From:  Laura Fenik <Laura@LogicalInsight.net>
Date:  02 Mar 2020 09:35:25 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/sci.engr.biomed
Subject:  

%Need advice regarding kidney disease and non-regenerative anemia for feline

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_Looking for advice on how to help our beloved Victoria (white cat). She 
was recently diagnosed with the beginning stages of kidney disease and 
non-regenerative anemia. We've been giving her subcutaneous fluids at 
home.

Can the kidney disease and non-regenerative anemia be stopped, or slowed 
down?

See this link to an article I posted to our LogicalInsight.net website 
about Victoria's health: 
http://logicalinsight.net/house/healingpurrrsneeded.html

Victoria Needs Healing Purrrs!

Sweet Victoria has been very sick. She recently had her second blood 
transfusion. The diagnosis is that Victoria is at the earliest stages of 
kidney disease, has non-regenerative anemia, and a slight heart murmur.

We?ve made several trips from Johnstown to Pittsburgh, PA, to a 
specialty veterinary care animal hospital. Victoria has had enough of 
needles, syringes (including for feeding at times), probings, and having 
her fur shaved, meow!!
Currently the cause of Victoria?s non-regenerative anemia is not known. 
A bone marrow biopsy may pinpoint this. We?ve not done this yet as we 
understand it to be a painful process but we are thinking about it and 
need to do more research. We want to ensure that Victoria?s quality of 
life is improving and not stressful for her.

We?ve been giving Victoria subcutaneous fluids at home (Ringer?s lactate 
solution) as she is dehydrated. This helps her feel better, keep pumping 
those fluids! Plus a drug to stimulate red blood cell growth, an 
appetite stimulant, and other important medications. Victoria dropped 
down to 7.35 pounds (from around 10 pounds a little over a year ago) 
within a short period of time.

Victoria lived with my parents and brother in West Virginia before our 
parents passed away. My family wanted a white cat as our father was 
mostly blind in his later years (he had 10% of his vision and could see 
white). Victoria is our angel kitty and much loved family member. We?ve 
been blessed to have her in our lives and want her to be with us for 
many more years.

Please send lots of healing Purrrrs to Victoria! If you can provide any 
insight on how the kidney disease and non-regenerative anemia can be 
halted (if that?s possible) or helped, please contact me. Victoria 
meowwws her thanks in advance!