Latest Update 12-9-09 Storm's Been Diagnosed & Sunny's Biopsy Results

[jennielynn1970]

Oh Tracey, I'm so sorry to be reading all of this now. I hardly ever venture over to the health section (it gets me all teary eyed at work), but I wish I would have seen this earlier.

I'll be keeping you, Storm, and especially Sunny, in my thoughts and prayers. I hope that everything will work out ok for Sunny, that poor sweet boy.

Hugs to you and all your fur kids.

[smokey the elder]

I googled feline cancer and there were some links about treatment (clinical trials) of oral squamous cell carcinoma. For example there is research at the University of Pennsylvania vet school: http://www.vet.upenn.edu/

[wolf_Q]

I'm very sorry to hear this. I hope you will have as much time as possible with Sunny. Sending good vibes to Sunny, Storm, and you. {{HUGS}}

[katladyd]

I am sending up prayers for all of you. I would try the transfer factor, it sure couldn't hurt and there have been some amazing results from it. Hang in there, we all care very much!

[krazyaboutkatz]

Thanks everyone. Sunny's having a good day today. He was very hungry this morning and I'll be feeding him some more canned food in a few minutes. Pearl has taken over the howling at night routine and it's driving me crazy. She's also still being very nasty towards Sunny. Ziggy is being a bit nicer towards him today.

I also got some very good news from my vet about Storm's prognosis. I asked her a few questions about the pred and Folic Acid supplements and this is what her response was:

We will carefully wean Storm off of the pred over a period of months. He may need some level of pred life long, but we will attempt to wean it down to the lowest effective dose.


I usually give the folic acid for 6 weeks and try to get the underlying disorder under control (with the pred). Hopefully by then he will be stabilized, which means his intestine is working normally again, which theoretically means he does not need to be supplemented further because his intestine can absorb it normally again. So, if he is not vomting and acting normal in 6 weeks, we may just stop and not necessairaly retest. We will see how it goes.

Hopefully his intestine will start working normally again and he won't vomit any more. So far so good but he's a mighty hungry boy these days.

[Barbara]

Good to hear about Storm. I am sorry to hear that Pearl is aggressive towards Sunny I must admit- this is how I could have learned earlier that something was wrong with Tigris. Tigris had always been bullying Filou (not all the time, but once in a while) and some weeks before we noticed Tigris was sick I was surprised to see that Filou chased him and pounced on him.
These kitties have not invented the idea of pity- they rather do not want a sick member of the gang around
But it's good to hear that Sunny eats.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Good to hear about Storm. I am sorry to hear that Pearl is aggressive towards Sunny I must admit- this is how I could have learned earlier that something was wrong with Tigris. Tigris had always been bullying Filou (not all the time, but once in a while) and some weeks before we noticed Tigris was sick I was surprised to see that Filou chased him and pounced on him.
These kitties have not invented the idea of pity- they rather do not want a sick member of the gang around
But it's good to hear that Sunny eats.

Thanks Barbara. Storm had a bit of a relapse on Fri. night because I had stopped giving him 5mg of pepcid at night since my vet told me to stop. Now he's back on the pepcid for at least 4 weeks and he's doing well. He licked Ziggy's head this morning so I thought that they were finally being friendly again. Then a bit later Storm's chasing her again and making her growl and hiss.

Sunny's doing great and has even started howling again in the hall way and lining his mice up for some one to play with him. He's also still eating very well. He even jumped up on his 7' cat tree yesterday. If I didn't know any better I wouldn't think that there was anything wrong with him. I hope that he can continue like this for quite a while.

Pearl is being a bit nicer towards Sunny but she can be nasty towards all of the cats at times. She may be little but she can be very aggressive and bossy. Then she can also be very loving and nuturing. I think she's aware that Sunny is feeling better so she's not picking on him as much.

I'm still waiting for my vet to call me. She said that she'd try to call me some time before 12pm so hopefully she'll call soon. She only works until 5pm. I'll update you later about things. Thanks again for all of the emotional support.