kathryn
February 14th, 2010, 10:00 PM
Hey everyone... a little over a month ago my cat Tessie tested FIV after she suddenly got sick. It's been a back and forth battle for her. The first round of antibiotics helped her a fair amount, but she got sick again as soon as we finished them. I took her to my vet (not the shelter) on Tuesday and he put her on 10 days of Orbax and is having me continue with the eyedrops I got from the shelter- tobramycin.
She's doing okay, but this seems to be an ongoing problem. Her eye boogers are mostly gone but she's sneezing all the time and just in general doesn't seem to feel so great. My mom asked my vet for a life expectancy but he's not giving her too long. He feels that she's likely had this for a long, long time (basically from birth or as a young kitten from what I gather) and since the shelter didn't test her- which i wasn't totally aware of- having gone unrecognized for so long she is now fully symptomatic. Sort of like how HIV progresses to AIDS, well I think that's what has happened to my poor cat.
So, in perspective she is not horribly dying or suffering immensely, but at what point do we say that's enough. It's just a regular URI, but if she can't even fight that off with an even stronger medication and not to toot my own horn but under the care of a professional, erm, sick/disabled cat carer?
:shrug: It's kinda like Timmy all over again. Something so simple turns out to be something terrible. And now I'm stuck in fricking hospice situation again.
CAN MY CATS PLEASE STOP DYING? I swear the sick/defective/disabled cats find me. They always do. And really, yes I'm happy to help but it's getting to be too much. I'm spending so much time taking care of my sickly pets these past couple months that I've basically not had any time to see my friends. I don't want to come off as heartless, but now with Tessie I just can't figure out what to do, and it's frustrating.
She's doing okay, but this seems to be an ongoing problem. Her eye boogers are mostly gone but she's sneezing all the time and just in general doesn't seem to feel so great. My mom asked my vet for a life expectancy but he's not giving her too long. He feels that she's likely had this for a long, long time (basically from birth or as a young kitten from what I gather) and since the shelter didn't test her- which i wasn't totally aware of- having gone unrecognized for so long she is now fully symptomatic. Sort of like how HIV progresses to AIDS, well I think that's what has happened to my poor cat.
So, in perspective she is not horribly dying or suffering immensely, but at what point do we say that's enough. It's just a regular URI, but if she can't even fight that off with an even stronger medication and not to toot my own horn but under the care of a professional, erm, sick/disabled cat carer?
:shrug: It's kinda like Timmy all over again. Something so simple turns out to be something terrible. And now I'm stuck in fricking hospice situation again.
CAN MY CATS PLEASE STOP DYING? I swear the sick/defective/disabled cats find me. They always do. And really, yes I'm happy to help but it's getting to be too much. I'm spending so much time taking care of my sickly pets these past couple months that I've basically not had any time to see my friends. I don't want to come off as heartless, but now with Tessie I just can't figure out what to do, and it's frustrating.