Hi everyone that has responded to my desperate search for information. I appreciate all your advise and information, which is still going over my head, but I'm gradually taking it in. But I have to say that I need to leave the forum for the time being so I can get my head around all this. The reasons being...first of all, our Princess had a crash on Saturday and we nearly lost her. Being a new (diabetic) and I've put that in brackets for a reason, you'll see that soon...but I can't explain the terror going through the traffic in the mad dash getting her to the vet in time. My daughter, whom is Princesses mum (I'm her grandma) was holding a floppy kitty all the way to the vet while I went into a panic attack watching Princess more than the road. In the hour prior to this crash I said to Amanda that Princess looked to be struggling, as her back legs were a bit wonky. I was heading out to meet a friend for a coffee and told Amanda to call me if she deteriorated. I got the call half an hour later that she was floppy and basically has no control and went down, even a poo popped out. She said that kitty looked drunk. I called the vet and explained the situation. They booked her in but said I could take her to the emergency vet or bring her there. I said I'd take her there as they know her. So I had time to get home and take her there...it's a half hour drive. When Princess was put into the carrier, she just flopped face down. Amanda got her out to keep her alert. At one point I though she was having a seizure as she flipped over. I pulled over the car to call the vet and asked where the emergency vet was. It was closer so that's where we headed so they called to let them know we were coming. We got there in time and Amanda virtually threw Princess at the vet.
Now, the bit about diabetes in brackets...There's doubts about her diabetes diagnoses which conflicts with her IBD diagnoses...and those two combined with her kidney necrosis issues, we're at a loss. We were outside for almost 2 hours in tears not knowing what was going on inside. People coming and going with their pets...one family crying leaving with just their dogs collar
When Amanda went to the door to see if we could wait inside, the receptionist had forgotten we were out there
she was focussed on estimates of cost. When I asked what they're doing Princess, she said they're trying to save her, and that she's not the vet and doesn't know. So Princess had to have two lots of glucose through a drip before we could even see her...and even then we were waiting another hour after getting inside. The information that we've been given has gone right over our heads. I've asked for it to be written down and emailed to me so we can get out head around it ( I'm still waiting on that info) So basically, she may or may not be diabetic... She may or may not have IBD... She may or may not have stomach cancer... She may or may not have to see a specialist in Melbourne to help diagnose these things. The insulin she's been getting morning and night may or may not have caused her to crash today, it's all unknown. But for now she had to stay 2 nights, they're going to test her with foods and antinausea meds (told them no Cerenia, that makes her really sick), and insulin to see her reactions to it all. We got to see her for about 3 minutes before we left Saturday, she was still out of it just laying there looking at us blankly...we haven't seen her since. I called them twice Sunday to find out how she's going, stupid woman on the phone didn't know she was there or what she was there for. But then found out she's now stable. She ate yesterday without throwing up, but she's still getting fluids via drip. We can pick her up sometime today and take her to our regular vet, as she has to continue on the fluids. From there on who knows, could be a trip to Melbourne to get a more definite diagnosis with exploritory surgery of her bowel for the IBS and to find out why she's so sick. They mentioned so many different foods for this and that and it's all compounded on top of everything else she eats etc, it's too much to understand. She's not out of the woods yet, but at least we know she survived Friday night. What happened to Princess is probably what I was shown on here about hypos etc, that I saved on my pc to read later, so I had no idea what we were experiencing being new to this. So not knowing what is going on, I have to bow out for now. Sorry for the quick exit, but we need to know more from the vets before we do anything else as suggested on here. Thank you all I really appreciate your help.
I hope Princess comes out of this OK. Good instincts getting her to vet as soon as you could. You probably saved her life.