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[geekchick]

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.

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Ow. Poor kitty... was he comatose?
(hug)

[geekchick]

No, nothing that bad. He'd just been drinking and using the litterbox way more than normal.

[winterbadger]

Poor kitty! :-(

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Aww. Healthy-Kitty-Vibes and *hugs* for you.

[geekchick]

He seems to be reasonably okay, other than pissed that we took his food bowl up the other night and tried to starve him. =) He's also lost almost a pound and a half since June, but some of that I think can be attributed to switching him over to lower-calorie senior food; he's down to a svelte 13 pounds now.

How is Spike-a-loo? Does he still resemble a space-station (or perhaps a small planet)? =)

[geekchick]

Yeah. =( I think mostly he's going to be annoyed that he's not going to get to free-feed anymore, he's going to have breakfast and dinner. But it will be gooshy food, so maybe that will ease some of the pain. ;)

[geekchick]

Thanks. *hug*

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I cared for a friend's kitty while she was hospitalized a few times, shooting him up with insulin. He was a happy and healthy kitty, just needed those daily shots, and he was friendly about them. It makes kitty care a little trickier for travelling, etc. but it's doable.

[asetwoman.livejournal.com]

Definitely kitty vibes!!