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Fibonacci ( my 1 year old male short hair tuxedo kitty ) was perfect healthy/indoor cat for a year ( since we adoption him at 4 weeks old 11 months back) and suddenly in 4 days got PCV to 9% and 72 hours in Emergency care with cathedral/all tests except bone marrow. The vets billed us $8.5k without a diagnosis yet and we want to keep him alive at any cost. We got him home last 60 hours post 2 blood transfusions and PVC ( RBC count) increased from 17% to 22% since then. he is eating almost 200 gm a day and fever went down from 106.2 to 102.7 by yesterday. The only treatment we doing is giving him Doxycycline and Enrofloxacin every 24 hours and he got back active by today morning ( starting to climb up etc and getting tired back ). We doing PCV and temp check every 24 hours and the results as as below:
Incidents as below:
Monday 3rd May 8AM : Rushed him to primary care doctor as he stopped eating since 8 PM sunday with prior two days reduction in appetite and constipation. Primary doctor results : PCV11%, temperature 103.4, suggested us for EM at hoboken or antibiotic at home ( very risky ), negative on FelV, FIV
Monday 3rd May 2:30 PM : PCV 9/8% and fever 103.9 ( the hoboken vet EM was close to killing him by making me wait outside 4 hours with him inside and no treatment even knowing they don't have a blood transfusion equipment)
Monday 3rd 4PM: rushed to Paramus Blue Pearl center; (our fibonacci_warrior fought for his life and survived beyond science through the time); Blood transfusion 1 to get back PCV to 15% ; 8PM PCV shows it got back to 13% fever 106.2 ( Dr Fiamma De Witte, Internal medicine worried as seems body not producing any RBC : non regenerative), Ultrasound, Xray, pathological sample, CPC, PCV/TC all done but no reasons found yet.
Monday overnight Dr Witte gave him Doxycycline first shot with another steroid and Tuesday morning 8 AM Enrofloxacin first shot.
Tuesday 4th May 8 AM blood Transfusion 2 to get PCV to 19% ;
Tuesday 4th May 2 PM PCV to 18% ( positive sign of slowness in RBC break)
Tuesday 4th May 8 PM PCV to 17%
Wednesday 5th May 3 AM PCV to 17%, Ate one meal first time ( 40 gm)
Wednesday 5th May 8 AM PCV to 20% and fever reduced to 103.4; fever got reduced to 102.5 by 12 PM..
Decided to get him home and keep giving Doxycycline/Enrofloxacin and monitor for few days before deciding on bone marrow test ( this will cost another 4k)
Since he is home his appetite increased, he ate 180 gm on Wednesday overnight ;
Thursday 6th May morning did PCV : 22% and fever 102.8 :
Friday till now ate 200 gm and started walking around and climbing sometime on chairs ( and still getting back weaK dizzy)
We have strictly disinfected his area with steam based and rotating his 5 favourite meals and he has gained back 1 lb. Today we got home thermeter ( ear one) but seems he doesnt have fever since morning and talking and trying to do his usuals.
Concerns:
no Diagnosis yet so no accurate prognosis but the two antibiotics are saving hid life and getting him back.
Dr Witte asked for a revisit on tuesday to decide on bone marrow test.
Please help us with any experience you guys have on similar issues. Also some leads for a second opinion ?
Thanks
Incidents as below:
Monday 3rd May 8AM : Rushed him to primary care doctor as he stopped eating since 8 PM sunday with prior two days reduction in appetite and constipation. Primary doctor results : PCV11%, temperature 103.4, suggested us for EM at hoboken or antibiotic at home ( very risky ), negative on FelV, FIV
Monday 3rd May 2:30 PM : PCV 9/8% and fever 103.9 ( the hoboken vet EM was close to killing him by making me wait outside 4 hours with him inside and no treatment even knowing they don't have a blood transfusion equipment)
Monday 3rd 4PM: rushed to Paramus Blue Pearl center; (our fibonacci_warrior fought for his life and survived beyond science through the time); Blood transfusion 1 to get back PCV to 15% ; 8PM PCV shows it got back to 13% fever 106.2 ( Dr Fiamma De Witte, Internal medicine worried as seems body not producing any RBC : non regenerative), Ultrasound, Xray, pathological sample, CPC, PCV/TC all done but no reasons found yet.
Monday overnight Dr Witte gave him Doxycycline first shot with another steroid and Tuesday morning 8 AM Enrofloxacin first shot.
Tuesday 4th May 8 AM blood Transfusion 2 to get PCV to 19% ;
Tuesday 4th May 2 PM PCV to 18% ( positive sign of slowness in RBC break)
Tuesday 4th May 8 PM PCV to 17%
Wednesday 5th May 3 AM PCV to 17%, Ate one meal first time ( 40 gm)
Wednesday 5th May 8 AM PCV to 20% and fever reduced to 103.4; fever got reduced to 102.5 by 12 PM..
Decided to get him home and keep giving Doxycycline/Enrofloxacin and monitor for few days before deciding on bone marrow test ( this will cost another 4k)
Since he is home his appetite increased, he ate 180 gm on Wednesday overnight ;
Thursday 6th May morning did PCV : 22% and fever 102.8 :
Friday till now ate 200 gm and started walking around and climbing sometime on chairs ( and still getting back weaK dizzy)
We have strictly disinfected his area with steam based and rotating his 5 favourite meals and he has gained back 1 lb. Today we got home thermeter ( ear one) but seems he doesnt have fever since morning and talking and trying to do his usuals.
Concerns:
no Diagnosis yet so no accurate prognosis but the two antibiotics are saving hid life and getting him back.
Dr Witte asked for a revisit on tuesday to decide on bone marrow test.
Please help us with any experience you guys have on similar issues. Also some leads for a second opinion ?
Thanks