Lydia & Sid & Jake(GA)
Member Since 2010
Hi everyone,
Happy New Year!
Thank you for all of your good thoughts and well wishes for Sid. They are working!!!
I tried to post an update on Sid yesterday but the site locked up and then I refreshed and my post was gone. I was too tired to repost it. I just figured out it is locking up because I scanned his bloodwork values from the hospital into an attachment and was trying to upload it but realize now it is probably more useful to you if I just update his SS. Do you want to see his other bloodwork? I can retype rather than attach if it will help in some way.
So here is a little bit of a delayed update. He has been in the emergency hospital for 4 days. They have had Sid's glucose under relative control and he has not had any more ketones since the first day. The problem now is with the kidneys. He went into the hospital with relatively normal values (48) spiked up over 100 and is now at 75; the CRE did the same thing. I took him in and the values were 1.0, spiked up to 5.5 and now are 4.8. They've been giving him both "regular" short acting insulin and 1u of lantus.
Marjorie, your experience with your ARF kitty gives me hope. Maybe his values will get back to normal!!
As of tonight, he is now eating on his own, drinking, acting perky. I go and visit him twice/day and tonight he was talking up a storm to me and head butting my nose. (We are having a snow storm right now but I couldn't let that keep me from seeing my buddy and it was so nice to see him being so talky
.) I posted a photo of him here on this post, hopefully I did it right... He looks lethargic but he is actually rolling on his back for a belly rub. His belly is shaved for an ultrasound (which showed no abnormality in either kidney).
I told the vet that I am taking him home tomorrow morning - I mean, the bill is already very expensive and this place is just an emergency hospital open 24 hours/day. The vets are not specialists (as far as I know). I feel I can treat him pretty well at home. I can give him fluids - I already do that for another cat here every day. I will check his ketone level every day too. And take him back in a couple of days for a blood check.
last condo: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=59758
http://felinediabetes.com/gallery3/index.php/Lydia-Jake-GA/Sid-hospital-visit
*edited to fix the links.
Happy New Year!
Thank you for all of your good thoughts and well wishes for Sid. They are working!!!
I tried to post an update on Sid yesterday but the site locked up and then I refreshed and my post was gone. I was too tired to repost it. I just figured out it is locking up because I scanned his bloodwork values from the hospital into an attachment and was trying to upload it but realize now it is probably more useful to you if I just update his SS. Do you want to see his other bloodwork? I can retype rather than attach if it will help in some way.
So here is a little bit of a delayed update. He has been in the emergency hospital for 4 days. They have had Sid's glucose under relative control and he has not had any more ketones since the first day. The problem now is with the kidneys. He went into the hospital with relatively normal values (48) spiked up over 100 and is now at 75; the CRE did the same thing. I took him in and the values were 1.0, spiked up to 5.5 and now are 4.8. They've been giving him both "regular" short acting insulin and 1u of lantus.
Marjorie, your experience with your ARF kitty gives me hope. Maybe his values will get back to normal!!
As of tonight, he is now eating on his own, drinking, acting perky. I go and visit him twice/day and tonight he was talking up a storm to me and head butting my nose. (We are having a snow storm right now but I couldn't let that keep me from seeing my buddy and it was so nice to see him being so talky
.) I posted a photo of him here on this post, hopefully I did it right... He looks lethargic but he is actually rolling on his back for a belly rub. His belly is shaved for an ultrasound (which showed no abnormality in either kidney). I told the vet that I am taking him home tomorrow morning - I mean, the bill is already very expensive and this place is just an emergency hospital open 24 hours/day. The vets are not specialists (as far as I know). I feel I can treat him pretty well at home. I can give him fluids - I already do that for another cat here every day. I will check his ketone level every day too. And take him back in a couple of days for a blood check.
last condo: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=59758
http://felinediabetes.com/gallery3/index.php/Lydia-Jake-GA/Sid-hospital-visit
*edited to fix the links.
