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Buttercup

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Purred: Wed Jul 9, '08 2:42pm PST 
Dear friends,

I am kinda new on here. My sister Pixel has her own page and I thought I was on there too until mommy checked today and saw that I wasn't. My name is Buttercup and I am a orange and white tabby with extra toes on both my front paws. One has two extra and the other has three.

I have several health problems and mommy has taken really good care of me since she adopted me in 2003. We found out right after I was adopted that I have a weak positive test for feline leukemia and also the feline herpes virus. I've always been a bit of a couch potato, but like I said, I am very well loved and taken care of.

Lately I've been losing weight. At first mommy and daddy thought it was from the teeth I had to have pulled back last year and the soft food diet that they had to put me on. Mommy took me to the vet back in April because she noticed a sore on my neck and was really worried since I'm an indoor kitty. We still don't know how I got the scratch. The vet that saw me didn't think much of it but gave mommy some antibiotics just in case. I really hate medicine so mommy gave me as much as she was able to. The sore healed up and so we weren't too worried after that.

I still was losing weight though and the vet didn't really say anything about that in April. Lately though I've lost alot of weight and mommy got really worried so back to the vet we went. The vet that saw me this time was my regular vet and very nice. She was very worried about my weight loss and thought it might be my thyroid or possible tumor. Mommy got really worried.

Today mommy got a call from the vet with the results. My red blood count is very low so the vet and the other doctor that tested my blood think that the feline leukemia has gotten more activated basically and is now in my bone marrow and that's why I'm not making any new red blood cells. I hope that is the right one? It might be white blood cells.

Mommy is really worried and upset. Is there anything at all that can be done? I really like that I am getting extra attention right now and get all the food I want including turkey which tastes really good. I don't like being sick though. Please help!
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