Emergency vet
I am at the 24 hour vet. Dora is super sick, or looks like it to me. I wouldn't be surprised if I am going home alone. She has had what I think is called peripheral neuropathy where her back legs are weak ever since she's been diabetic. It got a lot better after she went on insulin and then started getting worse again.
Last time she was at the vet, they said her blood sugar was pretty normal. Then she started getting very skinny, her back like a xylophone. They hadn't caught her diabetes until it was really late so at this point I don't have a lot of confidence in them. I upped her insulin and she seemed better though her eating was still a little off.
Tonight I came home from dinner and she was dragging herself around. She could barely move. I waited half an hour to see if it was some weird passing thing but it wasn't. Her stomach has been kind of bloaty looking and she doesn't let me pick her up anymore but this time she raised her paw to scratch me when I touched it at all.
I struggled with the carrier which doesn't go together easily. I asked around for a 24 hour vet. (Big surprise, they are far from me.) She was sick enough she got in the carrier without any protest and didn't make much noise going out to catch a cab.
The place is in a desolate corner of the Upper East Side. They seem nice. She's back with the doctors. They had me sign something agreeing to stabilize her for $400-600. Who knows after that. Maybe she's gone. Maybe she's ok but I'm going to spend all my money keeping her around.
The timing, let us just say, is not so good.
I brought a klonopin. I haven't taken it yet though I'm upset and very apprehensive.
If she goes, she's had a pretty nice time and has been a very good little friend. If she doesn't, I am even more upset about her having to travel for a full day. A 15-minute ride finds her drooling an biting my finger if I put it in the cage. I can't imagine putting her through 10 hours (transit to airport, layover in Houston) and without me (can't remember if I mentioned, Dad is being very nice and flying her.)
I am not having an easy time of it right now.