The 2 T’s, another two successful sporo cases (Ahada Kamaruddin’s)

Fitrina and Ahada Kamaruddin, two sisters, who care for two cats, first wrote to me on 12th June 2015:

From: Ahada Kamaruddin
Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM
Subject: About Treatment on Sporo Cat
To: chankahyein@gmail.com

Hi Dr. Chan,

I’m Ahada & Fitrina. I’ve just been informed by the UVH’s (Serdang) doctor that my male cat, Tabby, is having sporo. Having no clue what is sporo, I came across your website. I’m hoping if I could refer my cats to you later on as a second opinion as you’ve vast experience handling sporo cats. In addition, I do have another male cat, Tipsy, which I think might also been infected with sporo.

I’m looking forward to contacting you regarding Tabby and Tipsy. As for this moment, I’m on my way to pick up Tabby from UVH as the doctor advised us to do a home treatment on Tabby.

My main concern right now is, I’m working (from 8am-6pm), only will reach home by 7.30pm, and there’s no one at home to take care of Tabby to give him his medications timely.

Will wait for your soonest reply.

Rgds,
Ahada & Fitrina

From that day, we communicated with Ahada and Fitrina and shared all that we have learnt about treating sporo-cats. We also roped in one of our readers who has vast experience in treating her own sporo cat, also FIV+ like Tiger, to help by giving advice and moral support to Ahada and Fitrina.

All that I know about treating sporo-cats is here: http://animalcare.my/2014/04/29/tiger-day-54/ (Tiger’s story) and this link has been sent to every caregiver who writes in to enquire about their sporo-cats. I certainly do not have “vast experience” in handling sporo-cats as I’ve only handled one – Tiger (and thank goodness it’s only one), but we do have the benefit of the many sharings by other sporo-cat caregivers whose stories we’ve compiled into Tiger’s Day 54 link so that “one link rules them all”.

Caring for sporo-cats can be quite a daunting task as the healing process is often a long-drawn one and sometimes, there does not seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. As with many diseases and more so with sporotrichosis, sometimes it has to get worse (very much worse too) before getting better since sporo is a deep muscle infection and all that is deep-seated has to “come out” before the cat starts to truly recover.

Ahada and Fitrina decided to follow the advice of their vet and not do “too much”, a wise decision which I personally support as sometimes we only do “too much” for our own peace of mind. Doing too much need not be necessarily “better”. And I always explain that Tiger was given many supplements simply because he is FIV+.

It’s been slightly more than month now and here’s great news received today:

From: Ahada Kamaruddin
Date: Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: Supplement for Tabby & Tipsy
To: Chan Kah Yein <chankahyein@gmail.com>

Hello Dr. Chan,

I would to share a good news.

After 2T’s check up on last Friday, it seem there are free from Sporo.

However the vet will still continue with the sporo treatment in order to reconfirm their status.

So far all the wounds for Tipsy is cure while for Tabby most of it already dried off.

Thanks to all the advice and support that you have given to me and my sis.

We really appreciate it.

Together with this email I send few copies of 2T’s pictures.

Regards,

Ahada