Bratislava:

[feuervogel]

I'm glad we only budgeted a day and a half there. Even with taking a several-hour detour out to Devin castle, we had way more time than we needed to see the city. It is, however, really really cheap.

Getting two phone calls (from a number I didn't recognize) followed by a text message from my vet,letting me know that Isis has ketones in her urine, starting at midnight, then continuing well past 2 am and finally resolving at 6 am (local; midnight EDT) when little Sarah got her all checked in to the vet school.

So, naturally, I got about 3 hours of sleep, if that, which meant I spent half the day feeling sick to my stomach. Then I got all dehydrated and stuff. And I didn't get my morning coffee.

So anyway, we're in Budapest now, and we've had palacinky (crepes, aka palatschinken in Austria), and I got a coffee a bit ago, which did wonders for my headache. My brain no longer feels like it's being squeezed.

I heard from Sarah that internal medicine is taking Isis' case now, which is probably good news, if it's anything like people hospitals. She's out of the ER, anyway, and into general medicine. I don't appear to have made any notes regarding the exact progress the first time at the vet school in my DW. I don't know if she was admitted to the ICU at all; we can't get any info from the vet school. Sarah's kindly being our go-between, but she hasn't heard any further details.

Hopefully since they were checking urine ketones every 12 hours at the vet clinic (where she's being boarded while we're gone), they caught it early enough that it'll be easy to treat and she can go back to the clinic tomorrow afternoon/evening. And not have another sleepless night for us while they play text message tag.

Comments

[yhibiki]

:( I hope your kitty is okay! I wish her all the best.

Oh, and I got your postcard! Thank you!

[feuervogel]

She's back at the boarding facility now, so she's OK for the short term. We just need to figure out why her diabetes is uncontrolled.

You're welcome!

[faithful-summer.livejournal.com]

Wait... so what happened with the thyroid test?

I'm glad she's with IM now. If they're anything like the IM people at the specialty place here, they'll take super great care of her.

[feuervogel]

It came back normal, so now they're trying to figure out what the reason is her diabetes is poorly controlled. But she's stable and going back to Legion Road this in a couple hours. We'll need to do ultrasounds or something after we get home, probably.

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

Aw hon, I'm sorry.

[feuervogel]

Thanks :) She's doing OK and is gong back to the boarding facility (our vet) in a few hours. we'll have to do more tests after we get home, though.

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

I'm glad. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to have to deal with all this long-distance.

[amakarie.livejournal.com]

:( Scary! Hoping for the best. ♥

[feuervogel]

she's going back to the vet in a couple hours, so the short-term scary is done. But the long-term scary is figuring out why her diabetes is poorly controlled (cancer? kidney trouble? pancreatitis?)

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

Hey, just letting you know, I delivered Isis back to LRAC a minute ago. She seems to be doing okay now, knock on wood. Sorry for having to ping you in the middle of the night about the credit card stuff, but it eventually got worked out.

[feuervogel]

Thanks! Was she appropriately surly and full of hate?

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

She was actually pretty chill in the car. But she apparently gave the NCSU docs some attitude. The vet student who came out and talked to me said something like, "She's a...feisty one," and I said, "Yeah, she's a one-person cat, and we're not that person."

[feuervogel]

Ben argues she's a two-person cat ;) But your point stands.