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Re: Scooter crossed the bridge today 12-3-16
I wanted to take a moment and thank everyone for always being here for me for the 5 1/2 years Scooter lived with his diabetes. I came to this board a frightened confused mom of a wonderful fur kid and with your help I learned so much. Scooters journey with diabetes had it's ups and downs but the majority of the time he was a healthy happy boy. It was only 3 days before he passed that he developed diarrhea and sporadic vomiting. Refused to eat his dog food so I cooked him chicken and rice which didn't agree with him. So I tried turkey breast and barley.
That also didn't work. I tried everything I could think of to get him to eat. All he wanted was his liver snap cookies. So that's what he got! I knew when he refused to eat them something was seriously wrong. We took him to his vet on Friday morning and they kept him to administer fluids. Did blood work. His BG was so high it wouldn't register. This was so not normal for him. His BUN was off the chart high and his platelets we very low. Other results were abnormal also. They tried everything they could to stabilize him but it was as not to be. His kidneys were failing. We got the call Sat around noon that he was in distress, and filling up with fluids. At this point he was unresponsive. Unfortunately we were unable to be with him when he left this world as we were more than an hour away from the vet when the decision was made to end his suffering. The fact that we weren't with him hurts more than anything. I hope he knows he was in our hearts even though we weren't there. We had our lil buddy cremated and he will be coming home on Monday. Again thank you for the support you gave Scooter and me. We couldn't have been as successful as we were without y'all.
I wanted to take a moment and thank everyone for always being here for me for the 5 1/2 years Scooter lived with his diabetes. I came to this board a frightened confused mom of a wonderful fur kid and with your help I learned so much. Scooters journey with diabetes had it's ups and downs but the majority of the time he was a healthy happy boy. It was only 3 days before he passed that he developed diarrhea and sporadic vomiting. Refused to eat his dog food so I cooked him chicken and rice which didn't agree with him. So I tried turkey breast and barley.
That also didn't work. I tried everything I could think of to get him to eat. All he wanted was his liver snap cookies. So that's what he got! I knew when he refused to eat them something was seriously wrong. We took him to his vet on Friday morning and they kept him to administer fluids. Did blood work. His BG was so high it wouldn't register. This was so not normal for him. His BUN was off the chart high and his platelets we very low. Other results were abnormal also. They tried everything they could to stabilize him but it was as not to be. His kidneys were failing. We got the call Sat around noon that he was in distress, and filling up with fluids. At this point he was unresponsive. Unfortunately we were unable to be with him when he left this world as we were more than an hour away from the vet when the decision was made to end his suffering. The fact that we weren't with him hurts more than anything. I hope he knows he was in our hearts even though we weren't there. We had our lil buddy cremated and he will be coming home on Monday. Again thank you for the support you gave Scooter and me. We couldn't have been as successful as we were without y'all.
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