Phinehas and Malachi health issues - confirmed diagnoses: herpes virus in the eye

[krazyaboutkatz]

I went by Karen's place today and I dropped off some left over L-lysine that I had been using on Pearl. Malachi eye's look so much better. One of Phinehas's eyes looks bad and was almost closed. It didn't look very bad on Sat. so it sure has gotten worse.

Malachi is now out of his e-collar and he's so happy to be able to be with Phinehas again. They were both cuddling together in the bed that I had given to Karen. She put a heating pad in the bottom of it and they love it. Karen also received some L-lysine in powder form to try on them so hopefully both of them will get better and feel better soon.

[Medusa]

Goodness, I'm sorry to read this but now that you know what's going on, hopefully things will improve quickly. Prayers are continuing for you all. Keep the faythe.

[critters]

I know you're concerned about $$, but you might want to consider a third eyelid flap on a particularly bad eye/s. Simply, the cat is knocked out and the eyelids are pulled together to be a natural bandage on the eye/s. 3 eyes have been saved with it here because they were all better when the TEF was released.

Polly's herpes never clears up--just better and worse. Everybody else's here DID go away completely. Her son Domino keeps a bit of his occasionally, so it seems to be a family thing.

[Russian Blue]

Wow, the cats are really testing you, eh? Nakita also had the herpes virus but never a full outbreak.

The best thing you can do is keep the stress to a minimum,add the l-lysine to the food, and feed a high quality diet.

We just had to take Gigi to the vet. She had impacted anal glands that needed to be expressed. Nothing like having a cattitude calico with full anal glands! I'm sure it was the highlight of the vet's morning (Gigi came out looking like she was violated).

Sending vibes that the cats make a full recovery. Hang in there, Karen.

(((hugs)))