Feline diabetes is a big disease. After it invades your cat, it invades your life - leaving almost nothing untouched. It can be tragic, frustrating, annoying. It can be the dull ache behind your temples or the nagging in your gut. It's always there, no matter where you are, so you just deal with it.
Along with the dull ache, though, kitty diabetes bring lots of opportunity to laugh. Stuff happens. Sometimes we can laugh at the stuff right away. Other times it takes a while. One of the joys of the Feline Diabetes Message Board lies in the sharing of the stuff. Interspersed with the tragic and the mundane is the hilarious -- stories that have made me laugh so hard my gut ache was replaced by a side ache.
So that we never forget that having a sugar cat around the house isn't all bad, I've gathered a few of my favorite posts from FDMB.
- Kristine describes the scene of her first injection for newly-diagnosed Harley. Ah, the memories!
- Rule number one for feline diabetes is: the cat must eat. So, what does one do when the cat in question decides to turn his pink little nose up at the prescription diet recommended by the vet? Well, one can change foods... or one can outsmart the cat, like Rocky's Dad.
- Rule number two is that the cat is supposed to eat low carb. And no, chocolate chips don't count, even if they are stolen from the fridge on the sly in the middle of the night.
- Dog food doesn't count either - no matter how hard the cat tries to look like a dog.
- Finally, since these are cats, there are sometimes other challenges that come along with the package.
If anyone has other favorite funny stories about diabetic kitties, send me a link and when I get enough, I'll post another compilation.
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