Spared the kitty shots

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So not on my BINGO card for 2025, today I found out my cat is diabetic. He only has one kidney, and over the weekend started spraying stuff. He has never sprayed stuff so I made an appointment with the vet to check if he had a UTI. Nope no UTI. Straight up diabetes. (He had his annual and blood work done 2 months ago and was fine) Even the vet was like I wasn't expecting that. My cat is not overweight he has always been in the ideal weight range so it was a surprise.

So usually the treatment is insulin with twice daily shots. But they just recently came out with a once a day oral med. So we opted to try that. The kicker ... the meds will be at least 100$ a month. But hey now my cat won't be subjected to daily shots and in case of an insulin shortage won't die cause this med is a cat med.

That was my kindness post. Cause it is gonna be an expensive few months while we do repeated labs to make sure he responds to this meds. I know people who have put down their cats for this.

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