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[cjsmith]

Preliminary update from the blood lab: glucose high. I don't have a number on that nor do I have an "upshot" (insulin required or not). The rest of the report will arrive Monday, including stuff like thyroid numbers.

I've already told my vet that if she's diabetic I'll want to switch to a veterinarian closer to where I live. He suggested I ask the emergency clinics for a recommendation. "They usually know," he said. "As these animals come in they know whether a vet's any good." I bet that's excellent advice.

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[tryslora]

Yep, human pharmacy. But without human insurance. *wry smile*

For the monitoring, yes, you can definitely take a shower and go about your normal stuff and just keep peeking at her periodically.

I could see the blood testing working with a normal test kit. Kitty levels are different than human levels. Well, actually they aren't, but it's harder to get a kitty into the optimum place without rising low blood sugar, so at least for us, we were told to expect her to run a bit high regularly.