Couchy
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2011
My pleasure!
Posted some of the Facebook pictures from AK and EP on the Lily thread.
This one is my favorite!
cutest picture
Lily is soooo cuteGood morning, and Happy New Year to my BC/YC family,
I know that this is off-topic, but I'm sure Dee won't mind.
About 10 days ago, I posted asking for prayers/thoughts for our cat Henry, who was having what the vets called a "diabetic crisis," and I'm so grateful for the love, prayers, thoughts and pixie dust you sent. I felt it, Tom (jnpants) felt it, and I know Henry felt it. Unfortunately, this was a battle we were not destined to win, and we had to say goodbye to our Henry on Friday. I won't bore or depress you with all the medical details, but basically, it happened so fast, I can barely get it straight. We went from, "Henry looks a little weak...maybe we should take him to the vet.." on 12/19...to him being diagnosed with diabetes on the 20th, rushed to the emergency vet on the 22nd, where we were told he was having a diabetic crisis, or essentially was in a diabetic shock. The vets were concerned about his situation, but confident they could regulate his insulin and then hand him over to us for his care. He rallied and improved slowly right up through Christmas Day, but on the 26th, we got a call that he was slipping backwards, and come to find out....and you won't believe this...he had a tumor sitting on his adrenal gland, which was secreting a hormone that was actively counteracting the insulin we were pumping into him. So in essence, the tumor drove him into diabetic shock, and then deflected any treatment needed to get him out of it. It is very, very rare, and it left us no choice but to say goodbye peacefully before he was in any pain. At that point, luckily, the vet assured us that he merely felt as if he had a low-grade fever- uncomfortable, but not in pain.
Again, our hearts are broken. He was a member of the family, and it happened so quick, I'm having trouble processing it. He was also only 8, which for an indoor cat, I only consider middle-aged at best. Due to the snowstorm, I am home alone today and tomorrow, and I already can't tell you how quiet the house is. We have another cat...his sister from the same litter, but we're quickly realizing how quiet she is, and that Henry "said" a lot by his mere presence. We are still blessed to have Grace remaining, and she has no idea of the love about to come her way. If there's any silver lining, she is the lower-maintenence, more independent of the two, so people ask how she is, and I really think she's fine. I'm sure she knows her dads are sad, and realizes that "the big one" hasn't been here for a week or so, but I firmly believe she'll be ok.
This has been off-topic, but this thread really is like a family, and I thought those of you who were thinking of Henry would want to know. I also posted a humorous pic of him for NinjaMom, all sprawled out on our bed a few months back, and I wanted to do him more justice and post a really handsome pic of him. It's one of my favorites, and actually pretty recent. It's probably from Sept. or Oct. of 2013.
I'm planning to become a lot more active on here to get my mind off of things, and think that later today or tomorrow, I'm going to start up a PTR for our 8/14 trip. I'd like for once to do a really good, complete PTR and TR.
Thanks again...I'll leave you with Henry.
Scott - so sorry for your loss... as a diabetic myself I can only tell you that it is so good that Henry did not feel the pain that could come... I am a total animal person and understand the loss that it is when one of our babies needs to go on without us... good thoughts to you
Nannette- glad you are having fun visiting your daughter
losing a precious furbaby is so hard
We had no clue!! 
so I'm hoping to help him find his Disney love by staying on the other side of the world. It will be a true resort changer record if I keep this reservation intact. My kids will help...they are jazzed about SAB. Thanks again for the warm welcome back 
. I rebooked it for the following year (same week, only change was one hotel). We almost didn't make that one due to Hurricane Sandy and half a foot of snow the night before we left. I told myself we would be going and if we didn't make it that time I wasn't going. It was the best vacation we ever had.
