Cara and Wynken (GA)
Member Since 2012
THANK YOU... ALL for the tremendous support and concern and VINES, last night.
I haven't posted for months, but some of you may recall that last February I took Wynken to Ohio State Vet Univ. to have an evaluation by a feline diabetic specialist, because he just didn't seem to respond to insulin the way other kitties do. He was on Prozinc at the time. He had a tip to tail exam and many things were ruled out. Actually nothing of note was found.
Dr Chen Gilor started him on Lev at that time. While initially promising, we have never achieved very good regulation.
Also, I am gone too much to push his dose and do TR... I never know in advance when I'm not going to be able to get home to check him during the day, so I conservatively have been moving his dose in tiny increments using the digital calipers. But this crisis is not about his diabetes...
I am absolutely overwhelmed at how supportive you all are, when I haven't even been on the board! With all of my other cats, and a very demanding job I just don't have time to post daily. But this is the first place I thought of when I was so upset last night - so Thank you!
I was able to sleep for about 4 1/2 hours, but in the middle of that, the doctor called with some preliminary test results.
His BG was *very* high (they measured it in the high 400 to low 500 range), can't recall numbers... Too sleepy. I had explained that I had switched to a human meter, and that I kept my alpha track 2 only to check him occasionally, and that I knew there was a difference in how the meters read. I told him he was on levemir, but they decided to use what they had, she kept calling it "Regular" ...So pPresumably Humalin R? But he is not wanting to eat (does not surprise me with all that's going on). She said she offered him "diabetic canned food"
My priority today is to get back down there with his normal canned favorites. I sure hope he'll eat for me!
She also gave me her & a specialist's assessment of x-rays they had taken of his heart and lungs, that she said were not indicative of heart disease necessarily, but that the cardiologist she had consulted with agreed that the heart was "slightly enlarged".
His urine was very dilute - but that could be because my local veterinarian had given him some Lasix before we went down there (as well as heparin and a pain med.)
Then she described all of his blood results… And I was extremely sleepy, so I didn't catch it all, but I feel fairly knowledgeable about each of the blood parameters, so as I heard it I felt I absorbed what she said. Nothing indicating kidney or liver issues.
The big "flag" is that his white blood cell count is extremely high. I believe she said that it was neutrophils, and one other type of white blood cell. She said that it indicated some sort of infection (Obviously) or even cancer.
Today he will be referred to their internal medicine specialist with a cardiac consult to continue to understand the clot. They will do an ultrasound of his abdomen to look for mass/tumor.
I will post more updates when I can, when I know more.
I haven't posted for months, but some of you may recall that last February I took Wynken to Ohio State Vet Univ. to have an evaluation by a feline diabetic specialist, because he just didn't seem to respond to insulin the way other kitties do. He was on Prozinc at the time. He had a tip to tail exam and many things were ruled out. Actually nothing of note was found.
Dr Chen Gilor started him on Lev at that time. While initially promising, we have never achieved very good regulation.
Also, I am gone too much to push his dose and do TR... I never know in advance when I'm not going to be able to get home to check him during the day, so I conservatively have been moving his dose in tiny increments using the digital calipers. But this crisis is not about his diabetes... I am absolutely overwhelmed at how supportive you all are, when I haven't even been on the board!
With all of my other cats, and a very demanding job I just don't have time to post daily. But this is the first place I thought of when I was so upset last night - so Thank you!I was able to sleep for about 4 1/2 hours, but in the middle of that, the doctor called with some preliminary test results.
His BG was *very* high (they measured it in the high 400 to low 500 range), can't recall numbers... Too sleepy. I had explained that I had switched to a human meter, and that I kept my alpha track 2 only to check him occasionally, and that I knew there was a difference in how the meters read. I told him he was on levemir, but they decided to use what they had, she kept calling it "Regular" ...So pPresumably Humalin R? But he is not wanting to eat (does not surprise me with all that's going on). She said she offered him "diabetic canned food"
My priority today is to get back down there with his normal canned favorites. I sure hope he'll eat for me!She also gave me her & a specialist's assessment of x-rays they had taken of his heart and lungs, that she said were not indicative of heart disease necessarily, but that the cardiologist she had consulted with agreed that the heart was "slightly enlarged".
His urine was very dilute - but that could be because my local veterinarian had given him some Lasix before we went down there (as well as heparin and a pain med.)
Then she described all of his blood results… And I was extremely sleepy, so I didn't catch it all, but I feel fairly knowledgeable about each of the blood parameters, so as I heard it I felt I absorbed what she said. Nothing indicating kidney or liver issues.
The big "flag" is that his white blood cell count is extremely high. I believe she said that it was neutrophils, and one other type of white blood cell. She said that it indicated some sort of infection (Obviously) or even cancer.
Today he will be referred to their internal medicine specialist with a cardiac consult to continue to understand the clot. They will do an ultrasound of his abdomen to look for mass/tumor.
I will post more updates when I can, when I know more.
