Janet and Izzy (GA)
Member Since 2013
Hello All.
As you can see from my signature Izzy is a 17 year old female maine coon. I have had her since she was bout 8-9 months old. About 3 years ago, she was extremely ill, 15 days at the Vet Clinic and diagnosed withe renal disease. Honestly I think we all thought she was going to die. She is allergic to corn, wheat and soy so no veterinary diet was going to work for her so we went along doing our own thing. I fed her Now Grain free, which is one of he lower phosphorus foods, fancy feast pate's, sheba pates, and still try to get her to eat higher quality foods, but she doth protest that
The end of June she was again sick. Stubling and barely walking. I got her into the Vet and once the kept her overnight until the bloodwork came back at over 800. She stayed there for 7 days and they started her on 1unit of Lantus 2x a day....and here we are I have been following DCIN for a couple years now, donating and such so I had a tiny big of knowledge about diabetes....at least enough to know this didn't have to be a death sentence...hence she got to stay 7 days at the Vet to see if we could get some numbers down and start her on home insulin etc. And obviously I have been lurking around Tanya CRF site for the past 3 years.
I have been posting on the main board and have had LOTS of help from Wendy & Tiggy, Deb & Wink and BJM. My spreadsheet was set up for me (thank you, thank you!) and I have been trying to make her into my kitty pin cushion as often as I can to track her numbers. Her first week home she was down in the blues and greens getting as low as 61. So per the recommendations here we took her to .5 2x per day, but her numbers went up into yellow and pink. The past 2 days we are at .75 per my best guess, and her numbers have yet to come down much,so it was suggested I start posting here.
So here we are
She had her post week check up on Friday and except for her numbers, the Vet was extremely pleased at how she was looking. She is moving around more and at least trying to use the litter box, albeit 1/2 of her in and 1/2 on the pee pad lol But she is trying. She had an upper respiratory something fierce and has only been feeling better the past 4 days. She is alert, giving me the stink eye when come by and especially if she hears the glucometer beep lol, but is being a real trooper.
I did order new syringes with the 1/2 marks which arrived yesterday.
Not sure what else to post in my very first message here.
As you can see from my signature Izzy is a 17 year old female maine coon. I have had her since she was bout 8-9 months old. About 3 years ago, she was extremely ill, 15 days at the Vet Clinic and diagnosed withe renal disease. Honestly I think we all thought she was going to die. She is allergic to corn, wheat and soy so no veterinary diet was going to work for her so we went along doing our own thing. I fed her Now Grain free, which is one of he lower phosphorus foods, fancy feast pate's, sheba pates, and still try to get her to eat higher quality foods, but she doth protest that
The end of June she was again sick. Stubling and barely walking. I got her into the Vet and once the kept her overnight until the bloodwork came back at over 800. She stayed there for 7 days and they started her on 1unit of Lantus 2x a day....and here we are
I have been following DCIN for a couple years now, donating and such so I had a tiny big of knowledge about diabetes....at least enough to know this didn't have to be a death sentence...hence she got to stay 7 days at the Vet to see if we could get some numbers down and start her on home insulin etc. And obviously I have been lurking around Tanya CRF site for the past 3 years.I have been posting on the main board and have had LOTS of help from Wendy & Tiggy, Deb & Wink and BJM. My spreadsheet was set up for me (thank you, thank you!) and I have been trying to make her into my kitty pin cushion as often as I can to track her numbers. Her first week home she was down in the blues and greens getting as low as 61. So per the recommendations here we took her to .5 2x per day, but her numbers went up into yellow and pink. The past 2 days we are at .75 per my best guess, and her numbers have yet to come down much,so it was suggested I start posting here.
So here we are
She had her post week check up on Friday and except for her numbers, the Vet was extremely pleased at how she was looking. She is moving around more and at least trying to use the litter box, albeit 1/2 of her in and 1/2 on the pee pad lol But she is trying. She had an upper respiratory something fierce and has only been feeling better the past 4 days. She is alert, giving me the stink eye when come by and especially if she hears the glucometer beep lol, but is being a real trooper.
I did order new syringes with the 1/2 marks which arrived yesterday.
Not sure what else to post in my very first message here.
