skinky44
Member Since 2014
aw thanks everyone. some good info and great support from all of you. I put an order in for the akray, will take a few days. Nancy and Scotty: yeah, today she is clogged up in that nose. poor thing. it's random/cyclical, it'll be clear for a while and then not. she HATES the baby booger thing, i sometimes get afraid of her reaction when I squeeze, i think it goes right into her brain, so i take it easy with that, but think i need to use it every now and then. If I was her, I'd gather all my strength and claw me to death in my sleep. syringe, needles, pills, booger ball. when i bring up the occasional possible URI/cloggyness etc., the vets all just nod their head and say, understandable, it's the tumor or whatever in her nose. i can't wait till fri, i'll give her the convenia and she'll get a little better, but she is NOT fighting this infection (her lymphocites and neturcils were way out of wack). If I could regulate the insulin i am sure it would help her fight the infection but it so often comes down to WHAT IS THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF FOOD I can have in her before a shot? we go into this cycle and if i try to jam three syringes of food into her and then keep stabbing at her ear only to get the E13 errors - well this is when she does want to die. Plus i don't know that i can do every twelve hours with my random doctor appts and with how long it can take to get food into her and get a proper blood count. but yes, as someone pointed out, i'm thinking if i can maybe even get the drop of insulin into her twice a day, maybe one unit at one point and then .25 at another point? i know it's not "protocol" and board protocol might involve asking a vet, but for all the vets, and myself included, the more important thing is getting the food into her and if the steroid helps with inflammation, that would be the second focus thing. it's not that i want to neglect the insulin/diabetic component, it's just that if i try to be consistent with it, it doesn't work for either of us...and it's not from lack of trying on my part. truly the worst thing is when i'm in commando mode and i'm really trying to do all of this and i see this look in her eye and she wants out. so trying to find the balance is tricky. but maybe getting a monitor which needs less blood and is therefore less stressful for her is a step in the right direction.
got a surprising call from the vet mobile owner today just checking up on skinky. he was surprised that she is still alive and that i haven't PTS sleep yet. we were discussing some things. he said the sedation and aspiration really would be a waste because it would be 50/50 or less that we actually sample the cells that we needed to sample. the thing to do is a sedation/biopsy, but I don't know how they could reach the tissue in her nose. previously the vet had suggested cutting her eye out. this guy said maybe with tweezers up the nostril or through the mouth but i don't think that will work....so in some ways I think I can understand why the CT scan. it's still very frustrating because there's still no concrete diagnosis on her. also the sedation/biopsy wouldn't show if there's anything growing behind the eye. anyhow, i'm still on the "skinky strong" thing because i think the stronger she gets i'll have more chance of a vet willing to take more of a chance on her and do maybe an xray. not sure how we can get a tissue sample w/o going thru the eye.
This vet mobile owner was encouraging me to regulate her insulin as well. oh gosh, such mixed messages. i told him how it's best if i can just syringe small amounts of food into her throughout the day, he said that's fine for the administering insulin, that it doesn't have to be half can all at once before insulin. i don't know what to do. Manhattan cat vet, the one i really like, warns me that i'm better to give no insulin out of fear of risking hypoglycemia, although i believe she felt i'd be very safe w/ .25 or .5 insulin once or twice a day...but i don't know how far that will go with regulating her, especially with lantus.
the lantus i have is old too, used from a local person who had to put their cat down, but expiration is 2016 and it's been refrigerated the whole time...
anyhow, i do think she is better today than last week. i know we are going to have continual ups and downs, but i'd say she is more on an up swing.
got a surprising call from the vet mobile owner today just checking up on skinky. he was surprised that she is still alive and that i haven't PTS sleep yet. we were discussing some things. he said the sedation and aspiration really would be a waste because it would be 50/50 or less that we actually sample the cells that we needed to sample. the thing to do is a sedation/biopsy, but I don't know how they could reach the tissue in her nose. previously the vet had suggested cutting her eye out. this guy said maybe with tweezers up the nostril or through the mouth but i don't think that will work....so in some ways I think I can understand why the CT scan. it's still very frustrating because there's still no concrete diagnosis on her. also the sedation/biopsy wouldn't show if there's anything growing behind the eye. anyhow, i'm still on the "skinky strong" thing because i think the stronger she gets i'll have more chance of a vet willing to take more of a chance on her and do maybe an xray. not sure how we can get a tissue sample w/o going thru the eye.
This vet mobile owner was encouraging me to regulate her insulin as well. oh gosh, such mixed messages. i told him how it's best if i can just syringe small amounts of food into her throughout the day, he said that's fine for the administering insulin, that it doesn't have to be half can all at once before insulin. i don't know what to do. Manhattan cat vet, the one i really like, warns me that i'm better to give no insulin out of fear of risking hypoglycemia, although i believe she felt i'd be very safe w/ .25 or .5 insulin once or twice a day...but i don't know how far that will go with regulating her, especially with lantus.
the lantus i have is old too, used from a local person who had to put their cat down, but expiration is 2016 and it's been refrigerated the whole time...
anyhow, i do think she is better today than last week. i know we are going to have continual ups and downs, but i'd say she is more on an up swing.
