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so luther's red blood count is back up to 26 from 21. that is very good.
BUT i spent all evening last night at the vet and got NO xmas shopping done.
and he is back in this morning because they lost his paperwork and didn't know what tests to run (besides what i could tell them).
and they charged a lot for the emergency visit.
and apparantly bringing him in BY 7 also entails waiting around for 45 minutes while they look for his paperwork from last night.
grrr.
i hate being late to work.
even if it is my last day.

the people at my work are amazingly nice. i came in to work this am and there were two cards signed by everyone and a big box of six different kinds of teasophy teas from india and sri lanka. some of them i've never heard of before (although i'm already a big fan of darjeeling - celestial seasonings organic mango darjeeling is a current favorite). SO cool. they act like they're actually going to miss me. :)
it's so nice to feel cared for.

luther

i just got off the phone with the vet, a very competant young woman. i can tell she knows what she's talking about and i feel he is getting very good care.

so luther's red blood count is better than it was.
that doesn't mean he isn't a very, very sick kitty.
in the CVA (a count of ALL the different kinds of cells in the blood)that they did last night, he had too many lymphocites.
she is going to do a bone marrow sampling.
she is not optomostic about what she will find.

there are three things in the range of possibilities.
1)FLV. after all the craziness it could still be that. the blood tests are good, but FLV can hide in their bone marrow.

2)cancer. this seems to be what the vet thinks she will find.

3)an autoimmune virus. this is the only option that is treatable.

some of the results will be available today. some not until after the holidays.
she says he is stable right now. he could live a few months even if what he has is not treatable.

this is not the xmas present i wanted.