I was gonna write sumpin' tonight about inspirational people but, I got home from my diving trip and my 15 year old diabetic cat, Doofus was in one of the closets. As he usually punishes me for a few minutes for leaving him this was normal behavior. After moving to another closet and ignoring me, I began to think sumpin' was wrong. I got him out of the closet and petted him for a while, but he just didn't feel right. Upon setting him down, I noticed he couldn't use his rear legs. Thinking he might have had a stroke, I called my friend Cindy and she came over and took us to the emergency vet. On the way to the vet, he had a real bad seizure. We found out his glucose was real low and they gave him an IV. They're keeping him for the night.
I've learned a lot more about diabetes than I ever wanted to know. Doofus is on a special diet which is also fine for my other cat, Ashley, since she's a little porker. I have a house sitter who is a medical assistant and she was giving Doofus his insulin shots twice a day just as I instructed her to. What I think happened is he didn't eat as much because I was gone and the insulin lowered his blood sugar too much. I can usually tell when to lower the dose but the house sitter, not knowing Doofus as well as I, didn't realize what was happening.
So, I'm really bummed out tonight. I'm sorry. I'm behind on comments and e-mail. I'll try to catch up this week.
I'll write about my trip and inspirational people, plus a mini-rant on drivers on the interstates tomorrow.
Posted by denny at March 30, 2003 10:23 PM