the person who did.
Given that we found her at such a young age I believe I definitely imprinted on her but I've always been her person. It wasn't until I left for college that she really started talking to the rest of my family. Growing up my parents let her sleep inside with me at night (she was indoor / outdoor because we had a FIV+ cat inside and didn't want him mingling with our other cats. plus he was a jerk to them lol). She's always been an indoor cat at heart and has been very comfortable living in an apartment with us for the last year and a half.
2 months ago I took my little lady in for vomiting and she was very constipated. A week later we had to rush her to the ER because she was vomiting again and wasn't defecting. She was mostly blocked with a lot of gas. They did not sedate her for either of the enemas.
Finally got her on some miralax and tried to make her more active. Bloodwork showed some slight elevations in kidney values so decided to watch for signs of renal disease. I planned to take her in for another exam after the holidays to check all was well.
Since that week we'd fluctuated with her eating ok and not eating ok and I had the trial period of figuring out how much miralax to give her. About 3 weeks ago I stopped the miralax and she was having some normal looking BM.
Finally had some ok stool but we were struggling to get her to eat consistently. She was always eating dry food but would be picky with her wet food so assumed it was just preference.
On 12/24 I noticed a decrease in eating beyond just not interested in the food. On 12/27 she hadn't eaten at all so I called the vet and got her seen on 12/28. They did xray and bloodwork and xray didn't show constipation and bloodwork came back with very low platelets and high WBC count. Decided to do an ultrasound and they found her lymph nodes and large color were very inflamed (no specific lumps found). From all that information they're suspecting she has lymphoma. She'd normally fluctuate between 8 - 8.5 lbs but this visit she was 6.9 lbs.
My option were to do exploratory surgery (see what's inflamed and get a biopsy) or start her on steroids and see if she responded. Started the steroids last night (12/29)
She hasn't wanted to eat on her own so I've been syringe feeding her, she has weakness in her back legs but is walking around and still jumping up and down on furniture (have made her some make shift stairs to help her). Right now my plan is to give her the week on steroids and if we see improvement, continue taking it day by day. However, I haven't been able to get her to pur for the last 24 hours and I'm worried that she's in a lot of pain.
Introduce my little lady:
In August of 2005 We found a little kitten about 2.5 weeks old in a box behind a bakery. The staff said someone dropped the box off and they weren't sure what to do. Adopted her immediately (obviously) and she almost died of coccidia in her first few weeks of life but made it through. Fast forward a few years later when my family had a hybrid vehicle she decided to sleep in the driveway in a blind spot and got ran over because she couldn't hear the vehicle and no one saw her (one of the reasons we always honk now to move vehicles). Ran away and it took hours to find her but I was the person who did.
Given that we found her at such a young age I believe I definitely imprinted on her but I've always been her person. It wasn't until I left for college that she really started talking to the rest of my family. Growing up my parents let her sleep inside with me at night (she was indoor / outdoor because we had a FIV+ cat inside and didn't want him mingling with our other cats. plus he was a jerk to them lol). She's always been an indoor cat at heart and has been very comfortable living in an apartment with us for the last year and a half.