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Alyssa

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Sheena,
Our next big check up is this Friday or Saturday, so not far. It’s been the longest break between check-ups since Sassy got sick, so I’m super anxious to get on with it! The only reason I haven’t just taken her up there for a quick test to ease my anxiety is because she has seemed good to me and shes not that fond of car rides, so I didn’t want to put her through it unless she seemed to be sliding back.

But I’m really ready for the new numbers and praying they’re good, and we can lower the pred some more. I might be setting myself up for disappointment but I’m really thinking she’ll be in the high 30s at least. She went from 10 to 22 in 3 days, then 27 in 2 days, and it’s been 2 weeks since that 27 number. Shes super pink and really seems to just be effected by the pred now. There isn’t the weakness I saw with the anemia, just the tiredness from the pred.

To be honest, I was a little surprised at the long stretch between visits, but so far I’ve trusted my vet. If I suspected her numbers went down at all I would have taken her sooner, and she assured me she was a call away and I could bring her in at any time. But all signs to me say they haven’t went down.

I still watch her like a hawk! She is never alone – only time she is not being watched is about 3AM to 8AM, and she’s literally sleeping right below me then, and she snores like a train. The my mother watches her til about 1PM. I am up again, watching her until 3AM.

Funny thing is, something good that came out of all of this. I am a type 1 diabetic and have been for about 16 years now. From about age 10, I pretty much became an insomniac, which can be linked to diabetes. About age 15, I started taking OTC sleeping pills. Horrible things. I eventually stopped because they made my heart pound every time I took them, then I couldn’t sleep anyway because I would lay there thinking my heart was going to blow up or something. I switched to the “natural” sleep aids and that went away, and took them pretty much nightly for years, still barely putting me to sleep. When sassy got sick, I stopped all pills to make sure I was alert and wouldn’t fall asleep on her in those first few critical days. I think I slept about 2 hours a day, for over a week. Then as Sassy stabilized, I would pretty much fall asleep when I laid down, no pills. It seems that the extreme week of insomnia kicked my sleeping patterns back to somewhat normal. I haven’t taken a sleeping pill for almost 4 weeks. I never would have been able to stay up like that without a good reason, and Sassy was my reason, so even through this knock on deaths door she has helped me again.

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