You and Jake are in my prayers. He's come through rough times before. He
strong and determined. Lots of love and healing vibes your way.
Laurie
-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy A. Schmall <schmall@comp.uark.edu>
To: felvtalk@MailingList.net <felvtalk@MailingList.net>
Cc: katseven@pcsia.com <katseven@pcsia.com>
Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: Jake
>Hi all,
>Thank you so much for your kind messages of thoughts and prayers! They
>are so important to me and help me through these bad times.
>
>As you know, we took Jake to an oncologist/internist in Tulsa yesterday.
>She did a chest x-ray and ultra-sound. Her conclusions were these
>regarding his aggressiveness (and more or less, his lethargy): 1) from the
>ultra-sound it looked to her
>like when his platelets were real low, blood may have leaked into his
>bladder causing pain--he *had* a urinalysis a couple weeks ago,and my vet
>found nothing. The internist said she'd talk to my vet about possibly
>repeating the test--until then I could use Hills C/D diet even though if
>they found some different crystals in the urine, it might mean a different
>diet. The C/D wouldn't hurt, but it may not help; (2) behavior problems
>stemming from being pilled twice each day, and going to the vet monthly
>for immunoregulin shots--he may just have *had* it; (3) a brain tumor
>which could be detected by a catscan which could be done by a neurologist
>in Missouri. If it's a brain tumor, it could probably be removed
>surgically. This option I've completely ruled out. I won't subject Jake
>to the stress of even going to a neurologist, much less having surgery.
>If he were otherwise healthy, I would probably do it, but with his low
>platelets . . . the way it is, we'll be lucky to have him around many more
>months. She did say if the aggression continues, we could try feliway or
>something else.
>
>With all this, I decided to switch to C/D and start feeding Jake Iam's wet
>food and mix in home-made protein (chicken, egg, yolks, liver, etc). I
>also decided to cut back to once a day medicine and only the necessary
>stuff with *one* another item (right now it's vit.c. and thymus in one
>capsule). I won't bring him in to have monthly immunoregulin shots unless
>his mood improves. I'll try subq at home *if* it doesn't stress him to
>give him a shot (I have my doubts).
>
>I'm subtly trying to work healthy things that he will eat and drink into
>his diet, i.e. putting aloe vera juice into the water, mixing his
>interferon with liver, which he loves (making sure it's only 10% of his
>diet).
>
>He'll have to stay on the prednisone, which I hate--but he'll bleed to
>death if he doesn't. I've read where giving it every other day does less
>to suppress his immunity. I'm going to check with the vet and see if we
>could give a double dose every other day. Perhaps a miracle will happen,
>and eventually we can lower the dosage.
>
>Sorry to make this so long. Any suggestions/input would be really
>appreciated. Nancy
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