We lost Xuxu last Monday. The crash was too deep, I couldn't overcome it in time. He'd been stable for about 3 weeks but then something changed physiologically again. He crashed on Fri, Sat and Sunday. The amounts the previous weeks were suddenly too much and I reduced it each day. He was still going back up to 750 within 12 hours, so he wasn't reverting. It was hard on him, he was clearly tired, not bouncing back as usual. It was horrible to hold him while he died, having seizures. I kept trying to get karo down him, and I'm sure I aspirated some with his thrashing around. On a holiday, the emergency room was the only thing open. But it was 30 minutes away and I knew that he would either be better or dead before we got there so I didn't even try to go. But if I'd known he'd go this way, I probably would have put him to sleep earlier. My vet says that seizures don't really cause pain, but it's hard to believe that he wasn't in hurting.
The Virginia State Lab is just an hour away and they do a complete necropsy, including brain, for $160 with histopathology. My vet talked with them and they were very interested in Xuxu's case. They usually get farm animals, rarely pets. If it was insulinoma, then the director wants to write it up for a vet journal. I've certainly got all the background information, BG, blood tests, ultrasound documented for them. It was hard to let him go, we won't get the body back. We usually bury them in the woods at the back of our property and plant some flowering perennial or bulb over the grave. But that is for us, not him.
I'l post the results when I get them, they said it would be 3-4 weeks.
Thanks everyone for all your support and information. I coudln't have given him the last months I had without you. He had been a rescue from a breeder, a caged mail (but a big cage). At least we were able to give him 8 months as a loved pet.
The Virginia State Lab is just an hour away and they do a complete necropsy, including brain, for $160 with histopathology. My vet talked with them and they were very interested in Xuxu's case. They usually get farm animals, rarely pets. If it was insulinoma, then the director wants to write it up for a vet journal. I've certainly got all the background information, BG, blood tests, ultrasound documented for them. It was hard to let him go, we won't get the body back. We usually bury them in the woods at the back of our property and plant some flowering perennial or bulb over the grave. But that is for us, not him.
I'l post the results when I get them, they said it would be 3-4 weeks.
Thanks everyone for all your support and information. I coudln't have given him the last months I had without you. He had been a rescue from a breeder, a caged mail (but a big cage). At least we were able to give him 8 months as a loved pet.
