Zombierela
Member Since 2013
My Mitzy is about 9 years old, I found her as a stray 6 years ago. She unfortunately has Asthma and Diabetes. We managed her diabeties with prescription food and Glipizide for about a year now. Since Tuesday (today is monday) She has been experiencing Ketoacidosis and diabetic neuropathy, she has not been eating on her own and my vet is now worried about pancreatitis. I am supposed to go in in the morning and get proper syringes and pain killers for her. We are still using the gliptizide for her BG levels, not insulin shots. I do not have any tools to test her myself over tonight.
I have educated myself extremely on all of this, and I am feeding her babyfood and chicken broth through small syringes. She is not vomiting, but I am begining to worry because she looks like she is about to pass away right now. not only can she barely walk due to the neuropathy, her eyes became very dialated and glazed and she has her mouth hanging open slightly, it is noticable because she never does that. She does not smell like acetone, and aside from a treated kidney infection her bloodwork has been and has stayed perfectly fine.
I picked her up today from the vet today after her being there since wednesday. we thought getting her out of the kennel would be good for her, but she already looks like she has declined since this afternoon.
I am very worried on what to do right now. My vet has an emergency 24 hr service, where I can bring her in and drop her off, I am uneasy with her being in the kennels and alone, but she looks as miserable here as she does there and I worry she will lose her vision since her pupils have become very dialated seemingly quickly. I fed her 12 ml of beef baby food and chicken broth mixed, and then again at 8 with 9 ml of the same with her gliptizide mixed into it, the same dosage plan we have had for a year is what I was told to do.
My vet told me to jugt get her eating. Unfortunately there was an accident and she was rushed into a surgery when I went to pick Mitzy up so I did not get the oppurtunity to speak with her about this until I was home, where she did not seem to be declining, though this came fast and is getting worse.
What should I do? I feel like when i feed her she gets worse.
Should I bring her into the emergency vet?
This is terrible, this cat has been my world and this is my worst fear.
I have educated myself extremely on all of this, and I am feeding her babyfood and chicken broth through small syringes. She is not vomiting, but I am begining to worry because she looks like she is about to pass away right now. not only can she barely walk due to the neuropathy, her eyes became very dialated and glazed and she has her mouth hanging open slightly, it is noticable because she never does that. She does not smell like acetone, and aside from a treated kidney infection her bloodwork has been and has stayed perfectly fine.
I picked her up today from the vet today after her being there since wednesday. we thought getting her out of the kennel would be good for her, but she already looks like she has declined since this afternoon.
I am very worried on what to do right now. My vet has an emergency 24 hr service, where I can bring her in and drop her off, I am uneasy with her being in the kennels and alone, but she looks as miserable here as she does there and I worry she will lose her vision since her pupils have become very dialated seemingly quickly. I fed her 12 ml of beef baby food and chicken broth mixed, and then again at 8 with 9 ml of the same with her gliptizide mixed into it, the same dosage plan we have had for a year is what I was told to do.
My vet told me to jugt get her eating. Unfortunately there was an accident and she was rushed into a surgery when I went to pick Mitzy up so I did not get the oppurtunity to speak with her about this until I was home, where she did not seem to be declining, though this came fast and is getting worse.
What should I do? I feel like when i feed her she gets worse.
Should I bring her into the emergency vet?
This is terrible, this cat has been my world and this is my worst fear.
