Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site magic.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!magic!kolling From: kolling@magic.ARPA Newsgroups: net.pets Subject: Viral infection Message-ID: <125@magic.ARPA> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 20:52:14 EST Article-I.D.: magic.125 Posted: Thu Dec 20 20:52:14 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 01:55:58 EST Distribution: net Organization: DEC Systems Research, Palo Alto Lines: 19 I adopted a cat from a shelter a few days ago. I wisked her right from the shelter to the vet's because between when I picked her out and when she was released for adoption, she developed a very bad upper respiratory infection. She's in an isolation cage at the vet's, curled in a miserable heap, she drools a lot constantly, and doesn't eat, presumably because she has a monster sore throat. She's on intravenous fluids, and the vet says if she doesn't start eating by Monday, he recommends a surgical procedure to insert a tube into her stomach to feed her thru. He also says this type of infection is usually fatal to only a few percent of the cats that get it, but he doesn't sound as positive when he says this as he sounded when he said it yesterday..... Anybody had a cat with this condition who has any advice to offer? Are her chances really non-zero? I'm wondering if this surgery thing will do more harm than good? Karen (kolling@decwrl.arpa)