The initial onset of this disease portrayed itself with the pupil
dialating, and gagging in the early part of the morning. When I got up and
massaged her chest I heard a squishy sound(told this to the vet who said he
could not anything wrong with her) HE DID NOT LISTEN TO ME!
NEXT stage of this disease. Her hard breathing became so overt, I was sure
I was going to lose this cat from a cardiac arrest. Of course at this
stage I am totally ignorant of the way this disease progresses.
Back to the Vet. The vet, and he is a good one, who declared first nothing
wrong with her, and then after the blood work, declared she had feline
leukemia, was sick with the flu. The other vet looked her over, and
declared she had FIP, and he put her on a broader anti-biotic, which does
not seem to be doing enough for her. He also put her on a diaretic to
alleviate some of the fluid in the adominal cavity. So there we are.
FIP seems to manufacture many varieties, different strains. So I can see
there is no exact treatment answer here.
Perhaps there is someone out there who has had a cat with similar symtoms,
and may have additional information to give.
Much appreciated if there is......
Daryl Bulkley
Port Townsend, Washington