EvehasaGremlin
Member Since 2017
Hello!
Maybe I shouldn't have named him Gremlin, but its kind of perfect. I had to feed him before midnight and then again in 6-8 hours. But he doesn't mind showers/baths and being walked on a leash! He also knows many words and will do tricks for a wheatgrass/catgrass treat!
My Gremlin just got newly diagnosed 9 days ago. I'm still in shock, he's been a healthy guy his whole life and I've tried so hard to deal with what I thought was 'just' a sensitive stomach and skin issue. (He does still have sensitivity issues, he's half albino with white/blue colored red reflecting eyes that he got from his Siamese mom. He really is creepy if you look at him when he's under the bed.) I had him on an intense, strict portion controlled food regimen every 6 hours because that seemed to not make his stomach upset, for two years. Unfortunately I had to leave my home early one morning several months ago and leave him behind. I think that the upset in his feeding schedule and the stress of me trying to get out of that terrible situation and figure out where he could safely stay made him very sick and the diabetes kicked in really hard. We've been reunitied less than two months and he was sick for most of the last month. My sister is a vet tech so that's one small, but amazing, thing going for us right now. I'm just trying to manage getting him on better, wet, low carb food and pay for everything. My savings is wiped. I'm very worried as I don't have the money to take him for a blood glucose curve test ($200 here for it) at the vets. I'm trying to research as much as possible about insulin and figure it out myself. I really don't want him going into hypoglycemic shock. Anyways, I'll be doing a lot of reading through posts as much as I can when I get access to internet, which I don't have at home.
Best wishes to everyone else going through this.
E & Gremlin
Maybe I shouldn't have named him Gremlin, but its kind of perfect. I had to feed him before midnight and then again in 6-8 hours. But he doesn't mind showers/baths and being walked on a leash! He also knows many words and will do tricks for a wheatgrass/catgrass treat!
My Gremlin just got newly diagnosed 9 days ago. I'm still in shock, he's been a healthy guy his whole life and I've tried so hard to deal with what I thought was 'just' a sensitive stomach and skin issue. (He does still have sensitivity issues, he's half albino with white/blue colored red reflecting eyes that he got from his Siamese mom. He really is creepy if you look at him when he's under the bed.) I had him on an intense, strict portion controlled food regimen every 6 hours because that seemed to not make his stomach upset, for two years. Unfortunately I had to leave my home early one morning several months ago and leave him behind. I think that the upset in his feeding schedule and the stress of me trying to get out of that terrible situation and figure out where he could safely stay made him very sick and the diabetes kicked in really hard. We've been reunitied less than two months and he was sick for most of the last month. My sister is a vet tech so that's one small, but amazing, thing going for us right now. I'm just trying to manage getting him on better, wet, low carb food and pay for everything. My savings is wiped. I'm very worried as I don't have the money to take him for a blood glucose curve test ($200 here for it) at the vets. I'm trying to research as much as possible about insulin and figure it out myself. I really don't want him going into hypoglycemic shock. Anyways, I'll be doing a lot of reading through posts as much as I can when I get access to internet, which I don't have at home.
Best wishes to everyone else going through this.
E & Gremlin
