Hi Dr. Chad. Actually there currently is no actual respiratory discharge. Most of that has been cleared up. Probably not cured, but nose is pretty much clear. Possible drainage in throat, but that is "clear". Toxoplasmosis test done and results came back yesterday as negative. She has also had 2 doses of Interferon. 2nd dose was on Friday. Is possibly why she is doing better right now. Don't know long the affect of that lasts though. Sinus drainage/discharge cleared up dramatically with first round of Azithromycin .75 mg for 5 days. Then 5-7 days later cough appeared. Told to put on another round of Azi .75. After 4 doses cat went down hill very quick. No eating, drinking and becomming more and more inactive and lethargic. Got scared that maybe Azi was wrong for her and had overdosed her. She was starting to dehydrate so we took her to emergency clinic on Sunday. They hydrated her subQ to hold her till Monday. Took her to regular vet on Monday a.m. They put her on IV and really expected her to die over night. Next morning she was up and moving around. By Tuesday she was climbing the cage door. They had give her only fluids, Clindamyacin and shot of Interferon. On Wednesday she was eating and drinking well and they discharged her. She did not eat or drink well at home. Just a little so we took her back to vet to be hydrated. Friday she got hydration subQ and 2nd shot of Interferon. Saturday we had her re-checked to make sure she would be okay hydration wise till Monday. They had me do the subQ 20cc and gave me a bag and syringe to use on Sunday at 40cc. She is doing better eating and drinking, but certainly not normal yet. Am concerned that we are just "maintaining" her with this hydration and if we do not do it she will immediately go back down hill. What are the signs of FIP. Two of the vets are in conflict with that diagnosis. Two first thought that was what it was, but one changed his mind. Obviously this hydration thing which is painful for the cat is no life for her. We are just trying to do the right thing and give her a chance. Just not sure if she really has a chance at normal life.

The vets found no fluid in her abdomen. They did tell me that the test for FIP would be inconclusive, but did not say that if negative that it would rule it out, just that we could get a false posiive. She is on Ensyl-F twice a day. Since she IS eating some, I am not sure if I should ALSO force feed her to keep up her strength and calories. I have canned AD feed and also Nutri-Cal that I can force her to take. I am afraid if I do LOTS of force feeding that she might quit the voluntary feeding also. When you say may take awhile to work...how long is awhile. We don't want to quit on her before giving her a chance, but also don't want to just "SUSTAIN" her and put her through so much only to have top put her down anyway. How long should we keep up the sustanance/hydrating before we should conclude that we can not do any more to help her. I ask vet how we would know and all he said was if she gets down as bad as before and is so totally lethargic. But I am wondering if she would get that far if we are hydrating and force feeing her. Can you give me any kind of time line?

She had a metacam shot the 2nd time I brought her in and she did start eating and seemed to get back to normal and then 5 days later is when she started coughing and went back on the Azi med for the 2nd time. It was day 4 of the Azi med that she crashed so bad. If this is Herpes virus....are my other 2 cats not infected and either way, is Herpes virus manageable or do they just get better and it stays dormant and just reappears from time to time, but hopefully her immune system will have improved to where she won't crash so bad. If the congestion is so much better, wouldn't se be eating better by now? I think she also got the metacom while she was in intensive care, but not sure. This whole thing has been going on now for almost a month. But it was last week that she was so bad. The vets are calling her the "miracle cat", because of how bad she was and then got so much better so fast. So should be plan on hydrating her for another week then to give her a chance or should it be longer? I also want to know if you think force feeding her is a good idea or just see how she eats on her own. ?