Here's her background:

I received her from an elderly woman who passed away.  She is an indoor cat, and the only cat in the household.  She is about 5 years old. I took her to the vet last Sept to get her yearly shots and the vet said she tested positive for Feline Leukemia.  But the vet also said my cat was really healthy and he was suprised she tested positive.  He said to get her tested again in 6 months to check and see if she was still positive because it could have been a false positive, some kind of error in the test, etc.  But I did not take her to get tested again because really I just didn't want to know.  She is very healthy and I had no reason to get her tested since tehre is no treatment for the disease anyway.

She is due for her yearly shots again in Sept and I planned on taking her to get them and seeing if she was still testing positive for Feline Leukemia.

However, for the past few days she has been acting weird.  She has not been eating very much.  When normally she will wake me up in teh morning to feed her, and then when i get home from work she will be right at the door to greet me and then meows to be fed. But the past few days I've only filled up her bowl about 2 times.  She has just been kind of laying around.  She hasn't been meowing at all. She normally meows at you if you talk to her alot.  I tried rubbing her belly which normalyl makes her kick my hand away with her back claws or she tries to bite me but she didn't do anything.  When I came home from work last night she was in the kitchen with her food but then she just went on the floor and laid down.  She didn't wake me up to feed her this morning and her bowl was still pretty full from last night.  I brought a handful of food over to my bed to try and get her to eat and she did eat some.  Then she just kind of laid on my bed for a while then jumped off and went under my bed to hide.

I almost called off work today because I was worried something was going to happen to her while I'm at work.  I live alone so I have noone who can check on her.  I'm working 12 hours and won't be home until 730. I'm wondering if I should find a local animal hospital to take her too if she's not better? If I should wait till tomorrow morning (i'm off the next 2 days) Or if I should just wait a few days and see if theres any change.

Any thoughts/opinionss would be greatly appreciated!

SuperCat

Even if she truly does have feline leukemia, cats can live long healthy lives with that - but you do need to know, and you do need to be extra-careful with her.  Cats can get very sick very quickly, and her compromised immune system will only speed up any illness she gets.

Come back & tell us how she's doing! 

My cats own my house they just permit me to live there.

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold."
- Susanne Millen

I had an FIV+ cat years ago who developed a growth on his forehead, and like you, I declined chemotherapy.  If he'd have had a good prognosis, I might have decided differently, but to me it seemed like making him miserable for no reason.  I hope that your kitty has a better prognosis, this was over 10 years ago and they've greatly improved what they can do for our furry friends since then.  But I felt at the time that the best thing for me to do was to keep him as long as he had healthy happy days, then when all the healthy happy days were gone, it was time to let him go. 

You're in my prayers, I know this is very hard for you to be going through.

I know what you're going through -- it sure isn't easy!  Thoughts and prayers are with you!

SuperCat

If there is no future with some treatment and it's painful for him, don't give it.