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Sassy Fat Cat became rather abruptly not so Fat. I thought she was slimming down lately, but I thought it was because of Tyson Hyper Dog. Certainly an aggravation of her reaction sores on her face were likely caused by him as where possibly some of the fighting wounds on her neck. So I had taken her in last week for a steroid shot and reassurance that it was just the allergies and stress that caused the flare. This week, she went in for confirmation of the above and that she was all better. She dropped a pound in that week interval. Not Good. The red flags went off. I agreed to blood work. Within an hour, it was confirmed that she had diabetes. Her blood glucose was 441, and if she were a human, they'd be on the edge of forcibly admitting her. 500+ usually means mandantory emergency room admission.

In human diabetics, this far off normal can take years of delicately balancing the medical records, medication, and monitoring food intake. The goal is to get where she can just take a simple medication instead of insulin. But right now, she's going to have insulin injections twice a day, and possibly for the rest of her life. Plus regular blood work checks and vet visits- like for the first 3 months, I might be seeing the vet every other week with her. But the alternative is unthinkable. She is otherwise a very healthy cat, albeit much skinnier than she was at 12.1 pounds. I'll weigh her next week and see how she does. Current dose is 2.5 units b.i.d.

She's very good at receiving a shot, thankfully. However, she's very lethargic by nature. The hard part will be to watch for hypoglycemic comas in a normal rather comatose cat.  ¶ 3:18 PM