Well, it's official. Squeaker has diabetes. Apparently, the combination of previous insulinoma surgery and prolonged steroid therapy (pediapred) has shut down her pancreas. She is drinking and peeing up a storm, and she is spilling both sugar and ketones in her urine. A better glucose was taken this afternoon, an hour after she ate, and has confirmed -- her glucose was 453!!! Insulin is the only alternative now, and the vet tells us that her glucose will be very hard to regulate. We'll have to give injections twice a day and take her in every week for blood tests. I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone else who has dealt with this. Diabetes is very rare in ferts, I know, but I figure this is the place to find anyone else who may've had this problem. -Tasha Please visit my fanfiction site at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/5368/... The development of our cerebral cortex has been the greatest achievement of the evolutionary processes. Big deal. -- Fox Mulder, FBI Verbum sapienti: quo plus habent, eo plus cupiunt. Post nubila, Phoebus. -- Enya [Posted in FML issue 2179]