JustJason
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Lost the dog a year ago last week, and now i'm looking at kitty cat's time on earth. Spooky is your typically run of the mill mutt tabby, a runt, and pushing 18. She has diagnosed kitty diabetes for the last 3 months, for which i'm doing my best on monitering her urine and dosing insulin.
Problem is, I gave her to much insulin this morning, Spook had a siezure this afternoon.
It was a bit crazy, she was on the couch, I in the other room. I heard her start to scream. There is a neighborhood cat that makes it's way into the house every now and then (I leave doors open all the time) and the 2 cat's don't fight, but the sight of the other one pisses Spook off. So I give it a second thinking the other cat is in the house walking through the room, but after the second the scream doesn't sound right, so I run into the living room to see Spooky in full extension, muscles tight, kitty scream, flailing around, having a siezure.
I sort of knew what to do, which is nothing except to make sure the cat didn't fall off the couch. Had a buddy who has since passed who had epilepsy all through out high school. It was only a 10-15 second siezure, but man, I've never seen one in a cat before. It was fairly... violent.
I rushed Spook off to the vets. She was extremely hyperglycemic (sp?). They put her on an IV and sugar water right away. Her urine as in indicator has been almost immposible to moniter for B/S levels. Sometimes she drinks alot of water and the urine is clear, and throws of the litmus test, other times it isn't. According the the vet, her internal organs are turning on and off like a lightswitch.
The cat was a leftover from when my parents moved and didn't want to take her with them. I'm not a cat person, but agreed to take care of it. I really could care less wether it lives or dies.
The cat does it's own thing, is not terribly friendly, and all I do is feed it, pay for it's stuff, and clean out her stinky litterbox. But i'm not a total azz. I don't want to see the thing suffer. I almost made the decision to put her down tonight, but the vet sort of talked me out of it. My vets are fantastic, looked over my 2 now gone dogs, and I take their word as gospel.
I would hate to see the cat go into a huge seizure, for an extended period, and then croak there on the floor.
Has anyone experienced long term kitty siezures?
I would rather see the animal go peacefully in it's sleep, but I wouldn't necessarily know if the cat was siezeing to death in the middle of the night in my own sleep. I'm sort of at odds on what to do. As of right now the cat is fine. The vet assures me the cat is not in pain, and is not during the siezures. I can bring this cat out back and show her mr .22 if I need to, but I wouldn't unless I knew the cat was in hopeless pain. For me it's not about life or death, it's about suffering or not.
Anyone have any insight to kitty cat siezures?
Problem is, I gave her to much insulin this morning, Spook had a siezure this afternoon.
It was a bit crazy, she was on the couch, I in the other room. I heard her start to scream. There is a neighborhood cat that makes it's way into the house every now and then (I leave doors open all the time) and the 2 cat's don't fight, but the sight of the other one pisses Spook off. So I give it a second thinking the other cat is in the house walking through the room, but after the second the scream doesn't sound right, so I run into the living room to see Spooky in full extension, muscles tight, kitty scream, flailing around, having a siezure.
I sort of knew what to do, which is nothing except to make sure the cat didn't fall off the couch. Had a buddy who has since passed who had epilepsy all through out high school. It was only a 10-15 second siezure, but man, I've never seen one in a cat before. It was fairly... violent.
I rushed Spook off to the vets. She was extremely hyperglycemic (sp?). They put her on an IV and sugar water right away. Her urine as in indicator has been almost immposible to moniter for B/S levels. Sometimes she drinks alot of water and the urine is clear, and throws of the litmus test, other times it isn't. According the the vet, her internal organs are turning on and off like a lightswitch.
The cat was a leftover from when my parents moved and didn't want to take her with them. I'm not a cat person, but agreed to take care of it. I really could care less wether it lives or dies.
The cat does it's own thing, is not terribly friendly, and all I do is feed it, pay for it's stuff, and clean out her stinky litterbox. But i'm not a total azz. I don't want to see the thing suffer. I almost made the decision to put her down tonight, but the vet sort of talked me out of it. My vets are fantastic, looked over my 2 now gone dogs, and I take their word as gospel.
I would hate to see the cat go into a huge seizure, for an extended period, and then croak there on the floor.
Has anyone experienced long term kitty siezures?
I would rather see the animal go peacefully in it's sleep, but I wouldn't necessarily know if the cat was siezeing to death in the middle of the night in my own sleep. I'm sort of at odds on what to do. As of right now the cat is fine. The vet assures me the cat is not in pain, and is not during the siezures. I can bring this cat out back and show her mr .22 if I need to, but I wouldn't unless I knew the cat was in hopeless pain. For me it's not about life or death, it's about suffering or not.
Anyone have any insight to kitty cat siezures?
