Hi there. My 4 month old I fostered through a shelter since 5 weeks and adopted after he was ready to be is ill... basically his platelets are only at 8,000 and had so many marks of bleeding under his skin. His eyes had conjunctivitis and the marks were in his mouth which were bleeding I assume because he was itching them. His eyes were bleeding a little and had rust color oozing out. Took him to the vet obviously because this seemed to happen so fast and they did an xray and labs. Xray showed no internal bleeding but spleen and liver were a little enlarged. His labs including liver enzymes were good, red blood cells (low a little minor anemia) everything was fine even the flea and tick test was normal. But those damn platelets. Hes been on prednisolone for a week coming Monday and all of his marks are gone no more bleeding under the skin etc. Eyes clear (they were blood red) .
Our worry is bone marrow cancer. But I am having hope since so quickly that prednisolone cleared up all his issues that when he gets his platelets retested they would go up.. what do you think? I'm a mess about this. it's not fair for my kitten or my family hes such an angel. I keep telling myself his bleeding under the skin is gone so this has to mean his platelets improved..
Our worry is bone marrow cancer. But I am having hope since so quickly that prednisolone cleared up all his issues that when he gets his platelets retested they would go up.. what do you think? I'm a mess about this. it's not fair for my kitten or my family hes such an angel. I keep telling myself his bleeding under the skin is gone so this has to mean his platelets improved..