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This year has not been the best for our pets. First Ed had an abscess behind his right eye and now is our adorable little pirate piggie; he's adapted well to having just the one eye though, and the nose is still in fine working order. Now it turns out Gateway is diabetic, on top of the existing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The latter at least seems to be well under control with his medication, as the vet said he didn't hear his heart murmur last night. His glucose level last night (after not having any food for more than 12 hours) was 417. (!!!) He hasn't developed ketoacidosis though. The vet's advice was to try switching him to lower-carb food for a week and bringing him back in; if his glucose levels are still high, and I'd imagine they probably will be, then he starts getting insulin injections. Poor baby. Well, the good news here is that with the symptoms he had, it could've been something much worse, like chronic renal failure.