gabeandren
Member Since 2012
Hi Everyone-
I'm so happy that I have this message board to come too. My cat Renaldo was recently diagnosed with diabetes. As most of you know, when you first hear the words you start to think about how you're "going to do this". Of course, I will do all that's needed to get him the best care and to do what needs to be done to get him back on track. Giving him his injections (ProZinc 2x a day/1 unit each time) was daunting at first but like everything, it becomes second nature. Home testing freaked me out at first, but my Mother always told me "you do what you need to do"....so I did and have been for the last past 3 weeks since the diagnosis. The insulin was working beautifully and we were settling into a routine which was at best solid. Renaldo is such a good cat (until he "smells" the Vet's office which turns him into a Cougar!) My biggest problem has been his switch from dry food to wet. My 10 year old boy has been eating dry food for his entire life. He loves the wet food..but it doesn't like him.
I believe that I rushed him into it...giving him the food all at once verses introducing it slowly. The result, he vomit once and had diaherria (which freaked him out because she never had soft stool.) Under the Vet's guidance, he told me to feed him chicken and a some rice for 5 days to bind him and to get his stomach back on track. Well, of course he wouldn't eat it. When I put some sweet potato in the mix, he looked at me like "What the hell is that?" To get him to eat and bind him so I can give him his insulin, I took 2-3 pieces of chicken from his new food (Purina DM) mixed it with the chicken I poached and rice (about 1/4 cup) and fed him. Worked like magic. I was able to give him his shots for two days. This morning, I heard him in his litter box. The result was a hard stool followed by an extremely soft stool (sorry for being so descriptive) followed by a bit of liquid stool. Needless to say, Ren jumped out of the box....walked a few feet very low to the ground, and vomit. I have to say, my heart broke for him and I'm at my wits end. I take Ren's condition very seriously and want to give him the best. Maybe I shouldn't have given him the 2-3 pieces of the DM chicken, but I needed him to eat. I have to admit, this has really hit me hard. This is all I think about. Sometimes I'm afraid to leave him alone fearing that something is going to happen to him. So any little hiccup in the process truly upsets me which I know upsets him. I'm being so hard on myself and although I focus on all of the positive, my mind wonders to all of the things that could happen to him. My Vet is great but I guess no one really knows what it's like until you actually take on the responsibility and "live" it. That said...any words of wisdom...any advice would be so welcomed.
Thanks so much!
I'm so happy that I have this message board to come too. My cat Renaldo was recently diagnosed with diabetes. As most of you know, when you first hear the words you start to think about how you're "going to do this". Of course, I will do all that's needed to get him the best care and to do what needs to be done to get him back on track. Giving him his injections (ProZinc 2x a day/1 unit each time) was daunting at first but like everything, it becomes second nature. Home testing freaked me out at first, but my Mother always told me "you do what you need to do"....so I did and have been for the last past 3 weeks since the diagnosis. The insulin was working beautifully and we were settling into a routine which was at best solid. Renaldo is such a good cat (until he "smells" the Vet's office which turns him into a Cougar!) My biggest problem has been his switch from dry food to wet. My 10 year old boy has been eating dry food for his entire life. He loves the wet food..but it doesn't like him.
I believe that I rushed him into it...giving him the food all at once verses introducing it slowly. The result, he vomit once and had diaherria (which freaked him out because she never had soft stool.) Under the Vet's guidance, he told me to feed him chicken and a some rice for 5 days to bind him and to get his stomach back on track. Well, of course he wouldn't eat it. When I put some sweet potato in the mix, he looked at me like "What the hell is that?" To get him to eat and bind him so I can give him his insulin, I took 2-3 pieces of chicken from his new food (Purina DM) mixed it with the chicken I poached and rice (about 1/4 cup) and fed him. Worked like magic. I was able to give him his shots for two days. This morning, I heard him in his litter box. The result was a hard stool followed by an extremely soft stool (sorry for being so descriptive) followed by a bit of liquid stool. Needless to say, Ren jumped out of the box....walked a few feet very low to the ground, and vomit. I have to say, my heart broke for him and I'm at my wits end. I take Ren's condition very seriously and want to give him the best. Maybe I shouldn't have given him the 2-3 pieces of the DM chicken, but I needed him to eat. I have to admit, this has really hit me hard. This is all I think about. Sometimes I'm afraid to leave him alone fearing that something is going to happen to him. So any little hiccup in the process truly upsets me which I know upsets him. I'm being so hard on myself and although I focus on all of the positive, my mind wonders to all of the things that could happen to him. My Vet is great but I guess no one really knows what it's like until you actually take on the responsibility and "live" it. That said...any words of wisdom...any advice would be so welcomed.
Thanks so much!
, beef :shock: , and eggs.