PT Prayers for Tiger...

[Emeraldgreen]

Lara - I thought 'just his lungs' were gargly. Is his nose breathing affected again?

Perhaps - just perhaps - it is not a tumour this time, but they can put some stuff up there to really clear things out?

Lara - I want to cry for Tiger and you - but you had him on the TF for three? months after the last invasive surgery.

I am just wanting to know why you think it will work this time...I am not trying to be negative, obviously this struck you as the right thing to do. Just trying to understand.

In addition to all the natural things you just tried, did you ask your vet about an inhalent that Tiger could use? Nose drops administered with a q-tip? Could a shot of "kitty dristan" be zapped up each nostril? Could this be tried to see if surgery is really necessary?

I've been running a fever today, so am not thinking clearly. But I am out of ideas.

I leave this with God.

His nose has been stuffy all along, though in Denise's reading she felt it was clear which is maybe why you think that. And she may have felt that because he is able to get air through there but it's a struggle and he is worse now than when the reading was done. He has always been able to get air through his nose but each day it gets harder and he is now breathing so his cheeks puff out a bit above his teeth.
His chest area was making some sounds but the vet couldn't be sure if it was the rumbly sounds resonating from his nasal area. She thought this might be the case.
I thought that maybe Tiger had contracted the Herpes virus from my cat Stinky because she had been sick but that is something that resolves itself in two weeks generally when I put them on Lysine. He just gets progressively worse.
He has been on multiple Convenia injections which I believe is in the Clavamox family and it did nothing and he was on 10 days of Baytril and no change. I've tried nasal drops, (we did manage to get some in him finally and no change), a liquid expectorant and now this holistic product with the belladonna in it.
He's had the tumor removed 3 times and I've become very familiar with what he sounds like as it grows back. He had the surgery on St. Patrick's day and as of today it's been 2 months and 21 days since then.
The surgery he had before that, the tumor grew back in 2 months. So it's definitely reasonable to assume that it is happening again.
My reason for wanting to get the tumor removed again isn't to cure him, it's to provide some more time so that I can continue to treat him with the Transfer Factor
and he will be more comfortable while I do that. I haven't treated him with the Transfer Factor for 3 months. It's been 2 months or less and very sporadic at that because of the other treatments that he was receiving. It took awhile for it to arrive in the mail and then I waited a bit because he was still recovering from the major surgery and had the incision in his mouth that was healing etc..
I had to stop the Transfer Factor for the 10 days that I gave him the Baytril because he couldn't have dairy and the only way he'd take the T.F. was in cream cheese.
I'm 99% sure the tumor is back but my vet will be able to see if that's the case when he does the rhinoscopy. If the tumor isn't there, the camera will hopefully show my vet what is going on and at that point he will be able to prescribe something that will help him. This isn't the radical surgery where they went in through his palate. This is having a look in his nasal passages to see what's going on and if there is something there, he'll remove it. It takes half an hour and when he wakes up, he can breathe like a normal cat. It will last for 2 months and hopefully, in that 2 months he will respond to the Transfer Factor. If he doesn't and if he begins to suffer with the tumor again and nothing seems to help, I'll put him down.
I've tried everything and he needs something to change. He is happy and has an awesome appetite and scratches his cat tree and likes to hang out in his outdoor enclosure but he can't get enough air. Each day he moves a little slower because he just isn't getting the air in. You can hear him across the room. It's horrible. I can't imagine what this is like for him.
It may be that my vet won't be able to get him in until the end of the month and in the meantime I will continue with the holisitc treatment and the Transfer Factor and the steaming and hope that something will change. I'll pick up a bottle of the Otrivin pump spray and see if it has a better effect than the drops.