This has been a seriously rough weekend here at The Old Chapel. Jiji, the cat that my husband had when I first met him, became quite ill on Thursday night. She stopped eating and was quite lethargic so I stayed up all night with her trying to get her to eat and drink every half hour or so. On Friday I took her into the vet where they put saline under her skin and gave me some more to take home to keep her hydrated while we awaited the results of the blood tests that they took while we were there. That evening Tech Support stayed up with her, both of us thinking it was a death vigil as her condition had worsened despite the massive amounts of fluids injected into her. On Saturday we got the results from the vet and they were really surprising to us. Jiji seems to be diabetic, which accounted for all of the symptoms, even ones which we didn’t perceive as such like the fact that she had lost a lot of weight over the past year. We had to take her straight to the local ER vet (I am NEVER bitching about how far the ER vet in Casselberry was every again!) where they put her on a drip IV and started trying to get her blood sugar back down into a safer range. She spent Saturday night there and we were able to pick her up again Sunday afternoon and bring her home.
She’s getting better slowly. We know that she has more energy as she’s been bitching about the diet food that they put her on and rambling about the house some more. This disease means that she will get twice daily shots just under her skin for the rest of her life, which she is dealing with admirably.
I’m just happy that this isn’t being written with tears streaming down my face…
Sarah Jane Humke 