Ginny Update

this pic is from last week,
but I love it and I obviously
don't have any pictures of her
from today

We spoke with the emergency vet last night for the latest info on Ginny. The internal medicine vet did an ultrasound of her abdomen, and they put the catheter in to administer all of her fluids and medication. She apparently handled all of these things nicely and was also making friends with the techs taking care of her. Overall, it was good news. Her glucose was still incredibly high, but we'd been told it would be a slow process to regulate that, so we went to bed feeling somewhat hopeful.

C and I called this morning to check on her and it sounded like she slept well overnight and was tolerating all of the medication fairly well. She also ate a little bit this morning, which was a positive sign.

We were supposed to go away this weekend, but that's no longer happening. Our plan was to take the train to NYC tomorrow morning and then return home on Sunday night. We had tickets to both Aladdin and The Lion King, as well as Pixar Putt, which looks to be a super cool Pixar-themed mini golf experience. We were very much looking forward to all three - we'd never seen Aladdin on Broadway; we had seen The Lion King on Broadway, but in Las Vegas; and of course, Pixar Putt just seemed like a fun thing to do.

In a totally unrelated turn of events, we got an email last week that the Aladdin production had been shut down due to covid, so we would be getting a refund for those tickets. While I was pretty disappointed, we figured we'd be able to see it another time and I was still excited about the weekend.

not the best news,
but it ended out working out
in our favor

In light of what's going on with Ginny, we're obviously not going anywhere this weekend.

Fortunately, the cancellation policy for Broadway is very flexible right now, so we canceled our Sunday tickets for The Lion King last night, and because we'd purchased business class seats on the Acela train, we were able to cancel those tickets as well. The only money we're out is for the tickets to Pixar Putt; I waffled on buying the cancellation protection and ultimately decided against it when I made the purchase, but it's not that big of a deal. Clearly we're happy we were able to cancel the hotel, show, and train, but even if we hadn't been able to do any of those things, it wouldn't have mattered because there's no way we'd leave Ginny right now.

C worked at home alone all day with no Ginny, which is a first in as long as we can remember and certainly since the pandemic began and C's been working from home. I went to school and was basically a nervous wreck, employing the "fake it 'til you make it" approach to pretend I was fine.

We ended up speaking at length with the internal medicine vet this evening and the short version of that conversation is this: Ginny is comfortable and being monitored around the clock. Her Cushings disease has resulted in diabetes, as well as some other issues, but her numbers/values are slowly headed in the right direction. We are hoping she'll be able to come home on Monday, but we're really just taking it one day at a time. There are lots of little details and some pretty big milestones she'll need to reach before there's even a discussion about her being discharged, but we are cautiously optimist right now.

More to come in the days ahead.

Happy Tails to you...