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Hello Community~ I'm posting partly to vent and partly in hopes that someone might have some ideas...
After losing our little Aviendha last year, we took some time to heal and then adopted another kitten (Bean) as a brother to our other baby, Delirium.
Shortly after adopting Bean Thanksgiving week, I noticed a weird "slowness" and "jellyfishness" to him, and a strange fat belly. It also seemed like he couldn't jump really well. We took him to the vet, and at first, the vet scared the heck out of us because as I described his calmness and behavior, it sounded like FIP, which is not curable and normally fatal in kittens.
We did blood work and his white blood cell count was very high (26,000... and the normal range is 5.5k - 19.5k). Thankfully, no fluid was found around his belly and the often-elevated protein levels that come with FIP weren't there. We did a fecal, and they found giardia which can cause abdominal distention, but the vet warned us that the blood count was pretty high for just giardia. They put him on meds for the giardia and some antibiotics for possible infection (metronidazole and something else i can't recall right now) for 14 days. He started improving on day 2! He's still a bit of a ragdoll/jellyfish sleeper (it's almost as if he doesn't have any bones!), but he is more alert, started to play a lot more, and started jumping with much more accuracy. After those meds, another fecal revealed coccidia (i *think* that's what it was called) and some more meds were prescribed. He was on Albon 5% and doxycycline for 2 weeks. He's doing SO well. So alert, and a bit of a terror as kittens should be!!!
We just went in for another fecal and blood work, and the fecal came back negative for parasites, BUUUUTTTT the white blood cell count is still high~~~ it came back at 22,000. The vet is perplexed. We've scheduled an x-ray and a possible ultrasound depending on what the x-ray tells us.
We're at a loss here~ I just want to know what is causing the high WBC count!!! We've emotionally beat up from our loss last year, all the meds, our senior kitty, Gwen, getting older and having kidney issues, and now the uncertainty of Bean's health.
/end rant
Any thoughts as what we could be missing? Something I should suggest our vet (don't get me wrong, they are very very competent there~ just desperate here!)
After losing our little Aviendha last year, we took some time to heal and then adopted another kitten (Bean) as a brother to our other baby, Delirium.
Shortly after adopting Bean Thanksgiving week, I noticed a weird "slowness" and "jellyfishness" to him, and a strange fat belly. It also seemed like he couldn't jump really well. We took him to the vet, and at first, the vet scared the heck out of us because as I described his calmness and behavior, it sounded like FIP, which is not curable and normally fatal in kittens.
We just went in for another fecal and blood work, and the fecal came back negative for parasites, BUUUUTTTT the white blood cell count is still high~~~ it came back at 22,000. The vet is perplexed. We've scheduled an x-ray and a possible ultrasound depending on what the x-ray tells us.
We're at a loss here~ I just want to know what is causing the high WBC count!!! We've emotionally beat up from our loss last year, all the meds, our senior kitty, Gwen, getting older and having kidney issues, and now the uncertainty of Bean's health.
/end rant
Any thoughts as what we could be missing? Something I should suggest our vet (don't get me wrong, they are very very competent there~ just desperate here!)