When we started out it was a two-person operation to test Luci as well...an exhausting two-person battle to wrangle and hold her in position while I clumsily tried to position and poke her ears...believe it or not it got easier with time - after a while I could even manage to get Luci into position and get the poke all by myself - she was all about the treat she was going to get for allowing me to do what needed to be done. I kept telling myself it's this or your life - so this is what I'm choosing.
I hope you can get some mid-cycle tests, otherwise if you look at Luci's SS, you'll see she likes those 'yellow bookends' I call them - she's always in the yellow at AMPS and PMPS - if I didn't test her in between those two times, I'd never know what was going on with her. If you're gone all day to work, then night time will have to do - yes, that will mean setting an alarm to get up (ugh, I know) in the middle of the night a time or two - it's important to find out when he's hitting his nadir (the lowest point to which the insulin may be taking him)....without getting some readings mid-term you should not change his dosage again - let's find out what he's doing between those AM and PM readings...??
