Terri Drennen
Member Since 2016
Hi all,
My name is Terri, proud owner of Peyton Manning Drennen, who is the younger brother of the orange marble Eli Manning Drennen, older brother of Couper Manning Drennen, and now our new family member, a rescue aka crazy youngster aka Angus Drennen.
Peyton has had alot of medical issues throughout his life, and all those times he spent on my lap as I became his nurse. He deserves nothing less.
2 years ago, he started to develop "bumps" all over his neck, chest, flank, etc. He had 3 surgeries to remove them, and more came. It showed up in the microscope as mast cell tumor cancer. Chemo would be the next step. This fearless spoiled boy endured over a year of chemo, and he and I spent many nights of no sleep. While he was going through this, I took the necessary time to learn all about the feline nutrition and how lucky we all are now that so many companies offer such incredible nutritive items, oils, etc. Our vets and oncologists said what a great job we did getting him through that chemo! I am happy to say that I now have in my possession his CANCER FREE letter from our beloved vet.
Then one day I woke up early as I felt something strange. He was not on my lap. I found him laying sideways out on our cooled wooden floor. I instantly knew something was not right. He tried to get up, and his back end would not work with him. I tried to help lift him to get a drink of water, a bite of his diet food, and I knew and FELT his pain. Of course I called his doctor and we went right away to see her. We thought at first it was a fall type incident as he still thinks he can jump far distances, but due to the side effects of the chemo, he gained an enormous amount of weight, and I help him up anywhere he needs to go. I immediately blamed myself; thinking during the middle of the night he tried to get down/back up and I slept and did not catch him. He was fine when we went to sleep; the next morning he was injured.
His vet put him on Onsior, which helped, as well as mixing some torbugesic with the Lixotinic liquid pet vitamin to cut the taste and I give my boys vitamins as part of their daily regimen anyway. He still seemed to get worse.
Dr. did a full panel of bloodwork, and it has come back with very high sugar levels. As of this writing, we are having the long term blood panel done, I cannot remember the name of it, however it shows his levels/blood quality for the past three weeks. In any case, it does indeed look like diabetes, which I had been told could happen as a result of the cancer treatment.
I have given shots, IV's etc. to my cats who are now at the Rainbow Bridge in the past with no problem. I am going to do the same for my Peyton. My biggest worry is that in March of this year, I had my 54th (not a typo) surgery, and was overdosed with heparin, and spent over two months in the hospital due to internal bleeding, which I still have going on right now. What will I do when I have to go back in eventually? I am so sick, but I put my boys first. My KITS, not kids, but IMHO, even better, my kits. I love them, need them, and they are the reason for my not giving up while so sick in the hospital. Just the thought of never seeing them again made ME fight even harder to get well enough to come home. Everything happens for a reason, and I was able to come home to be here for my precious Peyton. So, we are both fighters against multiple medical issues, and we will continue to be. The love in this little house my husband and I, and our four orange/orange and white brothers share is thick as can be. My husband was never around cats before he met me almost twenty years ago. He loves them almost as much as I; for there can be no one that loves them as much as I do.
Any suggestions, comments, etc. would be so appreciated. Peyton has a facebook acct. that is far behind since I have been so sick: PEYTONATION. If you would like to give this fighter a "like" he will be updating the page very soon!
Thank you all, with love,
Terri & Peyton D.
My name is Terri, proud owner of Peyton Manning Drennen, who is the younger brother of the orange marble Eli Manning Drennen, older brother of Couper Manning Drennen, and now our new family member, a rescue aka crazy youngster aka Angus Drennen.
Peyton has had alot of medical issues throughout his life, and all those times he spent on my lap as I became his nurse. He deserves nothing less.
2 years ago, he started to develop "bumps" all over his neck, chest, flank, etc. He had 3 surgeries to remove them, and more came. It showed up in the microscope as mast cell tumor cancer. Chemo would be the next step. This fearless spoiled boy endured over a year of chemo, and he and I spent many nights of no sleep. While he was going through this, I took the necessary time to learn all about the feline nutrition and how lucky we all are now that so many companies offer such incredible nutritive items, oils, etc. Our vets and oncologists said what a great job we did getting him through that chemo! I am happy to say that I now have in my possession his CANCER FREE letter from our beloved vet.
Then one day I woke up early as I felt something strange. He was not on my lap. I found him laying sideways out on our cooled wooden floor. I instantly knew something was not right. He tried to get up, and his back end would not work with him. I tried to help lift him to get a drink of water, a bite of his diet food, and I knew and FELT his pain. Of course I called his doctor and we went right away to see her. We thought at first it was a fall type incident as he still thinks he can jump far distances, but due to the side effects of the chemo, he gained an enormous amount of weight, and I help him up anywhere he needs to go. I immediately blamed myself; thinking during the middle of the night he tried to get down/back up and I slept and did not catch him. He was fine when we went to sleep; the next morning he was injured.
His vet put him on Onsior, which helped, as well as mixing some torbugesic with the Lixotinic liquid pet vitamin to cut the taste and I give my boys vitamins as part of their daily regimen anyway. He still seemed to get worse.
Dr. did a full panel of bloodwork, and it has come back with very high sugar levels. As of this writing, we are having the long term blood panel done, I cannot remember the name of it, however it shows his levels/blood quality for the past three weeks. In any case, it does indeed look like diabetes, which I had been told could happen as a result of the cancer treatment.
I have given shots, IV's etc. to my cats who are now at the Rainbow Bridge in the past with no problem. I am going to do the same for my Peyton. My biggest worry is that in March of this year, I had my 54th (not a typo) surgery, and was overdosed with heparin, and spent over two months in the hospital due to internal bleeding, which I still have going on right now. What will I do when I have to go back in eventually? I am so sick, but I put my boys first. My KITS, not kids, but IMHO, even better, my kits. I love them, need them, and they are the reason for my not giving up while so sick in the hospital. Just the thought of never seeing them again made ME fight even harder to get well enough to come home. Everything happens for a reason, and I was able to come home to be here for my precious Peyton. So, we are both fighters against multiple medical issues, and we will continue to be. The love in this little house my husband and I, and our four orange/orange and white brothers share is thick as can be. My husband was never around cats before he met me almost twenty years ago. He loves them almost as much as I; for there can be no one that loves them as much as I do.
Any suggestions, comments, etc. would be so appreciated. Peyton has a facebook acct. that is far behind since I have been so sick: PEYTONATION. If you would like to give this fighter a "like" he will be updating the page very soon!
Thank you all, with love,
Terri & Peyton D.
He and his brothers come first.