Gatsby Update

The past two weeks have been an awful roller coaster with the kitty. Here are the highlights:

May 6 - Take Gatsby in for surgery. Get a call later that day that they can't operate because her pre-op blood work shows an extremely high blood glucose level. Seems she's diabetic. I freak and cry a lot.

May 12 - Go back to the vet for a consult about this whole diabetes thing and find out what kind of prognosis we are looking at. Sounds like things are not as hopeless as I feared, and she'll probably do ok on 2x daily insulin pills. In the interim since we were last at the vet, she hasn't been eating much, so the vet sends us home with medication to stimulate her appetite. Need to get that back to normal before we can start on the insulin.

May 13/14 - Gatsby is very upset and agitated, and seems to be in pain to me. So, we make a late-night visit to the pet emergency clinic in the wee small hours of Wednesday night/Thursday morning. The vet on-duty does a bunch of tests and thinks she has a cancerous mass in her abdomen. More freaking and crying ensues.

May 14 - Follow-up with the regular vet the following day. She tells me not to freak out, she sees no evidence of a mass and thinks the ER vet was looking at part of her kidney. Says the agitation was likely a result of the appetite stimulant. We'll try taking her off it and see how she does. The vet also extracts an infected tooth, which may be the source of the eating issues.

Today - Kitty still isn't eating normally; I'm going to put her back on the medication and hope it works. We have another vet appointment in a few days.

Lots of frustrating ups and downs, and all of it pretty emotionally and mentally exhausting. Here's hoping things even out soon, because I'm not sure how much more of this I can handle.