Hello, thank you for accepting me into your group, I was directed here from the Facebook page 'Welcome to feline diabetes facebook group' My cat George aged 14 was diagnosed with diabetes 3 weeks ago after losing a lot of weight suddenly and drinking excessive amounts of water. He is having twice daily insulin shots which has bought his insulin levels down from 6.6 to 3, I live in france and understand that they measure differently here than the rest of the world, my vet says that normal is between 0.5 and 1.5 and he would like to get george down to at least 2, he had put George on Royal canin dried biscuits but George hated them and didn't eat much for the last few weeks, last night on the FB page I was told i could feed George with Friskies terrine from the super market instead of the biscuits which aren't good for him anyway. He is eating the food with gusto for the first time and it's lovely to see.
My husband and I have hit hard times ( an understatement actually) My husband was a builder and unfortunately last November he slipped in the wet, off of a roof he was reroofing and landed stood up on one foot shattering the bones and snapping the tendons and ligaments and was hospitalised for a week and has been on crutches ever since and is unable to do anything for himself. Because he was self employed he doesn't qualify for sickness benefit and we have no income at present,not since last November, we go to a food bank once a fortnight and we are given a box of random food, usually past it's sell by date, we're not complaining! but we get nothing for our animals, we have 13 rescued house cats, two rabbits 5 guinea pigs and 7 chickens. So far our friends have been coming over with some tinned food or veggies from their gardens which has kept us going and one friend ordered us some food for the animals on line and had it delivered without telling us
All of our friends have been fantastic in what has been the most trying time of our lives. But we can't expect them to keep doing it as most of them just have their state pensions. We don't know what our futures will be, we don't even know if my husband will be able to walk properly again and he was also forced to liquidate his business in January as the insurers for his building business refused to stop taking the money ( 900 Euros every 12 weeks) even though my husband can't possibly work. George's vet bills are building up but our vet has said we can pay them when we get an income. so now that we have cancelled the Royal canin food, we have the insulin, hypodermic needles and the weekly blood tests. People have suggested that we buy a kit and do the tests at home, which is a great idea of course but without an income, impossible at the moment.
I'm sorry I seem to have rambled on a bit, I was only going to introduce ourselves.
This is our story, you probably hear ones just like it every day! lol
My husband and I have hit hard times ( an understatement actually) My husband was a builder and unfortunately last November he slipped in the wet, off of a roof he was reroofing and landed stood up on one foot shattering the bones and snapping the tendons and ligaments and was hospitalised for a week and has been on crutches ever since and is unable to do anything for himself. Because he was self employed he doesn't qualify for sickness benefit and we have no income at present,not since last November, we go to a food bank once a fortnight and we are given a box of random food, usually past it's sell by date, we're not complaining! but we get nothing for our animals, we have 13 rescued house cats, two rabbits 5 guinea pigs and 7 chickens. So far our friends have been coming over with some tinned food or veggies from their gardens which has kept us going and one friend ordered us some food for the animals on line and had it delivered without telling us
All of our friends have been fantastic in what has been the most trying time of our lives. But we can't expect them to keep doing it as most of them just have their state pensions. We don't know what our futures will be, we don't even know if my husband will be able to walk properly again and he was also forced to liquidate his business in January as the insurers for his building business refused to stop taking the money ( 900 Euros every 12 weeks) even though my husband can't possibly work. George's vet bills are building up but our vet has said we can pay them when we get an income. so now that we have cancelled the Royal canin food, we have the insulin, hypodermic needles and the weekly blood tests. People have suggested that we buy a kit and do the tests at home, which is a great idea of course but without an income, impossible at the moment. I'm sorry I seem to have rambled on a bit, I was only going to introduce ourselves.
This is our story, you probably hear ones just like it every day! lol
in my defense I hadn't had my coffee and was a little bit muddled, got my mmol and mg/dl all ar** about t** we use mg/dl here not mmol.
