Hitting the (approximate) six-year-old mark has not proven to be good for sweet Cyprus. She is diabetic and she is blind. And she's falling apart. Last month, she developed issues that sort of shut down her gastrointestinal system, leading to vomiting and extreme diarrhea and then she became ketotic and her body was beginning to digest itself. She was bleeding out a most foul discharge. I had to sequester her in the shower so that she didn't leave a trail all over the house:
This led to an emergency vet visit, of course, that then led to a hurried trip to Greensboro for an ultrasound and consult with a specialist veterinary internist. They hospitalized her for two days.
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| Belly Shaved for the Ultrasound |
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| Shaved Spot for the IVs |
She got better for a while but today, our house-sitters then reported that she did not eat and pooped multiple times and it resolved to terrible diarrhea. Diarrhea, of course, isn't scoopable poop, so the backyard is now dotted all over with shovels-full of scooped topsoil:
Update. As soon as I drove in from Asheville Thursday afternoon, I took her to the vet and waited until they could work us in. The vet thinks it's essentially the same GI issue and re-prescribed medication to control the diarrhea so that we could try to get her on track again. You could tell how bad she felt as we headed back home after that:
She ate her dinner most voraciously Thursday night but then has refused to eat again for the following two days. That means I can't give her any insulin, which means she continues to feel bad, which means she's not hungry, and it's just a vicious cycle. Her bout of this in June proved that's it's also viciously expensive: those few days tallied to around two grand.
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She's a mighty sweet girl, and she's lucky to have you.
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