Gabriela and Sunday
Member Since 2016
My name is Gabriela and I'm on this forum for my 10-year-old cat Sunday who currently lives with my mother in NYC.
Sunday and I met when I was in my second year of middle school (on a Sunday) where she followed me to/from the bus stop to school. After moving in with us Sunday got pregnant twice from escaping the house and was promptly spayed for it. Never really recovering from her mommy weight, the spaying, or the fact that she was free-fed excess dry food she ended up getting pretty heavy.
Cut to just recently, my mother had to take Sunday to the vet for an emergency visit and found that Sunday was diabetic due to her weight. (24lbs) Our doctor was iffy about giving numbers as just the process of taking her blood stressed Sunday out so much she almost passed out on the exam table.
According to the vet Sunday was dealing with:
-Abscess in tooth (Reason for emergency visit)
- Tooth removal surgery
- Diabetes
- Fluid in lungs due to pneumonia (Another reason for emergency visit)
Sunday is on antibiotics now for the pneumonia; her abscess was drained during her overnight emergency stay, and her tooth removal surgery is scheduled for within the next two weeks.
Of course after hearing all of this, my boyfriend and I decided to bring Sunday to live with us and our two dogs in Pennsylvania. It just seems like Sunday needs a little bit more attention than my mom can offer at the moment. (Medically)
While preparing for Sunday's move, I've been doing A LOT of research and have been back and forth with our vet as to how we can healthily get her on a weight loss plan. We've heard from multiple sources that if she safely loses her weight, she may be able to send her diabetes into remission.
Sunday will be living with us by the end of the month, and I'd love to be more involved in this forum/ better prepared by then.
Please allow me to learn as much as possible from you all to make Sunday's recovery (and move) as stress-free as possible. I would also really love to have a space where I could communicate with like-minded individuals dealing with the same process.
Thank you for reading my novel. *Deep sigh* I look forward to meeting all of you around the forums!
Sunday and I met when I was in my second year of middle school (on a Sunday) where she followed me to/from the bus stop to school. After moving in with us Sunday got pregnant twice from escaping the house and was promptly spayed for it. Never really recovering from her mommy weight, the spaying, or the fact that she was free-fed excess dry food she ended up getting pretty heavy.
Cut to just recently, my mother had to take Sunday to the vet for an emergency visit and found that Sunday was diabetic due to her weight. (24lbs) Our doctor was iffy about giving numbers as just the process of taking her blood stressed Sunday out so much she almost passed out on the exam table.
According to the vet Sunday was dealing with:
-Abscess in tooth (Reason for emergency visit)
- Tooth removal surgery
- Diabetes
- Fluid in lungs due to pneumonia (Another reason for emergency visit)
Sunday is on antibiotics now for the pneumonia; her abscess was drained during her overnight emergency stay, and her tooth removal surgery is scheduled for within the next two weeks.
Of course after hearing all of this, my boyfriend and I decided to bring Sunday to live with us and our two dogs in Pennsylvania. It just seems like Sunday needs a little bit more attention than my mom can offer at the moment. (Medically)
While preparing for Sunday's move, I've been doing A LOT of research and have been back and forth with our vet as to how we can healthily get her on a weight loss plan. We've heard from multiple sources that if she safely loses her weight, she may be able to send her diabetes into remission.
Sunday will be living with us by the end of the month, and I'd love to be more involved in this forum/ better prepared by then.
Please allow me to learn as much as possible from you all to make Sunday's recovery (and move) as stress-free as possible. I would also really love to have a space where I could communicate with like-minded individuals dealing with the same process.
Thank you for reading my novel. *Deep sigh* I look forward to meeting all of you around the forums!
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