Ladywolf Is Doing Really Well! Options

[ladywolf]

I couldn't help but start a new thread, because Ladywolf on insulin is a different kind of animal! She is alert and awake and perky and fresh and mischievous and smart and eating well, and just generally acting like a new Wolf, leg tumors notwithstanding! She's moving all over the place and acting like she is re-born...

I know that this may be temporary, but I needed to start a thread with a new title, as befits the new wolf!

Hugs, Margi, Wonderwolf and Sweet Pea

[ladywolf]

Thanks, Jan. No, I haven't managed to do any urine testing--I can never catch her peeing. I've ordered a blood glucose meter which hasn't arrived, and learned lots of ways to blood-test dogs, but haven't had the chance to yet.

I can't afford to take her to the vet. Just one day of bloodtesting would cost over $200, and I don't even have the money for my June rent, or for food for Lady in a few days. I quite suddenly became unemployed in May. So I'll have to try to figure it out myself. The glucose meter should be here within a day or two, I think. I hate that I can't afford to get her proper care, but I can't afford proper care for myself, either...

Hopefully, she will rebound from this incident. It's the first time that I saw signs of hypoglycemia, and put Karo syrup on her gums, as instructed. Now she is totally wiped out. I hate that the vets here are SO expensive! Is it true in the UK too?

Thanks--Margi and Ladywolf

[Rhapsedy]

Margi,

I'm so sorry that Ladywolf had a bad night. Is she doing better today?

Rhapsedy

[ladywolf]

Margi,

I'm so sorry that Ladywolf had a bad night. Is she doing better today?

Rhapsedy

Thanks, everyone, for your kind thoughts. Lady is still outside, in fact, I had trouble finding her when I woke up--she was lying under a rosebush in a hole she had dug for herself to be cool. She's acting really lethargic and dopey and won't eat, and I think that that famous "light" has gone out of her eyes. I have no way of getting free advice, and don't know whether to give insulin this a.m., on top of no food, or not. She's getting 11 units twice a day, Jan, but I only gave her five last night because she didn't eat.

Now she's at least in the house, came in a couple of minutes ago. At least I can keep tabs on her now. She's breahting hard, and lying on the kitchen floor.
I don't know what to do. I'll try calling the vet to see if anyone will talk to me, off the time clock...

This could be the end, I suppose...

Margi and Wonderwolf

P.S. Sweet Pea may have to be put to sleep today too. She is not healing, and now has something in her lungs too...