hi
here's the back ground. in july i got a kitten from a house with at least
30 other cats. she was fairly thin when we got her but she put on weight
and was healthy. then i took her to get fixed and was informed that she had
an infection in her mouth and they put her on clavamox 2 times daily for 10
days and tested for viral infections which came back negative. on saturday
i brought her back to the vet for a check up and the vet said she had really
bad gingiviti so i asked what could be done for that and they ran blood
tests on the kedneys, liver. well today i phoned the vet and they said she
had some complex thing, i'm not sure the name but the white blood cell count
was high and that something else was high it think it started with an eth
or something like that, i may be wrong anyway what they think she has is
normally seen in cat's skin not there mouth's. they said when they spay
here they would want to do a biopsy on her mouth, i think send a sample to a
patholigist and then grow the bacteria or do a swab or something i wasn't
really sure since i was starting to cry. i know this is fairly vague but i
was wondering if anyone could tell me what it might be called, i'd call the
vet again but i'm crying to much since my parent think i should put her down
since it's going to cost another 400 to fix her and then treatment. i
refuse to put her down though since i have a job, and sure i will only be
able to do a bit at a time i can still treat her. i had to put a cat down 3
years ago because i couldn't afford treatment and i will NOT do that again.
she's the best cat ever and i wouldn't even had known she was sick if it
weren't for the blood tests.

also i was wondering if it is really that bad if she goes into one heat? i
mean she is probably ready to go at anytime now but i don't get paid for
another 2 weeks and that's when i can afford to have all the other stuff
done.
so if anyone can give info that would be great, if not then i'll phone the
vet tomorrow and research, research, research.

i posted on the vet fourm and someone suggested it may be eosinophilic
granuloma complex and i think that's what she has. So i was wondering if
anyone had a cat with it and if so what tests did you run to see if they
acctually had it if any. i would like to do the tests but my parents don't
want me to spend 1000 on tests, hey they don't want me to spend 400 on
tests. they acctually had the nerve to phone the vet tonight to see what
exactly she has and what the prognosis is and all of that, even though i
have stated that i am not putting her down. and they have stated that they
don't want me spending much money on her if she's sick, my mom didn't even
really want me to do the blood work. i mean she's acting normal and she's
so young, you wouldn't even know anything was wrong with a her. in fact the
vet didn't really suggest blood tests until i asked if there was something
that we could do to make sure she was ok for the spay.