Thursday, May 26, 2011

Support the effort to stop Feline Diabetes!

I know this strays from the norm, but this is an issue and a cause that I really support.

So about 2 months ago or so, my cat was diagnosed with Feline Diabetes. Her blood sugar levels were at
435 (Which for felines, blood sugar is supposed to be at 150 if it wants to be alright without the use of insulin.) Originally, she was placed on this food that is supposed to lower her blood sugar, and it worked for about two or three weeks. The only problem is, her blood sugar kept spiking between meal and now she is on insulin that we have to give to her twice a day.

Doing this really cuts into any plans that my family tries to make because we have to center our lives around delivering my cat her insulin at the same time everyday. But what can you do? Our cat depends on it to live.

And of course, the insulin and the special food make her have diarrhea from time to time, and she pees a river and all of it stinks far worse than before so we are dumping the litter box every two to three days because it gets so bad. We also have to fork out money for $65 bottles of insulin and $42 bags of cat food for her, but you can only get these things through the vet. Again, what can you do? My cat relies on us to keep her alive.

When I discovered she was diagnosed, I instantly looked up sites about Feline Diabetes and came across this site: Feline Diabetes

This site helps to educate you in the issue of Feline Diabetes and takes donations in order to help the effort to help your feline's heath.

It is this reason that I ask you to donate something, even a dollar, to help with the effort of cat's health.

My aunt had a cat with Feline Diabetes once. It was when she was moving, she had not had a chance to check his blood levels for about a month. It was then one day where she walked into the house and he was laying dead on the floor from a blood sugar spike. She was heartbroken by this because her cat was like her family, he had been there for so many years of her life. Please help to prevent something like this from happening again.

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