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The title pretty much sums it up.

My Fiancee and I have two cats, a little kitten that we just recently adopted, and a two year old tabby that we got from petland a year and a half ago.

The two year old has recently (the last month and a half) become increasingly lethargic and uninterested, he has also lost over two pounds which is quite a lot for a cat his size. His day consists of sleeping, eating a little bit of food, and staring at the wall. This is completely inconsistent with how he used to act, he used to play, fetch and generally have a high energy level.

So we took him into the vet on Friday and had some blood work run on him, and it came back today. The vet suspects it's leukemia, but the screen for it came up negative on the blood work, yet she still thinks it might be leukemia. In any case he is very anemic at the moment, and for whatever reason his bone marrow isn't producing enough red blood cells. She has prescribed him some steroids (which are just a stop-gap measure at the moment), but beyond that has suggested taking a bone marrow sample to be sure if it is leukemia or not.

IF it is leukemia, there isn't anything we can do and if it isn't leukemia, they don't have any idea what is making him sick, and the steroids may or may not help to bring his red blood cell count up.

I guess what I'm asking is if any of you have any past experience with something like this.

We don't want to have to put Theo down, but we also don't want to see him suffer, and to be honest we can't afford to pay thousands of dollars in vet bills for a bone marrow sample that would just confirm that we can't do anything.

In addition, the vet mentioned if he has leukemia he might be able to transfer it to the kitten, which would devastate my Fiancee, all in all I got absolutely no advice on where to go from here.

Thanks in advance.....it's been a ****ty day, any advice or thoughts would be appreciated.