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01-11-2009, 06:43 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sequim, Wa
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| Please send positive thoughts for my kitty! I had my beautiful Himalayan cat at the vet yesterday for his annual exam and shots. He is about 8 years old, my favorite cat. The vet found one enlarged kidney. They did blood and urine tests. Kidney disease is common in Persians and Himalayans. This evening I missed a call from the vet, they want me to call back to discuss the lab results. In the past when labs have been fine, they just leave a message saying so. Now I am very worried. He has not acted sick, no urinary symptoms, no increase in thirst and has not lost one ounce of weight compared to his visit a year ago. Please send positive thoughts our way. I'm not ready to lose this lover boy. Thanks.
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01-12-2009, 03:56 PM | #2 |
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| Good thoughts beaming your way! Keep us posted. |
01-12-2009, 04:23 PM | #3 |
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| I left a message for the vet early this morning, she still has not called back. Thanks.
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01-12-2009, 05:07 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Alabama
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| I am so very sorry that your sweet beautiful kitty is ailing. I will keep him in my thoughts and prayers. It is agonizing to have to wait for lab results. |
01-12-2009, 05:19 PM | #5 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Lancaster, PA. U.S.A.
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| I Love Himalayans. Over my almost 30 years of marriage I've had 8 Himalayans. My very first was a Blue-Lynx pt. named Ember. He passed @ almost 7 yrs. of complete Kidney Failure. That was in 1986. They've found lots of new treatments since then. My others have had no major problems and that's because Vets have found new and better ways to treat them!! I will keep you in my Thoughts and Prayers. Please keep us up to date on your beloved Himmi. Hugs,
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01-12-2009, 06:16 PM | #6 | |
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01-12-2009, 06:23 PM | #7 |
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| hopefully your vet has caught something early and it can be fixed since your baby hasn't shown any symptoms. I will keep your baby in my thoughts
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01-12-2009, 06:35 PM | #8 |
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| All is mostly good! The well wishes worked. The vet just called. NO sign of kidney problems. He has some crystals in his urine, nothing of major concern. One of his white cell counts is a bit low but the vet is not too concerned, will have that re-checked in a month. But NO kidney problems is wonderful news! Sonney gives all of you well wishers major hugs and purrs! Thank you!
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01-12-2009, 06:39 PM | #9 |
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| yeah!!!!!!! I wanna see apicture of this little beauty!
__________________ Mommy of Cody,Gracie,Bella,2labs,1cat, 2 skinkids one Angel Baby Boy 8/8/09 I carried you under my heart for 20 weeks and will carry you in my heart forever |
01-12-2009, 06:43 PM | #10 |
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| Oh I am so glad your kitty is okay! That is great news!!
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01-12-2009, 07:18 PM | #11 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sequim, Wa
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| Here's my baby, the one with a remote was a kitten pic
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01-12-2009, 07:24 PM | #12 |
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| oh SO darn cute! I am so glad to hear that all is well |
01-12-2009, 09:03 PM | #13 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Lancaster, PA. U.S.A.
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| He really is a big beautiful boy!! I'm so glad that he's going to be O.K....He reminds me of my #2 Himmi, Beau, He was a Blue Pt. Too... Hugs to you and Sonney...
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01-13-2009, 12:35 PM | #14 |
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| He is absolutely beautiful! I am so glad to hear that he's just fine. I have a special place in my heart for kitties. Mine had a terrible start in life. She was wild and born in the woods. The lady who owned the house in front of those woods saw them and posted an ad that if anybody could come and get them they could have them. Something told me to go and I was able to catch two of them, my Lily and her brother. I couldn't catch the third. Her brother went to my ex's parents, who put him outside to live and he got hit by a car (which I was VERY upset about ) and my Lily got extremely sick and almost died. She had so many worms in her tiny little body that it blocked her intestines. We finally got her cleared up after days in the emergency hospital. Then she was spayed at 12 weeks and they left a piece of gauze sponge in her abdomen during the spay. She was extremely unique because she only had one ovary and half of a uterus. The vets had never seen this before and I guess they were so amazed that they forgot to take out the piece of sponge. So at 6 months of age she started to get sick and vomit daily but they could never find anything wrong with her. She was staying with my ex (he was my boyfriend at the time) one weekend and he accidently let her outside. She was attacked by another cat within a few minutes and it bit off a huge chunk of her foot and one of her toes. She was taken to the emergency vet and they sewed her up. I took her back to school with me and her foot just kept getting worse. I took her into the vet 5-6 times and they had to do 2 more surgeries, they could not figure out why her foot wouldn't heal. It was majorly infected but no matter what they did they couldn't fix it. They checked her for an array of diseases, everything was negative, but her white blood count was crazy high. Finally one night she got so sick she wouldn't do anything but lay in the floor on her side and throw up. I rushed her in again and they kept her for 3 days. They couldn't get her to eat, let alone keep anything down, and they couldn't figure out what was wrong. The next step was exploratory surgery before she died, and within 2 minutes of opening her up he found the sponge immediately. He said it was imbedded into the inside of her abdomen, almost like a splinter in a human, highly infected and poisoning her whole body. He said it was probably extrememly painful for her, and she was 9 months old at this time. She had been spayed at 12 weeks, so for 6 months she was enduring this pain. That's why her foot woudl never heal up, because her body was busy fighting that infection within her and didn't have anymore left to fight the foot infection. She would have died if they hadn't found it. The vet who left the sponge in (NOT the same one who did the exploratory sugery and was taking care of her at that point) paid her last vet bill, but didn't offer to pay any up to that point. I thought about sueing but I was just glad my baby was finally ok. I know they didn't do it on purpose but it was so upsetting. Now Lily is 4 years old and doing wonderful, but it was a scary first year for her! Last edited by EmrldShdwQueen; 01-13-2009 at 12:36 PM. |
01-13-2009, 04:06 PM | #15 | |
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