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Kaldannan Aug 18, 2024

First off, I want to thank everyone whose incredible kindness helped me pay for both Toby's and Immi's vet bills. Toby's came out to $254 and change (forgot to take a picture of that), Immi's came out to $434.39.

Based on what I told the vet, she speculated Immi might be diabetic, which I hadn't considered, and the bloodwork results confirmed it.

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Kaldannan Aug 18, 2024

Thankfully, we seem to have caught it relatively early enough that there's no damage to the rest of her organs — her thyroid values are also normal, thank fuck — though the vet guesstimated she's been diabetic for at least six months now. It is treatable with insulin, which means an insulin shot once every 12 hours for the rest of her life, and which means I need to have a staredown with my own health issues to be 100% certain I can commit to this.

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Kaldannan Aug 18, 2024

The insulin and needles won't be the expensive part, as one vial will last two months on average. The bulk of the cost will come from repeated bloodwork panels to see whether the dose she's on is working for her, and this is what that'll look like at first.

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Alan Miller

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@Kaldannan I learned recently that you can use the same glucose monitoring devices from humans on cats (Freestyle, Dexcom, maybe some non FDA approved ones sold for fitness training?). Might be worth looking into. If so, third party adhesive rings are much better than included ones.