Aito
Member Since 2021
[This is a long, non-emergency post. I thought it'd be good to let you know before you start reading. If this doesn't belong to this part of the forum I apologize, I'm still figuring things out]
First of all I wanted to thank everyone who has answered my frantic 2 am threads. You have all been so kind and welcoming and helped calm down my anxiety about this. It's day 3 and it's still hard but we're figuring out the things that work for us.
For a while, as I get used to taking my kitty's bg, I will be driving her to the 24/7 vet clinic that is close to my house. She kinda likes car rides and the doctors there are nice and it's not a terrible expense to do that, it's very affordable to me at the time and it makes things less stressful for the both of us. Of course, if it is incredibly necessary at a moment to immediately take her bg I will do so myself, but for her twice a day regular checkups we will go to the clinic.
We're still arriving at an average of 430 with our bg but I feel like a lot of it is stress. She's confused about me suddenly prickling her ears and chasing her around and she gets stressed easily. She's always been easy to stress out, just coughing in a room with her makes her grumpy. It's probably because she used to have an abusive owner before she was rehomed here. I remember when she was little how much I worked to gain her trust and how I was the only person she would meow or purr at for years. We have a bond built with effort and affection and lately I've suffered a lot thinking that it might break. I chase after her and I prick her ears and I pin her down to give her the insulin and I wake her up when I'm worried that she's twitching in her sleep (she's always been twitching and meowing in her sleep when she dreams). But everytime she comes back. She calms down after about an hour and she s back again in her favorite spot in front of my bedroom door, following me around the house, cuddling next to me on the couch.
Things are getting a little better. A tiny bit. And I'm hopeful that soon we'll adapt to this. I found her new food thanks to the help of one of the memebers her who sent me the list of low carb food. I'm ordering it tomorrow first thing in the morning and I'll start integrating it in her diet.
It's hard in the beginning. But it will get better, I know it will. All I need to do now is to calm down. I researched everything twenty times. I have 2 vets and a clinic on speed dial and I call them whenever I have a question. I have this forum where I can ask things without feeling shame and where everyone is eager to help. And if you're new in this diabetes thing and you arrived here: Hi. We can do it, friend. We love our kitties so much. We would do anything to make their lives better. Wanna know a secret? It's day 3 of insulin and my cat played a lot today. And she came to the living room on her own for her shot. You've probably seen all those cats on youtube waiting patiently for their owners to give them the shot and to take their glucose. At the time, nothing is like that for you. The cat is running around through the house, meowing, being mad at you. You're not alone, I'm in the same place. But I know that with routine things will get better. They know we want what's best for them. And if they doubt it, they'll understand it once they feel better from the treatment. It's hard but we can do it for them.
First of all I wanted to thank everyone who has answered my frantic 2 am threads. You have all been so kind and welcoming and helped calm down my anxiety about this. It's day 3 and it's still hard but we're figuring out the things that work for us.
For a while, as I get used to taking my kitty's bg, I will be driving her to the 24/7 vet clinic that is close to my house. She kinda likes car rides and the doctors there are nice and it's not a terrible expense to do that, it's very affordable to me at the time and it makes things less stressful for the both of us. Of course, if it is incredibly necessary at a moment to immediately take her bg I will do so myself, but for her twice a day regular checkups we will go to the clinic.
We're still arriving at an average of 430 with our bg but I feel like a lot of it is stress. She's confused about me suddenly prickling her ears and chasing her around and she gets stressed easily. She's always been easy to stress out, just coughing in a room with her makes her grumpy. It's probably because she used to have an abusive owner before she was rehomed here. I remember when she was little how much I worked to gain her trust and how I was the only person she would meow or purr at for years. We have a bond built with effort and affection and lately I've suffered a lot thinking that it might break. I chase after her and I prick her ears and I pin her down to give her the insulin and I wake her up when I'm worried that she's twitching in her sleep (she's always been twitching and meowing in her sleep when she dreams). But everytime she comes back. She calms down after about an hour and she s back again in her favorite spot in front of my bedroom door, following me around the house, cuddling next to me on the couch.
Things are getting a little better. A tiny bit. And I'm hopeful that soon we'll adapt to this. I found her new food thanks to the help of one of the memebers her who sent me the list of low carb food. I'm ordering it tomorrow first thing in the morning and I'll start integrating it in her diet.
It's hard in the beginning. But it will get better, I know it will. All I need to do now is to calm down. I researched everything twenty times. I have 2 vets and a clinic on speed dial and I call them whenever I have a question. I have this forum where I can ask things without feeling shame and where everyone is eager to help. And if you're new in this diabetes thing and you arrived here: Hi. We can do it, friend. We love our kitties so much. We would do anything to make their lives better. Wanna know a secret? It's day 3 of insulin and my cat played a lot today. And she came to the living room on her own for her shot. You've probably seen all those cats on youtube waiting patiently for their owners to give them the shot and to take their glucose. At the time, nothing is like that for you. The cat is running around through the house, meowing, being mad at you. You're not alone, I'm in the same place. But I know that with routine things will get better. They know we want what's best for them. And if they doubt it, they'll understand it once they feel better from the treatment. It's hard but we can do it for them.
you described some of the struggles most of us went thru 
but it gets better very quickly 
