Help Tamago fight Feline Infectious Peritonitis

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Hey there, it's Swoosy and Yuki, we're raising money to help fund our orange cat, Tamago, to receive treatment for FIP, a viral disease caused by certain strains of a virus called the feline coronavirus. We are starting a treatment called GS-441524, the treatment will take 84 days or more to cure him of this virus.

Tamago is like a younger brother to our oldest cat - Shimeji or "Shima" (dark stripe/white belly cat).

We adopted Tamago (orange cat) and Momo (cream cat) around the same time. Momo developed FIP just a month after I adopted her and it was the saddest period of my life. I ended up having to euthanize her because the fluid in her abdomen was putting too much pressure on her heart and lungs. I had taken her to the ER and my regular vet several times, but this time it was to get a blood transfusion because she was running out of red blood cells. She couldn't breathe, couldn't see, couldn't eat. I could have saved her if I had known more about FIP and the treatment earlier.

Now 5 months after that tragedy, Tamago developed a cloudy spot in his left eye. This hazy spot is the first symptom I saw in Momo as well. Immediately I took him to my vet on March 17th, who ran bloodwork on him. He has internal uveitis, it is not an external cause, so she highly suspects it is FIP again. The lesion is covering half of his entire left eye. Tamago is not yet in the critical state that Momo was in. I know that FIP moves fast, so we start his treatment on Monday, March 21st.

This is a very expensive treatment, and requires extensive vet checkups as well:

3 pills a day, $12/per pill, for 84 days or more.
"2-4 sets of labs, ideally 30 days apart but no more than 60 days apart. First set best done pre-treatment, last set best done around day 80 to allow for results to come back before day 84.
An exam by your vet including any other diagnostics your veterinarian recommends such as x-ray or ultrasound to check for enlarged lymph nodes, thickening of the GI tract and lesions or granulomas on organs, enlarged organs or pockets of fluids."

Please help us save Tamago, thank you so much...!

Here is some more information about FIP:

https://www.elwoodvet.net/coronavirus-in-cats

Here is some more information about the GS treatment:

https://ccah.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk4586/files/inline-files/Summary%20of%20GS-441524%20treatment%20v7.pdf

Here are some photos of Tamago, Momo, and Shimeji. (Warning: Some pictures of Momo are very very sad because she was very sick)