Re: 3/18 Guinness|+5 288|+9 339|PMPS 444|+3 389
Linda, yep, its official...we're twins. I drive my family crazy because I need to be in control of everything. To this day, I still try to tell my daughter how to dress (and I'm still usually right!!). I've had such a hard time with this because, no matter how hard I've tried, I haven't yet succeeded in making my hairy baby feel better. When he acts so totally different from his usual self, like sleeping all the time (the kind where you can barely wake him up), it scares the crap out of me. Because I work at home, he and I have been best buds since the day my daughter and I brought him home from the rescue agency 10 years ago. He used to follow me around the house, sit in the bathroom when I brushed my teeth and put on my make-up, slept at the foot of my bed, and slept in his little bed on a table next to my desk when I was working. He doesn't do any of these things anymore. He usually just finds a closet or a corner in the back bedroom to sleep. Everyone once in a while I see a spark of the old Champ, usually in the mornings, where he wants to play and he will stay awake for a few hours, but by 11 a.m., its nighty night. I see that Guinness' numbers are even higher than Champ's and I know how it makes you feel. The first two weeks of visiting this board, I cried ALL the time, I was just so worried. At the end of last week was when I finally had my breakthrough...I finally realized that I'm doing the very best I can to make him well. If he doesn't get well, it's not because I didn't try because I'm putting everything I've got into this. And I know you are too with Guinness. And I truly believe our kitties know this. At Champ's initial vet visit, all the blood work for other problems came back negative. He was perfect except for the high blood sugar. Just yesterday, I felt a lump on his side, but I don't know if its like a cyst in the skin or if it's fixed to the muscle underneath. I'm going to feel it every day and see if it grows or changes in any way. I'm going to have to take him to the vet for a follow-up one of these days soon so I'll mention it to the vet and see what she thinks. I'm thinking there's probably nothing else wrong with Guinness...he might have just dipped his toes in the diabetes waters last time and this time decided to jump in the deep end. The little pooh!! I'm going to make myself be patient, even if it kills me. I'm going to throw logic out the window (that will be sooo hard!!), play by the rules, and hope Champ responds sooner rather than later. Good luck with your journey, too. I love Guinness' "Oooh, is that a camera?" look in his picture!! I know this is long, but sometimes it feels really good to talk to someone with the same type of personality cuz I know you'll relate.
