Help Kimmie pay for her forbidden spaghetti dinner

Hi friends.

Kimmie is an absolute perfect idiot of a trash cat I trapped as a kitten in 2021. She is very sweet and charming, but has never had a thought behind those giant blue Disney cat eyes. Not one, not ever.

A few days ago I noticed she wasn't out pulling her usual jealousy antics or singing her weird little songs in the morning, and by that night she was acting really off and hovering over her water bowl but not drinking. I took her in first thing the next morning for testing, and at that time her blood and urine results were consistent with a diabetic cat in ketoacidosis. I got sent home with fluids and a bottle of insulin and told that if she didn't eat by the next morning she would have to be hospitalized.

I stayed up with her that night, giving her fluids, syringe feeding her rebound and watching her throw it up as the light started to go out of her eyes. We pulled the classic "show up at the emergency vet in the middle of the night" move and this is where things get even wilder. I was a mess, ready to let her go for her sake, but VEG said she had a really good chance of recovery so we left her there

I had initially suspected a foreign body. She had never shown any signs of diabetes or any health concerns before, and VEG did an ultrasound on her that showed a string wrapped around the base of her tongue, causing her small intestines to pile up on themselves. Her levels were all messed up from being in starvation mode, and she straight up faked diabetes, probably to cover for her actual crime. Typical cat.

CRISP stepped right in and covered the lion's share of her surgery and hospitalization once we transferred her back to Countryside- who just so happened to have their specialist surgeon in who had time to do it. I am so, so grateful for that, and also that I couldn't get her to eat so I couldn't give her her first dose of insulin- that we caught it before she perforated or went septic, and that we caught it at all.

She's home now, high as a kite with a giant incision. She has no regrets, nor any apologies.

This side quest cost us $4,135.46- and that is with CRISP's generous assistance.

Halppppppp?