Vibes please

[anghara]

Murphy the Magnificent, my first cat and currently the apple of my parents' eye, has been rushed to cat hospital after 48 hours of basically not eating and 12 hours+ of not drinking - and diagnosed with severe diabetes. He is currently in overnight critical care being monitored hourly, with his blood sugar at six times normal for a cat.

Please think good thoughts. He deserves them.

UPDATE
They managed to halve his sugar levels overnight in intensive care, sometimes dropping as low as 200. This morning he was returned to the regular vet where the sugar levels as of this morning dipped as low as 130. He is still not drinking (and is on IV fluids) but apparently he's eaten a little solid something, which is good. But now there's apparently a secondary infection that they're dealing with, and he isn't out of the woods yet.

Thank you, everybody. It all helped, I"m sure. The weight of goodwill is never easy for bad times to bear. I thank you. Murph thanks you.

Comments

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. Good thoughts are headed your way. We got our cats' blood results yesterday. Pippin the Pudge has elevated blood glucose. He's not diabetic yet, but the vet said that if we don't get the weight off of him, he will be, so this is all the more reason to be a meanie and deny him his food. I hate to do it, but I don't want him to be like your sweet Murphy. (The cat is basically a fur-covered slug. I don't think it's that he eats too much; he moves too little. He gets no exercise. When I try to play with him and get him to jump, he just wants to be petted.)