The past seven days have been a real roller-coaster of a week. The two weeks prior to last weekend weren’t much better.
May 27
Throughout the day, Sibylle noticed that Nekko was behaving a bit oddly. As her symptoms became more pronounced, Sibylle took Nekko to the vet. Nekko had experienced hypoglycemia, or insulin shock. There was too [...]
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Missing Nekko
Posted in family on Jun 12th, 2008
Several times since Monday I have started to write something about Nekko, but each time I found the emotion too strong to capture in words. I still feel a sense of emptiness, of being hollow. Nekko was with me for eleven years. She moved from Illinois to Washington, and then to South Carolina, back to [...]
Nekko (1997 - 2008)
Nekko’s condition, after seeming to stabilize Wednesday and Thursday, started to diminish on Friday. She stopped eating and was more and more listless through out the day. By Saturday morning we were concerned that she wasn’t eating, and had, apparently, not moved her bowels in a couple of days. At the recommendation of our vet [...]
For the past week, Sibylle and I have kept a much closer watch on Nekko, her insulin injections, her food intake, litter box usage, and general overall demeanor. For the most part Nekko has seemed to be fine. She still displayed some aggressiveness around our food, but willingly ate her own food. We reduced her [...]
We are hopeful that Nekko’s episode with insulin shock was an isolated event. Since Tuesday we have closely monitored her eating and insulin, and haven’t seen any evidence of another bottoming out like Sibylle caught that day.
For her part, Nekko, seems to be normal again. She still displays some aggressiveness around our food, needing to [...]
For the past twenty months Nekko’s diabetes has been under control. Sibylle and I have eased into a pattern where she administers the AM shot, and I take care of the PM shot. The last several spot checks of her blood glucose levels have been good, and the blood glucose curve we had performed in [...]
Twice in recent months, Sibylle and I have discovered that prescriptions aren’t forever. Our oldest cat, Nekko, has diabetes and consequently gets insulin twice daily. The original prescription was labeled “99 refills,” which at roughly three months per fill, would last for more than 24 years.
Imagine my surprise to have a refill denied because it [...]
In the last fourteen months I have administered roughly 770 insulin shots. Our cat, Nekko, is diabetic and as such requires twice daily shots to survive.
At first I wasn’t very good at giving her the shots. The terribly brief instruction I was given, before brining her home from the hospital, did nothing to [...]
When she was first diagnosed with diabetes last September, Nekko started getting two units of insulin twice a day (every twelve hours). Attempts to get her blood glucose level checked failed twice so it wasn’t until late February that we finally got a measurement of her blood sugar (glucose) level.
At 335 it was high, but [...]
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