[addisonnicogel]

Just to write something of my back what I find very unpleasant..

My cat has diabetics. He's about 14 years old.

It all started with him doing things he done not before. Weird eyes, alot of dried up stuff in the corner of the eyes, not having the mood for anything, no attention seeking, drinking loads of water, not the fresh water container next to his food but he preferd to drink huge amounts of the small pond behind my house. He also had several attacks. The vet he've seen told us he has diabetics and was given insuline.

It's very difficult to measure his blood-sugar, as the attacks he gets are usually at night. The time to measure his blood-sugar is best at the time of occurance. He has very big eyes, his tail is straight and not sweeping while he is walking around the livingroom in circles, sniffing at everything.. He looks like he is on a new planet and it's overwhelming him. Than when the attack is over between 15 minutes and 3 hours, he's exhausted and lays on his side on the floor nothing but breathing hard, gaining his rest and energy back.. His tail sweeps and he listens to his name..finally again.


Now for about 2 years he is been giving insuline twice a day. Before breakfast and early evening again. Best way to give him the shots are when he's starting to eat, you grab it's skin in the neck with your thumb and index finger and pull it out a little than you place the siringe in the neck between thumb and index finger.

The attacks stopped alot since giving him the apropiate dosage of insuline, but last month or two he's been really different than before. He doesn't go upstairs anymore, doesn't sleep on the comfy beds, no more places he loved to be on. All he does now is being on strange places. He wants to sleep on the carpet in the livnigroom behind a large chair, he wants to sleep in a closet.. he don't do anything much at all anymore and when I see his eyes I think life is flowing out. He eats only when he really needs to, also the best foods he doesn't seem very much interrested in. He eats when I sit next to him. Just sitting there.. then when he decides to eat he goes for it. When I walk away, he quits too.. when I keep sitting next to him.. he raises his head looks at me and continues to eat.

It's difficult to see him like that. I will have to take him to the vet again to have an update, but I also want to avoid him being a vet patient ffor a long time, with numerous trials to keep him healthy. It sucks seeing him like this while I have so many fond memories of him.

I miss alot of his actions and his sounds he makes.. waiting for you at the bedroom door..miauwwwww... or his running dow the stairs cause he hears noises in the kicthen [rofl]..

This stuff really gets to me and I find it hard to deal with. I hope I can give him all he needs.

blah.

Here is a pic of him just before it all started..: