4/29 Autumn amps~315,pmps~328 Musette amps~308,pmps~252

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MommaOfMuse

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Not a bad start for Autumn, but was hoping for a lower number for Musette.

Autumn chowed down on a full can of Friskies last night, now this morning our goals for the day is to get her second shot in her, get her shaved so she can be more comfortable and start her antibiotics. To my surprise as weak and malnurished she is no neuropathy, she is still walking on her tip toes. She is growling and hissing at the other furkids but its got to be overwhelming for her after yesterday.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

Those BGs seem fortuitous. That is amazing about no neuropathy. I almost wonder if the body condition is as much from actual mistreatment as it is the FD. Seriously. How does anyone allow that to happen to a cat??? I can't imagine a cat which has lost so much weight because of this disease NOT having neuropathy.

I am glad she is home. I remember seeing her on DCIN's Facebooka and cringing.
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

I know what you mean, Musette hadn't lost nearly as much and she was very wobbly and down on her hocks that is why her foster dad kept her so long before the transport. Autumn is upright and very steady on her feet, although moves stiffly which I think is more from all those mats than from diabetes. I don't think she can move freely because her fur is so knotted that it gets in the way. She does have a really bad case of dandruff, but eating like a horse. And has enough tortietude to tell the others to back off when she is eating.

I was also expecting her to test much higher too, so I think this just may be a battle we can win and it really isn't going to take as much as I feared to turn her around. Heck Maxwell was 485 when he was pulled and Musette was well into the 400s when I first tested her at home so that 356 last night was good for all Autumn had been through.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

Nice +3 for Autumn at 208, not so hot for Musette at 328, not sure what the heck is going on with her, she seems happy enough but her numbers are staying high. Autumn on the other hand is getting a great drop on her first full day on insulin. Of course getting her on a proper diet is going to help bunches. But she is going to be tricky to get all the mats out of as most of them are clear down to the skin.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

I wonder if .50 is a smidge to much for Musette. I recall Sheila mentioning this is what was happening with Beau - that he was rebounding off of .4 and .5. Have you given any thought to trying .3?
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

Marcy stop reading my mind...I've been wondering the same thing with Ms. Musette which is what I think I'm going to try with her in the morning to see if I get better numbers. Plus telling her that she can't let her new baby sister beat her in the numbers game...lol

Well off to go clean litter boxes and shave a kitty, what a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon...lol

Mel, Maxwell, Musette, Autumn and the Fur Gang.
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

A wonderful way to spend an afternoon... the litterbox is my next stop :lol: .

Then the garden to see how my newly planted cuc's are doing.

Sneakers got into some bread last night (AFTER the chicken she pulled off the counter and gnawed) so her numbers will be like Musettes today :-| .
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

Well apparently the little talk with Musette is working...+6 = 190
Autumn +6 = 127 and the best part just got a ketone test in ....we are negative for ketones...woot! woot!

Mel, Maxwell, Musette, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

Neg ketones is the best news yet! Well, it's all good, but you know....

Good numbers on Autumn - and not so bad on Musette either. What dose are you on with Autumn? I wonder if she will need a reduction soon if these are her first day's numbers? Have you shaved her yet? Waiting to her how that goes.
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

I started Autumn on 1u but if she keeps this up she is going to need a reduction very soon. I haven't gotten shaved yet, waiting until after she eats her lunch, although I did cut out some of them around her face this morning because they looks like they were preventing her from opening her mouth all the way. The rest are so close to her skin all over her body I feel so bad for her but there is just no way to get scissors in that close and I'm almost scared the clippers are going to get her too. so I'm stealing DH's beard trimmer in a little bit and see if that is thin enough to get between the mats and her skin without nicking her. My clippers are left over from my horse ownership days and I think they are too thick to get inbetween the mats and her skin.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

Okay now I'm really angry at Autumn's person....started trying to shave her...not happening without getting her skin. So for the last two hours she has laid in my lap while I have used tiny embrodiary scissors to clip hair by hair like removing basting threads because the mats have her skin twisted and pinched in the mats. Now if that wasn't enough to have me seeing red, I have found 3 whole kennels of corn in the mats, and she has a couple of places where the mats have rubbed holes in her skin like bed sores. And yet she kept nuzzling me and purring as I worked on her. After two hours we have only gotten the two small mats by her mouth out and about half of a large on that takes up most of her left side. Right now we are both taking a break. How she could be allowed to get this bad is almost criminal...Poor Poor Baby girl.

Mel, Maxwell, Musette, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Re: 4/29 Autumn amps~315, Musette amps~308

Oh my, that is awful! Poor girl. She sounds like a real sweetie to let you work like that and stay on your lap. I have done a lot of seam ripping with tiny instruments, so I know how painstaking you are going. Just remember that even snipping a few rows through the middle will help give some "slack" and reduce the pulling.

I have never heard of, let alone experienced, mats like that pulling the skin and causing wounds. Geeze. She is going to be so happy once you get her trimmed out of that straight jacket she is imprisoned in.

Mel, know that you have dozens of people cheering you on for each hair you get loosened.
 
I haven't read everyone's comments, but I wonder if maybe you shouldn't drop back to .5u for Autumn. It always seems easier to work your way up the dose scale with the L's. I hate to see her bounce like that.
 
Poor Autumn. Hope you get her cleaned up soon. She must feel awful. I wonder how she got that bad. edited to add- I just found Lulu/Autumn's story on dcin- after I saw your transport post. Youre an angel, what a lucky girl. (can't believe she wasn't treated for 10 months, wow!)

I have a long haired cat, Curley. I got a few tips on getting mats out from reading your posts. I didn't realize that the skin pulled when the hair was matted. I have to work a little harder on getting the one he has by his rear end off asap.
 
Shaving is the only way to handle bad mats. I had to shave Gandalf for the first time after the U of I gave him a bath and he wasn't combed out afterwards. He'd never had a bath his whole life!! As long as you groom them, I don't believe bathing is necessary.

My vet clinic once showed me a "mat" they shaved off a calico cat. It was 2 inches thick, compacted and the size of a football! Horrible. You could barely bend it, it was so hard. I sincerely hope Autumn is not that bad.
 
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