Melanie and Smokey
Member Since 2010
Hello! Long time away from the boards. With caring for cats, trapping, socializing... just haven't had the time.
Tinkerbell's Test Schedule
Our new charge is Tinkerbell. She first came to Homeward back in 2015 at the same time we had Sly in foster for them so she stayed at the shelter and they were able to get her into remission on Lantus and adopted out 10/2015 (I do not know any of the numbers she was getting that they considered remission or her previous dose).
Tinkerbell came back to the shelter the beginning of May. Skinny and a raging appetite - out of remission and the adopter had not had her BG tested once during the time she had her.
Over the 4th of July weekend the shelter manager asked if we could watch Tink because she wasn't eating. She ended up being hospitalized for 24hrs after a pancreatitis diagnosis.
We had had her in foster a weekend before that while the shelter did some maintenance on the kennels and to run a curve for the vet. From what I see, it looks like just not enough insulin. I am working with a new vet on her, but she seems to be one fairly up on diabetes.
My concern is that we may be going too slow on the insulin and the constant high numbers are what caused the p-titis to flare. I am using the AT for a couple reasons, (1) ease of working with this vet, (2) We currently have 2 insulin dependent and 3 diet controlled in the house, plus former foster Lincoln comes to visit, with some of my meters out on loan, I am just out of meters!
If anyone wants to look at her spread and give some input, that would be great.
thoughts:
-I did adjust her 0.5U instead of 0.25U to the 3U because of her high numbers at the time. What is typically considered "high dose" that the 0.5U adjustment is used instead of 0.25U according to TR. Now that we are seeing some blues peek thru, I am not as concerned, but she is still flying high much of the time.
-She has some of the wide facial features, prominent jaw, etc that can come with an acro cat. At what dose do people usually look at the IAA and acro testing?
-The vet feels that because there was vomiting despite Cerenia on board the first night on the p-titis flare that there is likely a mass issue going on and wants to do some ultrasound at some point.
Tink is one of the SWEETEST cats ever. Any FD savy person want to adopt her?
She is not cat friendly. We now have 2 fosters that are the sweetest cats, but hate other cats + FD so they are finding it hard to get adopted 
Tinkerbell's Test Schedule
Our new charge is Tinkerbell. She first came to Homeward back in 2015 at the same time we had Sly in foster for them so she stayed at the shelter and they were able to get her into remission on Lantus and adopted out 10/2015 (I do not know any of the numbers she was getting that they considered remission or her previous dose).
Tinkerbell came back to the shelter the beginning of May. Skinny and a raging appetite - out of remission and the adopter had not had her BG tested once during the time she had her.
Over the 4th of July weekend the shelter manager asked if we could watch Tink because she wasn't eating. She ended up being hospitalized for 24hrs after a pancreatitis diagnosis.
We had had her in foster a weekend before that while the shelter did some maintenance on the kennels and to run a curve for the vet. From what I see, it looks like just not enough insulin. I am working with a new vet on her, but she seems to be one fairly up on diabetes.
My concern is that we may be going too slow on the insulin and the constant high numbers are what caused the p-titis to flare. I am using the AT for a couple reasons, (1) ease of working with this vet, (2) We currently have 2 insulin dependent and 3 diet controlled in the house, plus former foster Lincoln comes to visit, with some of my meters out on loan, I am just out of meters!
If anyone wants to look at her spread and give some input, that would be great.
thoughts:
-I did adjust her 0.5U instead of 0.25U to the 3U because of her high numbers at the time. What is typically considered "high dose" that the 0.5U adjustment is used instead of 0.25U according to TR. Now that we are seeing some blues peek thru, I am not as concerned, but she is still flying high much of the time.
-She has some of the wide facial features, prominent jaw, etc that can come with an acro cat. At what dose do people usually look at the IAA and acro testing?
-The vet feels that because there was vomiting despite Cerenia on board the first night on the p-titis flare that there is likely a mass issue going on and wants to do some ultrasound at some point.
Tink is one of the SWEETEST cats ever. Any FD savy person want to adopt her?
She is not cat friendly. We now have 2 fosters that are the sweetest cats, but hate other cats + FD so they are finding it hard to get adopted 
