Jodey&Eddie&Blue
Member Since 2021
Hello Everyone,
here's yesterday: https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/06-02-blue-amps-160-update-pmps-146.278183/
I'm so excited! Blue is HOME!! As I said, I spoke with the vet nurse this morning (5:00am) and Blue had yet to poop. I then agreed with the clinic that he might well feel more comfortable to use the kitty box if he was at home. I called them back @ 9:00am to tell them I decided to bring him home instead of just visiting him there in the clinic. They weren't available at the time but while I was in the car to go and get some cat food for Eddie and the crew, the phone rang and it was the vet who announced "He has pooped!!!" And we were kind of shouting in celebration about that. She said though that he hadn't pooped out everything so to be prepared for that to happen at home. She also said that around the same time they noticed the NG tube had broken so they removed it.
I picked Eddie's food and cat grass and some kale salad (for me
) and drove to the clinic for Blue. When he was brought to me in the examination room, the vet nurse said "You'll be glad to know that after you got off the phone he pooped enough for 3 large cats!" She said they were all shouting happily in the clinic when that happened.
I don't know about y'all but somehow I think something "cosmic" happened (call it magical thinking if you like). When I decided earlier that instead of leaving Blue in the clinic and visiting him, I would bring him home, I felt as if a tension had dissolved, as if I had just surrendered the hyper-focussed position of having him in the clinic because I was fearful I couldn't care for him like they could. I thought, "Maybe I'm wrong" and "maybe it would be a good idea for him to be at home". So, the "cosmic" part of this is that he appears to have pooped (time-wise) around the same time I decided he was coming home. I had even phone the vet but they couldn't talk to me as they were doing rounds. And, the broken NG line??
So, here we are. I let Blue out of the carrier. He immediately peed in the box and then walked (a little clunkily) into the kitchen and I offered him a little food. He ended up eating a bowl of food. He's now on one of his favourite stairs in the back (it gets sun) and is sleeping like a boss.
They didn't give him insulin after they took his BG this morning: 101. So, we'll see what tonight brings (does anyone know why it costs $18.91 for them to take a BG reading in the clinic.
)
Phew. I think I'll take a nap.
Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone for your support.
here's yesterday: https://felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/06-02-blue-amps-160-update-pmps-146.278183/
I'm so excited! Blue is HOME!! As I said, I spoke with the vet nurse this morning (5:00am) and Blue had yet to poop. I then agreed with the clinic that he might well feel more comfortable to use the kitty box if he was at home. I called them back @ 9:00am to tell them I decided to bring him home instead of just visiting him there in the clinic. They weren't available at the time but while I was in the car to go and get some cat food for Eddie and the crew, the phone rang and it was the vet who announced "He has pooped!!!" And we were kind of shouting in celebration about that. She said though that he hadn't pooped out everything so to be prepared for that to happen at home. She also said that around the same time they noticed the NG tube had broken so they removed it.
I picked Eddie's food and cat grass and some kale salad (for me
) and drove to the clinic for Blue. When he was brought to me in the examination room, the vet nurse said "You'll be glad to know that after you got off the phone he pooped enough for 3 large cats!" She said they were all shouting happily in the clinic when that happened. I don't know about y'all but somehow I think something "cosmic" happened (call it magical thinking if you like). When I decided earlier that instead of leaving Blue in the clinic and visiting him, I would bring him home, I felt as if a tension had dissolved, as if I had just surrendered the hyper-focussed position of having him in the clinic because I was fearful I couldn't care for him like they could. I thought, "Maybe I'm wrong" and "maybe it would be a good idea for him to be at home". So, the "cosmic" part of this is that he appears to have pooped (time-wise) around the same time I decided he was coming home. I had even phone the vet but they couldn't talk to me as they were doing rounds. And, the broken NG line??
So, here we are. I let Blue out of the carrier. He immediately peed in the box and then walked (a little clunkily) into the kitchen and I offered him a little food. He ended up eating a bowl of food. He's now on one of his favourite stairs in the back (it gets sun) and is sleeping like a boss.
They didn't give him insulin after they took his BG this morning: 101. So, we'll see what tonight brings (does anyone know why it costs $18.91 for them to take a BG reading in the clinic.
) Phew. I think I'll take a nap.
Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone for your support.
