Miss Sparkles is adrenal and probably has been for a while. She was diagnosed with insulumina (spelling?) last week. Thursday evening was the first time in five days she even got up and moved about, other than to go to the litter box. During the week, I was able to hand feed her some food. Now that she's feeling just a little better and came move around for a few minutes, she doesn't want to eat anything we offer. She was eating Nutri-Cal from the tube quite readily and is now turning her nose up at that. She munched down on some Totally Ferret treats yesterday and won't touch them today. I bought Iams kitten food canned food and pouch food, meat based baby foods, and several ferret / kitten treats to try with her with no luck. Today, she's probably only eaten 1 1/2 tsp of Nutri-Cal, two pieces of Totally Feret treats and some water. Margaret was nice enough to leave some duck soup for us, but she hates it. Any suggestions? We are desperate. She absolutely hates the Prednisone we have to give her and, I fear she's using up a lot of what energy she has fighting us over it. At first, we could mix it w/ something and she'd lick it up. Now, she holds her mouth together as tightly as she can and fights with everything she has. She's only been getting Prednisone since Tuesday. The vet said we could get the Prednisone pills, but they apparently have a very bitter taste to them and I don't see her eating that mixed in with something, any better than she's now doing with the liquid. The vet called us with her test results Friday. At the time of her severe crash on Monday morning, her blood glucose level was five times higher than the highest amount with which the vet would have been comfortable for Miss Sparkles. Five times higher! The vet says she is using up sugar faster than we can get it in her. On top of that, without any hair, she shivers like crazy when she is out of the cage and the shivering is using up a lot of her energy. We've tried different things to keep her warm when she's out of the cage, even sliding the top part of a sock around her body. She won't have it. Yesterday and today, she was out of the cage and moved around the house for, probably, a total of 15 minutes each day, falling over an awful lot while she's out. We want to make things as pleasant for her as we can and give her a good quality of life. However, is 15 minutes of painful movement and catatonic sleep for the remainder of the day a good quality of life? Larry and I both cry and cry over the prospect of putting her to sleep, but we also cry over the life she is now living. On a personal health note, it is taking its toll on me as well. I have a very rare medical condition, called erythromelalgia, that makes my feet and lower legs flare (feel like they're on fire, get really, really hot, swell, etc.) when I get even the slightest bit warm. When trying to take care of Miss Sparkles by spending the time needed to try and get her to eat and watch after her, I am dealing with some severe flaring afterward. [Posted in FML issue 4795]