Poor Scarlett

I doubt it is anything to do with it, but Persephone had an allergic
reaction to the dissolvable stitches the vet used when they speyed
her. Is it possible that Scarlett is also having a large allergic
reaction? From what I understand, such reactions are very rare, but
they *do* occur. For what it's worth, Persephone swelled up like a
sore little beachball, was sore and swollen for 2-3 weeks (yes, she
*did* get anti-inflammatories and an antihistamine injection) and then
proceeded to heal up just fine. These days she is a 2 year old
hooliteenkitten.

Regardless, lots of purrs for Scarlett, especially from Persephone who
feels that she's "been there, done that"

Tish

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:03:15 -0600, Cheryl
wrote:

Thank you all for your support and purrs. My little girl is spending
the night at the vets office tonight and I feel just awful about it.
TED doesn't know what it is so she is going to open her up and take
some out for a biopsy, or path report, whatever it is they do to
figure out what it is. It has become larger than it was on
Saturday and she still has a fever.

Howard, thanks for the suggestion on the cyst. I think that was
brought up as a possibility, though TED thinks it is an inflammatory
response to something, but not sure to *what*. I hope the path report
will show something conclusive. The "inflammatory response"
suggestion reminds me of a few weeks ago when she was doing poorly
and had what seemed like a seizure, and her bloodwork (high WBC
counts) looked like an *inflammatory response* to Phil P in health
and behav. I wonder if all of this is related somehow?

Cheryl, I certainly hope you are not losing her, a million plus Purrs coming
for Scarlett, and comforting hugs for you {{{{{{{Cheryl}}}}}}
Jean.P.
Cheryl wrote in message
...
Well, she is still not doing well. I had her to the vet yet *again*
yesterday, and we go back tomorrow. She just will not eat. I've even
resorted to the stinkiest food I can find to tempt her (fancy feast)
but all she can manage is to eat some turkey white meat that I had in
the freezer. Had to syringe feed her Friday night and yesterday until
I discovered the turkey. She has a lump on her side that the vet
aspirated, but it isn't an abscess; there was no pus. Just red cells,
white cells and fat. It is obviously painful to her. Vet gave her a
shot of anti-inflammatory steroid, but is hesitant to go another
round of antibiotics since she's had so many in her short life. She
just wants to sleep on my chest, or on the heated bed, and I rarely
see her eliminating. I feel I'm losing her.


--
Cheryl

Cheryl wrote:
Well, she is still not doing well. I had her to the vet yet *again*
yesterday, and we go back tomorrow. She just will not eat. I've even
resorted to the stinkiest food I can find to tempt her (fancy feast)
but all she can manage is to eat some turkey white meat that I had in
the freezer. Had to syringe feed her Friday night and yesterday until
I discovered the turkey. She has a lump on her side that the vet
aspirated, but it isn't an abscess; there was no pus. Just red cells,
white cells and fat. It is obviously painful to her. Vet gave her a
shot of anti-inflammatory steroid, but is hesitant to go another
round of antibiotics since she's had so many in her short life. She
just wants to sleep on my chest, or on the heated bed, and I rarely
see her eliminating. I feel I'm losing her.

Oh dear! I'm so sorry. Purrs that Scarlett can recover.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.

Cheryl wrote:
Thank you all for your support and purrs. My little girl is spending
the night at the vets office tonight and I feel just awful about it.
TED doesn't know what it is so she is going to open her up and take
some out for a biopsy, or path report, whatever it is they do to
figure out what it is. It has become larger than it was on
Saturday and she still has a fever.

Cheryl,

We shall continue sending purrs that Scarlett pulls through this and
becomes a strong, feisty, hoolikitten. I know how you are feeling right
now and I'm sending hugs to you as well. Let us know as soon as you
hear how she is.

Julie, Hobbes, Selena, Lacey and Sam

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:03:15 -0600, Cheryl
yodeled:

Thank you all for your support and purrs. My little girl is spending
the night at the vets office tonight and I feel just awful about it.
TED doesn't know what it is so she is going to open her up and take
some out for a biopsy, or path report, whatever it is they do to
figure out what it is. It has become larger than it was on
Saturday and she still has a fever.

Howard, thanks for the suggestion on the cyst. I think that was
brought up as a possibility, though TED thinks it is an inflammatory
response to something, but not sure to *what*. I hope the path report
will show something conclusive. The "inflammatory response"
suggestion reminds me of a few weeks ago when she was doing poorly
and had what seemed like a seizure, and her bloodwork (high WBC
counts) looked like an *inflammatory response* to Phil P in health
and behav. I wonder if all of this is related somehow?

Purrs purrs purrs for the little bitty.



Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Oh, I'm so relieved they figured out what it was! Whew! Poor baby
though, that's going to be a rough few days until Saturday. Many
purrs for her and for you.
--
Britta
Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's
covered in fur!
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album



"Cheryl" wrote in message
...
On Mon 17 Jan 2005 11:39:02p, Howard Berkowitz wrote in
rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
):


Assuming that a complete blood count was done, which includes
the white blood cell count, there's usually a "differential",
which gives the percentage of the different types of white
cells. An elevation in the percentage of eosinophils often
suggests inflammation, either allergic, or sometimes parasites.

Thanks for the explanation! Yes, there was a differential listed.
That was what apparently made Phil think it was a sensitivity sort
of response, like an allergen. But, as it turns out, this wasn't
related to whatever was wrong back then. If bloodwork had to have
been done this time, I have no doubt it would come out similar,
though. Turns out that she had a reaction to the subQ sutures from
her spay surgery. Dang, that was 2 weeks ago. I have taken her back
to the vet 3 times since her spay, and I *knew* something was
seriously wrong, yet it took until yesterday to actually do
something. That's when the vet decided she needed to open her up
and find the problem. It sounds weird to me, but maybe you would
understand it, the vet said that inside of the lump didn't contain
pus. But when the lump got bigger, it wasn't aspirated because she
expected the same results so, instead I left her there to have the
exploratory. Under several layers of fat (the normal fat a cat has
on her lower belly, "spay sway" I've seen it called) near the spay
incision there was a pocket of pus. But the lump was on her side,
inches away from the incision. She put a drain tube in her, sewed
her up and here we are now with a draining wound, an ecollar, a
cage and antibiotics. I honestly don't know how I'm going to manage
to keep this ugly drain that is literally draining wildly, without
hurting her until Saturday when it can be removed. |sigh| She is
very ****ed off. Tail swishing like I've never seen before,
especially for such a small cat. She's going to have to spend most
of her time in the cage until Saturday, *with* the ecollar on
because I have to work. And the vets techs said she was already
going after the drain while they had her, so no doubt she'll pull
it out.

The good news in all this is that it is something treatable, and a
diagnosis *was* found, and I sure have been the route in the past
where a diagnosis can't be easily found, and the poor cat has test
after test to find it.

Anyway, I digress. I wish I had looked at her tummy before leaving
the vet so I knew what to expect, but she looks *skinned* where the
drain tubes come out, and it looks *extremely* painful and its
bleeding and dripping and I just feel horrible. They gave her some
pain meds today but didn't send me home with any. I'm going to call
tomorrow and pick her up something to help her out since she has to
live this way until Saturday. She's finally resting after pacing
around the cage and banging the cone all over the place for the
last couple of hours. I covered the cage to keep it dark, and she
figured out to drink water with that damned cone on her head,
thankfully, but eating is going to be rough. |sigh again!!|


I speak from personal experience, with a kind of
cyst cats probably don't get. In my case, for technical reasons,
there was no good way to use a local anesthetic, and (hiss-spit)
the physician didn't give me some morphine first. Nevertheless,
once he cut into me, without warning, the pain of the cyst
itself almost immediately went away.

Ouch, Howard! I'm glad you got some relief from that. Sounds
horrible!

Thank you all who sent purrs for my baby. She's going to be needing
more healing purrs.

--
Cheryl

Poor Scarlett!! Please keep us posted. It is good that you have a diagnosis
though!! Purrs to get you through this strenuous time!!

Cheryl wrote:

Thank you all who sent purrs for my baby. She's going to be needing
more healing purrs.


Poor little Scarlett. At least you know what it is now, and that she
will be fine, but this will be a rough time for you both. Purrs that she
heals nicely and endurance purrs to you, Cheryl. It must be awful to
watch her like this.


--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Cheryl wrote:


The good news in all this is that it is something treatable, and a
diagnosis *was* found, and I sure have been the route in the past
where a diagnosis can't be easily found, and the poor cat has test
after test to find it.


Cheryl,

This is good news indeed. I'm so happy that they were able to determine
the cause of the lump and treat it. I know its going to be difficult
over the next few days, and those days are going to seem like months but
I can't think of many people more qualified to take care of her than you
and I know Scarlett will thrive under your care.

Purrs continuing for both her and you,

Julie, Hobbes, Selena, Lacey and Sam

Cheryl wrote:

(snippage)

Thank you all who sent purrs for my baby. She's going to be needing
more healing purrs.

--
Cheryl


Well of course she can have as many purrs as it takes. I'm glad to
read you now know definitely what's wrong and a cure is in progress.
We're sending purrs that this definitely does the job and she feels
better pronto and permanently.

------
Krista