Our vet Dr. Brenda Culver called yesterday afternoon with the first set of test results on Teddy, and the news was not good: Our little guy is severely diabetic. His glucose levels should be in the range of 100-120, and Teddy was at 652. Oh, my.
That could explain why he's blind, too.
Brenda was starting him on insulin to bring his glucose levels down, but it can take a while to find the right type of insulin and the right dose. Brenda's husband, Dr. Britt Culver, is our internal medicine specialist there and will be following up on Teddy's treatment protocol. He will also be doing an abdominal ultrasound tomorrow that will include a look at his pancreas.
When Brenda told me about Teddy's diagnosis, I immediately thought back to our last diabetes case. It was in 2006, when an adorable Jack Russell/Fox Terrier mix named Sammy came to us with a long history of untreated diabetes. It was a heartbreaking series of ups-and-downs, and Sammy spent as much time in the hospital as he did at the ranch. In the end, we lost him after just a few months.
If there is anything positive to come out of that … well, Sammy was as difficult a diabetes case to manage as there is, so we are much more knowledgeable and prepared for Teddy's diabetes than we would have been.
Please keep Teddy in your thoughts. We're going to hope this is the only thing we'll find out he's got — and yes, that his will be an easy, textbook case of diabetes to treat!
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