Hades, a kitten fighting FIP

15/04/2022

Hades is officially cured!

01/04/2022

Such a handsome young man. Sitting at the bar, watching dinner be prepared. He’s a foodie for sure!

22/01/2022

Hades has his blood work today to determine if he can now go into observation. He now weighs 8.8 lbs!! He was only 3.8 lbs when we got him in mid October. Fingers crossed that he’s done with treatment. 🤞🏻

05/01/2022

18/12/2021

I think he heard a strange noise 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

12/12/2021

Chilling out after his last shot #53

12/12/2021

Hades had his last shot today!! He did so great! Didn’t even cry or squirm. We will finish out the next 30 days of treatment with the oral form. Can’t wait to throw him a graduation party with his closest friends and family.

05/12/2021

This brings us up to the present time. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and Hades loves climbing the tree and the ladder!

05/12/2021

Hades, sitting at the table patiently awaiting his thanksgiving feast!

05/12/2021

Bloodwork came back great! Liver and kidney function are fine, anemia has resolved and he’s gained 2.6 pounds!

05/12/2021

At his one month vet check up, the vet tells us he looks jaundiced and liver failure is a huge concern with FIP. The vet confirms the skin issue is fungal, but with liver concerns with FIP, he cannot do an oral antifungal. The eye issue is most likely a form of herpes. He was given lysine to help the eyes and his immune system. As if all that wasn’t enough, he also has pretty severe gingivitis! They did bloodwork and would call in 2 days with the results

05/12/2021

One month into treatment and he’s now having watery, goopy eyes and he has a fungal infection all over his body. Thank goodness his one month vet appointment was a few days later.

05/12/2021

Happy Halloween from Hades and his sister, Elvira!

05/12/2021

2 weeks into treatment and he was feeling and looking so much better. He loves climbing up the cat tree.

05/12/2021

After his first shot. He looks so sad 😞

05/12/2021

These pictures were taken the day was brought home.

05/12/2021

Meet Hades, the little guy who was diagnosed with FIP at 3 months of age. My husband and I were in town running errands when we saw Pet Supplies Plus. I suggested we go inside and look at the sweet little animals. Once inside I saw the cutest little black kitten and fell in love with her, only to discover she had a brother in the cage with her. I didn’t want to separate the two of them so I applied to adopt them both. The boy looked a little disheveled but they didn’t matter. So the day comes for the rescue service to bring them to their forever home (our home), the lady bringing them called me to tell me that the boy didn’t look quite right, his fur is scraggly and his belly is distended. She asked if I still wanted him and I said “of course I do!”. So she brought them and set up a vet visit for Hades for the next day. I feel totally in love with him that night, as did everyone who met him. He was the sweetest little boy from the start. As soon as she dropped him off, he was following me around the house, meowing and would jump right in my lap as soon as I sat down. As my family members began arriving home for the night, he’d greet them at the door with his little meows and would follow them around the house too. So the next morning his vet appointment takes place and after blood work and abdominal fluid collection, we received the bad news, he has FIP (feline infectious peritonitis). This disease has been a death sentence. However, there is an experimental drug out of China, that has shown great results with many cats beating the disease. However, this drug is very costly and it’s in injectable form. That’s an injection a day for 84 days with 84 days of observation following. The rescue company we adopted him from are wonderful and told us about the treatment and did a fundraiser to get the money for it. I was daunted at the fact of injecting this poor baby for 84 days. My husband and stepdaughter are very needle phobic and could not possibly bring themselves to inject him, so me being a nurse practitioner, they elected me to be the injector. This was a heartbreaking experience, it’s a painful injection and I felt terrible every time I had to do it. Keep in mind before he started the injections, he hardly ate or drank, he was literally skin and bones, he was anemic, patchy fur, he didn’t run and play like his sister did, he was lethargic, and had a fever. After 3 days of shots, he began playing more and he got a healthy appetite. A week in and he was running around with the zoomies, he began putting on weight. He’s now 46 days into his journey and I created this page to document his fight.

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05/12/2021