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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
The blood test we just got back showed that he was negative for leukemia, yet the vet still seems to think that a marrow test would prove that he has it.
This is where I am leaning towards thinking that he might not have leukemia but that it might be something else that is causing the anemia.
If it something easily fixable, that can improve his quality of life then obviously we will do it, I just don't know if playing ring around the rosy with the diagnostics is the way to go.
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I had a cat where a vet couldn't seem to figure out the problem . . . .
In the end, after batteries of other tests looking for other things, we finally went to the expense - basically a last straw - of x-rays and found the cat had swallowed a nickel.
The metal was gradually dissolving in his stomach and slowly poisoning him, creating a lot of the problems you described.
An operation and the greatest cat in the history of the world lived many more years. The vet liked to take that half-dissolved nickel around to schools and show the kids what stomach acids can do.
Ultimately, we always outlive them so there's always a sad day coming in the future. If it doesn't have to be today, however, then that's a bonus.
Cowperson