12/7/22 Jackson AMPS 497 +2 412 +4 334 +6 318 PMPS 423 +2 370 + 6 309

Skye & Jackson

Skye & Jackson

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Scary high this morning. A ridiculous bounce from only briefly hitting as low as 200 last night. I pray pray pray the insulin I just gave him will pull him down - even though I know the increased dosage will take a few cycles to take effect, this is frightening and I just want him down. Down out of the 400s. And I fear he’s going to cross 500 any minute now. He’s only been this high once and it was his first bounce on his first day home from the hospital, when he had gone symptomatically hypo the cycle before. That didn’t happen last night. I’m scared. And I feel like there’s nothing I can do now.

At least he’s hungry this morning… :eek::nailbiting::arghh:
 
I just got a blood sample, it was an actual battle. Involved twisting, growling, claws, and tears (mine). He’s now at 0.8 mmol/L ketones today. Blood glucose 455. What do I do? I have to bring down the blood sugar and keep it down. But how? And now he’s so mad at me too. :arghh: And now his sugar will likely stay elevated even longer this morning because of the stress I just put him through…
 
At just before +1, he still read HI. At just after +1 it’s now 490 and dropping rapidly (or so Libre says; it’s still way off the actual graph). 5 minutes after that, reading 485, though the downward arrow is now showing a slope and not pointing straight down anymore.
 
412 now, currently a more rapid drop again per Libre. He is eating and drinking well. Currently drinking as I type, in fact.
 
Was just studying his spreadsheet. I hope things will improve as the depot builds up to 1.75. It’s not uncommon to see dose changes like this. Darcy used to have new dose wonkiness on the day after an increase (he went higher.) You are doing just such a great job - and with everything you have going on too! He will get into better numbers! He will! Hang on. Just keep up the ketone testing. I’m glad you have those blood ketone readings. .8 is not what we want, but it’s not going to put him in the hospital under normal circumstances. As long as he keeps eating and drinking, he’s going to be okay.
 
I cannot promise to be able to check his blood ketones every day. Today it almost didn’t happen - the one who bled first was me. But I can do urine every day, and blood when he’s feeling more agreeable. (The way he’s purr-snuggling now, you’d never know this morning happened - cats.)

I was getting really worried yesterday morning about him not eating well… but today he’s back headfirst into the food dishes. In retrospect, I may have been panicking over him simply not being hungry because he’d recently munched before I woke up, or something… but he has lost some weight again (not much but he was borderline at his most recent best, so even a little loss is apparent), and I feel constantly on guard and jumpy for trouble when he runs so high.
 
Skye & Jackson said:
I cannot promise to be able to check his blood ketones every day. Today it almost didn’t happen - the one who bled first was me. But I can do urine every day, and blood when he’s feeling more agreeable. (The way he’s purr-snuggling now, you’d never know this morning happened - cats.)

I was getting really worried yesterday morning about him not eating well… but today he’s back headfirst into the food dishes. In retrospect, I may have been panicking over him simply not being hungry because he’d recently munched before I woke up, or something… but he has lost some weight again (not much but he was borderline at his most recent best, so even a little loss is apparent), and I feel constantly on guard and jumpy for trouble when he runs so high.
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I completely understand that!
 
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