Please help save Sydney's life!

[kittykatharine]

Can Sydney have a CT scan done? (Sadly, they are not called CAT scans anymore...progress! ) If the restaging won't give you definite answers - well, what's the point, sort of?

Is anything available through your school?

Glad she is doing so well!

Unfortunately, my school does not have any veterinarian medicine program, so they are of no help. I know my vet does not have CT scan capabilities either. Maybe there is another vet in the area that has this equipment, and my vet can just refer me to them for the test. If not, Auburn is the closest vet school and they are three and a half hours away. It is very hard for me to determine what is best. I will talk it over with my vet, hopefully this will help with the decision making.


Here is a recent photo of Sydney:

[Catty1]

I watched the video...short, but SOOO sweet! Sydney has the most amazing face and spirit - you can just see her friskiness?

"Sick? Who? Not ME! I'm just being a cat!"

[jennielynn1970]

She is so adorable! I love that face!

Smooches to you sweetie!!!!

[Moesha]

I love that face too! I'm so glad you found us here at PT so you could share Sydney and her amazing story with us. No matter what the outcome, I will always remember your dear Sydney. Those first pictures with the lump on her head pushing on her eye to this latest one is just amazing!! Give her a big hug for me please!

[Medusa]

She is so adorable! I love that face!

Smooches to you sweetie!!!!

My thought exactly! I could just eat her up!

[jenluckenbach]

Just checking in on Sydney! SOOOOO cute!

Here is how I would handle the restaging....... Ask the vet WHY it is done. Ask why does it matter if she cannot have more treatment. Ask all the questions yo have and then go home and think it over. THEN, if allthe answers still add up to you not wanting to have it done......simply don't do it! Cancel the appointment. After all, YOU have the last call. No Dr. can FORCE you to have a procedure done. Allow me to give you another example. (When Rutherford had a lump removed, the Dr. suggested biopsy. So we did, and it was a fibrosarcoma. When Rutherford needed a second lump removed a few months later, the Dr suggested biopsy. I said NO. We all knew that fibrosarcoma has a way of returning so there was no reason to spend the money to find out what we already knew. Make sense?)

Anyway, I'm so glad Sydney is doing well.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Sydney looks great and I'm glad to hear that she's doing so well. I too would follow the advice of Jen. Good luck.

[Emeraldgreen]

Sydney looks great! Thanks for sharing the videos and pic of her. I hope her improvement continues and that she has a good long time with you.

[momtomany]

Sydney has the most expressive face and eyes. What a beauty. Prayers that she will continue to do well.

[kittykatharine]

Just so everyone knows, Sydney is still doing fine. She hasn't had any complications.

[Catty1]

She must be thriving being off chemo! (She IS done for now, right?)

Did you ever get the Transfer Factor from Lara?

Please give that sweet face a kiss on the forehead for me. I know how horribly tragic it was to lose Herc...and yet, your baby Sydney is thriving. What a mixed message for your heart.


{{{{hugs}}}}

[Medusa]

You must have been picking up on my vibe, Katherine, because I was just about to ask how she's doing. You've had a rough go of it, first w/her, then w/Hercules dying. Please know that we haven't forgotten about you and you're in our prayers every day.

[Emeraldgreen]

I just went through your thread to see what you had decided about the Transfer Factor a few months ago and found a post where you said you had purchased some. How did that go? I do have half a bottle here if you would like it. I also have a whole bottle that was compounded into a thick chicken flavoured suspension and it is in this GIANT syringe. I was supposed to squeeze out Tiger's daily dose and give it to him orally but he absolutely would not let me and I didn't want to stress him. I would want to check with the pharmacisit who compounded it to see if it is still good to use though. It has been sitting in a drawer since Tiger passed. If you are interested, please let me know and I'd be happy to mail it to you. I was also thinking that the other kitty in the cat health section who has squamous cell carcinoma might be able to use it. Maybe I could send one to you and the other to Haggis.

Hope beautiful Sydney is doing well. Please post when you can. I saw all these pictures of her just now when I went through the thread and the one with her with the stitches in her head are so heart wrenching. She is such a fighter.

[kittykatharine]

I just went through your thread to see what you had decided about the Transfer Factor a few months ago and found a post where you said you had purchased some. How did that go? I do have half a bottle here if you would like it. I also have a whole bottle that was compounded into a thick chicken flavoured suspension and it is in this GIANT syringe. I was supposed to squeeze out Tiger's daily dose and give it to him orally but he absolutely would not let me and I didn't want to stress him. I would want to check with the pharmacisit who compounded it to see if it is still good to use though. It has been sitting in a drawer since Tiger passed. If you are interested, please let me know and I'd be happy to mail it to you. I was also thinking that the other kitty in the cat health section who has squamous cell carcinoma might be able to use it. Maybe I could send one to you and the other to Haggis.

Hope beautiful Sydney is doing well. Please post when you can. I saw all these pictures of her just now when I went through the thread and the one with her with the stitches in her head are so heart wrenching. She is such a fighter.

I had bought a bottle and was giving it to Sydney in the beginning of her treatment. As she became more savvy, she wouldn't eat the food if it had the transfactor in it. After a while I was trying to give it to her in a capsule, but between the prednisone, fomatadine, antinausea medication, and iron supplements, it has become too stressful to give it to her. I have managed to fit all the above medications in one little capsule (which I give her every other day), and she gets a daily 1 cc of iron supplement daily. She really fights if I force her to do anything more than I am already doing. I can't seem to make her take anything more. So for now, I am waiting on the transfactor. My plan is when she finishes the chemo, etc. - I will start her back on the the transfactor, since she is already in habit of getting medicine everyday. I really appreciate you offering me your transfactor, I currently have about 3/4 of my bottle left for now. I am always a little worried about giving Sydney extra medicine, because I worry about taxing her liver. She already has SO much medicine in her body, which her body is constantly having to break down. My vet doesn't seem to know anything about transfactor - which doesn't help me either. Do you by any chance know of any clinical trials or clinical studies I could read about? I am pretty savvy and knowledgeable about medicine, so even complicated veterinarian or medical journal articles would help. Thank you!

[Emeraldgreen]

I had a very similar problem with Tiger and I understand.
I found a few sites that might be of interest and they are below. They are not case studies but have quite a bit of info.

Transfer Factor in Veterinary Medicine

Cancer Testimonials

Independent Study