Barb and Tori
Member Since 2009
Yesterday's Post: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17001
Good morning everyone in Lantus Land. Are you ready to party? Today we are celebrating Tori's 5 Year Annifurary of having the Direbeasties. Yes it's been 5 years. Hard to believe. Everything is set up for the party. Tori and I have been working hard to get the yard set up and the food and Tunaritas all ready. All we need now is you guys. It's a beautiful day here in Edmonton. COme onel come all!
I said that Today I would tell you our story for those who aren't familiar with it. Tori was diagnosed just before her 9th birthday 5 years ago. She'd been losing weight, was having a love affair with her water dish and was peeing like a race horse. So I took her in for a check up. That was the day that we met Dr Doug. He had just graduated and had just joined the practice. It was a lucky day for us. He has been her vet ever since. He's a great guy. We have learned a lot on this journey together. Our journey has certainly been an interesting one. We have seen some pretty high highs and some pretty low lows. We started on NPH insulin right away.
Less than one week after diagnosis Tori became very ill. Her eyes started running like crazy, she wouldn't eat. She just looked sick. Her BG was up higher than it had ever been in the high 500s. It turned out she had a dental abcess in her top canine. She wound up having an emergency dental with a BG of 600 the next day. Poor Doug looking back he must have been scared to death.
After that things calmed down apart from her hypoing on me a month later. She went down to less than 20 and I couldn't get her back up so she spent the day getting IV glucose. After that she was switched to Canninsulin. Things went well but no sign of remission. Then Rocky her brother got very sick with his IBD. I decided to switch to a raw food diet and guess what -not only did it help Rocky but Tori went into remission and stayed there for just over 2 years.
In October 2008 Tori started to be bothered with arthritis and a degenerative disc in her back. Doug decided to put her on a very low dose of Metacam. If only I'd known what I know know she never would have received it. She reacted badly to it. She became very ill. She had such bad Gastrtis that she actually vomited up a piece of her stomach mucosa. She then became septic and developed Pancreatitis as well. We almost lost her. She started to recover though but couldn't eat so we put in a feeding tube which she had for a month. Unfortunately though her Pancreas was unable to recover and she has been back on Insulin ever since.
Tori now has Chronic Pancreatitis. She has had 2 severe flares since then which required hospitalization and some minor flares that we have been able to treat at home. We always be grateful to Jojo for and the rest of you with CP kitties who have taught us how to manage her CP at home.
So that is our journey. It has been filled with many challenges. I have been blest with the most marvelous kitty in the world. She's a real fighter my little girl and I couldn't love her more or be more proud of her. This week we will face another challenge. Possibly the biggest one yet. Tori has an enlarged lymph node in her neck. It will be biopsied on Thursday. I sam very nervous about this .
ANYWAY TODAY WE PARTY!! COME JOIN US EVERYBODY! LET'S HAVE A PARTY TO REMEMBER!
Good morning everyone in Lantus Land. Are you ready to party? Today we are celebrating Tori's 5 Year Annifurary of having the Direbeasties. Yes it's been 5 years. Hard to believe. Everything is set up for the party. Tori and I have been working hard to get the yard set up and the food and Tunaritas all ready. All we need now is you guys. It's a beautiful day here in Edmonton. COme onel come all!
I said that Today I would tell you our story for those who aren't familiar with it. Tori was diagnosed just before her 9th birthday 5 years ago. She'd been losing weight, was having a love affair with her water dish and was peeing like a race horse. So I took her in for a check up. That was the day that we met Dr Doug. He had just graduated and had just joined the practice. It was a lucky day for us. He has been her vet ever since. He's a great guy. We have learned a lot on this journey together. Our journey has certainly been an interesting one. We have seen some pretty high highs and some pretty low lows. We started on NPH insulin right away.
Less than one week after diagnosis Tori became very ill. Her eyes started running like crazy, she wouldn't eat. She just looked sick. Her BG was up higher than it had ever been in the high 500s. It turned out she had a dental abcess in her top canine. She wound up having an emergency dental with a BG of 600 the next day. Poor Doug looking back he must have been scared to death.
After that things calmed down apart from her hypoing on me a month later. She went down to less than 20 and I couldn't get her back up so she spent the day getting IV glucose. After that she was switched to Canninsulin. Things went well but no sign of remission. Then Rocky her brother got very sick with his IBD. I decided to switch to a raw food diet and guess what -not only did it help Rocky but Tori went into remission and stayed there for just over 2 years.
In October 2008 Tori started to be bothered with arthritis and a degenerative disc in her back. Doug decided to put her on a very low dose of Metacam. If only I'd known what I know know she never would have received it. She reacted badly to it. She became very ill. She had such bad Gastrtis that she actually vomited up a piece of her stomach mucosa. She then became septic and developed Pancreatitis as well. We almost lost her. She started to recover though but couldn't eat so we put in a feeding tube which she had for a month. Unfortunately though her Pancreas was unable to recover and she has been back on Insulin ever since.
Tori now has Chronic Pancreatitis. She has had 2 severe flares since then which required hospitalization and some minor flares that we have been able to treat at home. We always be grateful to Jojo for and the rest of you with CP kitties who have taught us how to manage her CP at home.
So that is our journey. It has been filled with many challenges. I have been blest with the most marvelous kitty in the world. She's a real fighter my little girl and I couldn't love her more or be more proud of her. This week we will face another challenge. Possibly the biggest one yet. Tori has an enlarged lymph node in her neck. It will be biopsied on Thursday. I sam very nervous about this .
ANYWAY TODAY WE PARTY!! COME JOIN US EVERYBODY! LET'S HAVE A PARTY TO REMEMBER!
