My Kinker was diagnosed @ 10 yrs old and lived another 4 with insulin shots. Prayers and only good wishes to both you and Tessie {{{hugs}}}
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Need more prayers for Tessie
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Posted 3 years ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
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So glad to hear it is something treatable, Sandi. Yay for Tessie!
Posted 3 years ago by paulajeanne #
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Good news for Tessie! Yea!!!! {{Tessie}}
Posted 3 years ago by SammyandOliversmama #
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Tessie seems to have more than her fair share of serious health problems. I dropped her off at the vet this morning for more tests. I'm taking Sophie and Smitty in for well check this afternoon so hopefully will know something by then. After reading through Bellantra's thread I have to say I have great vets. Several years ago my Spooky got really sick she was 13 and was running a high fever. There was nothing that was obviously wrong. I was in tears because I couldn't afford a lot of medical care. My vet took her and promised to keep the costs down and told me I could pay in installments. I know she ran tests and did stuff for me that she never charged me for. Spooky recovered and I had another 5 years with her. Years later my vet told me that at the time she did not think that Spooky would recover from that illness. I think back at how hard she fought for her and money really wasn't an issue
Posted 3 years ago by Cat talk rules #
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I do have a wonderful vet and the owner told me today if I needed to make payments on Tessie (and the two I had scheduled for well checks today) I could. I didn't need to do that but I appreciated the offer. Insulin was ninety dollars and I took that money out of my christmas fund. Anybody got any good ideas for homemade christmas gifts that don't take lots and lots of time or money?
Posted 3 years ago by Cat talk rules #
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I will give Tessie her first insulin shot from me in about ten minutes. Wish me luck this whole thing is a little scarey for me--the vet shaved some patches on her skin so that I can get used to doing it without dealing with hair to start with. Tessie was not pleased. LOL I take her in for a blood test tomorrow after work--there was a chance if her urine showed ketosis (I think it was) that she would have had to been hospitalized more than today. I'm glad and thankful that it wasn't.
Posted 3 years ago by Cat talk rules #
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Good luck, CTR, I was scared as anything first few times I did it, I was convinced I was going to do it wrong. But I don't even think about it now and neither does Jasper, I try to do it while he's eating and the little piggie doesn't even notice!
But yes, the cost of insulin is a bummer!
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Ok I did it and the syringes I got are slightly different than the one they showed me how to at the vet office and my hands are shaking right now but I did it. When I first started giving her the steroids she has to take she really fought me but now accepts them although she does not like it. What other problems does Jasper have?
Posted 3 years ago by Cat talk rules #
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At the pharmacy I had to sign a statement in regards to her privacy rights. I said do you want me to sign my name or hers. I really don't think she cares about privacy rights cracked me up
Posted 3 years ago by Cat talk rules #
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Well, he has a low immune system from all the fighting he did in his years as the neighbourhood tom. His teeth were rotten (but you can never get anywhere near his mouth to check) so one night, when he came in with one tooth at a right angle to his mouth, I was petrified. Rang the emergency vet but she said she wouldn't be doing anything to him till the morning anyway so to come in then, which I did. So that tooth came out. That caused a problem with his bite and his mouth became raw so in the end everything else came out too. My vet warned me that because he had had bad teeth for so long, untreated, that his kidneys were probably not the best and might well give out. And one day he came home with his eye all ripped up, from a fight (even though he was long since neutered by then), another cat had ripped through his cornea so that eye had to come out. He's a one-eyed, toothless, podgy, diabetic trainwreck!
But, you know, when he turned up on my doorstep one day, he was so ravenous I had to feed him. And I was fostering kittens at the time and he was so sweet with them, let them climb all over him, even though I was keeping a very wary eye out because toms can be dangerous to kittens. And since his neutering he's a total love bug. So once we got the house training under control (he thought soft things were for peeing on), I kinda had to keep him...
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Mine doesn't seem to keep the insulin on hand but called in a prescription; Tessie has irratable bowel syndrome also. She is a really happy cat even though she is a sick one, I would have had to keep Jasper, too if he'd shown up on doorstep. What a sweetie. Don't worry about the long post I did ask
Posted 3 years ago by Cat talk rules #
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Actually I said it wrong its imflamitory bowel syndrome and it is hard. She vomited a lot, not normal hairball stuff but really like she was trying to bring up her toenails. It was miserable
Posted 3 years ago by Cat talk rules #
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Yes, and it took her a long time to stabilize. I couldn't afford to get ultrasounds and or biopsy so she was diagnosed by process of elimination. I was worried for quite a while that it was cancer
Posted 3 years ago by Cat talk rules #
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LOL at Tessie and her privacy rights! Poor baby, extra scritches from me, Sandi, and hugs for her worried mama.
Posted 3 years ago by paulajeanne #
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