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They didn't leave who ovaries, but they must have left some tissue behind. I've heard it can cause the heat cycles to continue. Nothing showed up on her abdominal xrays, but they don't show the whole picture. Our current vet is a different one than the vet who did the emergency spay- closer...

Hi, everyone - I'd like to give you a little history on our Kirby and ask for ideas on what could be going on with her, based on your experiences. Kirby is a beautiful tabby that we rescued as a stray malnourished kitten back in Oct. 03. So she'll be 4 in a couple of months. When she was...

Thanks! She had a complete blood workup, and everything looked fine - liver panel, enzymes, thyroid, WBC/CBC. She hadn't urinated for them by the time they closed today, and they couldn't draw any urine because her colon was full and in the way. We'll have to check the UA tomorrow. So far...

Our Kirby started freaking out yesterday. She's a stressed out cat and is on valium, but for the past 2 months she's been on it, she hasn't peed on the floor or acted out at all. She's really improved. Then yesterday evening I heard her make a sound I've never heard in the 3 years she's been...

I agree - I don't think the eyedrops would do that. When kitty stops eating and especially drinking and with vomiting and diarrhea, they dehydrate very quickly. Pooping outside the box is a very big way of letting you know that hey, mom, something's wrong! I'd say the vet needs to be...

I have a diabetic cat myself. The injections are small here too - just 1 unit - but they need to be given as close to the same time each day as possible. It's pretty important. As far as glucose meters, I'm sure you'll get a variety of results when searching for the best. We have an accuchek...

Hi, all! Hope you are all doing well. As some of you may remember, our Spock had severe pancreatitis and diabetes with ketoacidosis back in December. His glucose levels tend to fluctuate - for a while he was on 2 units of insulin twice a day, now he's on 1 unit once a day. I don't like...

I'm so glad everything is OK! We usually put up a tree with ornaments, never tinsel, but this year I had to change my strategy because of the kittens. I only put soft stuffed ornaments with no hooks, which is good since our little fake tree has been picked up off the floor 4 times already. I...

Thank you all so much for your healing thoughts and prayers. Spock is doing well and may get to come home for a trial run tonight. He is on prednisone for his pancreatitis and is supposed to be on it for about 2 weeks, so he'll get that at home. The problem is, the pred is driving his glucose...

The test results came back finally from Texas, and Spock definitely has pretty bad pancreatitis, and the diabetes appears to be secondary to that. It is also resulting in a diseased lower intestine. His blood sugar went back up this morning, but they started the steroids for the pancreatitis...

Welcome to the forum! I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with the waiting aspect. If she continues having them, it's better to be safe than sorry. In late August, my 2 1/2 year old kitty Morgan started having seizures. They were related to brain lesions possibly caused by toxoplasmosis...

Don't be too hard on yourself. I know I beat myself up repeatedly during our 5rescued kittens' journey through illness after illness. Seems like as soon as I started letting them out of the back room, most of our other 8 started coming down with mysterious illnesses. It is so hard medicating...

I asked my husband to take something with him when he went this morning, but I don't think he did. I'm going to take a shirt with me today. He's doing a little better today, thankfully. He's more alert and used the litterbox instead of the constant urinating on himself. Hopefully we'll get...

Thank you for sharing your experience. It's good to know that he had another happy ten years with you. We're still waiting to find out if the diabetes caused the pancreatitis or if the pancreatitis caused the diabetes so we'll know how to proceed with treatment. I don't feed any table scraps...

I agree - the inner eyelids showing is almost always indicative of some sort of illness. Best wishes to you all!

Spock seems to be doing a bit better. He was vomiting up the IV fluids, so they gave him more reglan, and they started insulin this morning. Now we're waiting to find out if the pancreatitis caused the diabetes or vice versa. Please keep your fingers crossed for us! Thanks.

One of ours had crazy eyes and extreme weakness after a sedative, and anesthesia can definitely cause the symptoms you're describing, in my experience. Has everything returned to normal?

Thank you all. He started declining quite a bit today, so I took him back in. I knew he was dehydrated and running a fever. By the time we got to the vet's he was dripping diarrhea and urine. They are going to try to stabilize him over the next couple of days (he's there on IV), then start...