Rex_Rescue_Momma
Member Since 2014
Please, those with experience, I am in tears and don't know what to do next. I love my cat so much, the heartache is devastating me. I just got off the phone with my vet. Things are not stabilizing with Dax. Last night before food/insulin his BG was well over 700. They gave him 2 units of insulin and fed him, went down to the 600s, they checked first thing this morning and it was 189. They fed him and gave him his insulin, and will update me. Bloodwork doesn't indicate anything else, kidney values are good, pancreatic enzymes are good, no signs of infections anywhere, only value that's crazy is his glucose.
I have tried and tried to find a group willing to help me financially and failed. I don't even know how I am going to pay all my utilities and other bills this month, my vet wants to run some more detailed testing to rule out things that won't show up on basic bloodwork, but I just don't have the money to run a lot of tests that may or may not give us any more answers. He said really there's no real reason for him to stay at the hospital since they can't do much more then keep checking his blood sugar and feeding him, which I could do at home. But if he crashes, especially at night, it is very hard for me to get him to a vet fast. And with his numbers still going so crazy, I'm very concerned I don't have the time or ability to monitor him closely enough. I don't drive, I'm paralyzed. The 2 vets close to my apartment close at 6 and aren't cheap. My roommate won't even check his blood sugar for me. I'm not going to be home much this week with several medical appointments scheduled myself. A couple of them would be when his insulin is due, my roommate is not going to give him his insulin, there is no way. I am so stressed and heart broken, I just feel like I have failed Dax, and don't know if I should keep going, or if I should just end his suffering.
I have tried and tried to find a group willing to help me financially and failed. I don't even know how I am going to pay all my utilities and other bills this month, my vet wants to run some more detailed testing to rule out things that won't show up on basic bloodwork, but I just don't have the money to run a lot of tests that may or may not give us any more answers. He said really there's no real reason for him to stay at the hospital since they can't do much more then keep checking his blood sugar and feeding him, which I could do at home. But if he crashes, especially at night, it is very hard for me to get him to a vet fast. And with his numbers still going so crazy, I'm very concerned I don't have the time or ability to monitor him closely enough. I don't drive, I'm paralyzed. The 2 vets close to my apartment close at 6 and aren't cheap. My roommate won't even check his blood sugar for me. I'm not going to be home much this week with several medical appointments scheduled myself. A couple of them would be when his insulin is due, my roommate is not going to give him his insulin, there is no way. I am so stressed and heart broken, I just feel like I have failed Dax, and don't know if I should keep going, or if I should just end his suffering.
