Allie & Gen
Member Since 2025
Yesterday
Happy Saturday, folks! I hope the first weekend of the new year is treating you all well. Safe surfing to your kitties!
So to recap: yesterday Gen's Libre fell off right at the end of what looked like a bounce-breaking cycle. I installed the new one, he was down in the greens, and after a few hours of lots of alarms the sensor freaked out and went offline for 8 hours. (It told me it would be 8 hours, and indeed it was.) He earned a reduction, but as I also was not able to get a PMPS value, I followed advice and gave him a half dose.
(I hate how many gaps I have in his spreadsheet around what was a very interesting three-hour period of greens. I want to know what the whole cycle looked like! Siiiigh.)
Well, he's back in outer space again today, which isn't surprising, but is frustrating/disappointing. Boo. We'll see how things go from here. I'm back in the office starting Monday, so I really hope this sensor lasts now that it's had its little panic attack!
Meanwhile I'm starting to ponder phasing out the dry food. He's been extra insistent on it lately and barely touches his morning wet food until partway through the day, even when I top it with freeze-dried tuna. (He does eat his wet food at night readily most of the time, I imagine because he knows no dry food is forthcoming.) I worry about a transition period where he might not eat enough a) to avoid hypo or b) to keep gaining back his lost weight. But I'd also really like to move from SLGS to TR. Hrm.
I'm wondering about starting to feed him wet and dry from the same dish, and then slowly decreasing the dry, maybe? I looked into maybe transitioning more of his diet to freeze-dried food (so he can still have that crunch), but all the freeze-dried options I looked at were much higher carb than his current dry food! (I only looked at rabbit, venison, etc because I will not give him raw poultry due to bird flu concerns.) Hrm.
Happy Saturday, folks! I hope the first weekend of the new year is treating you all well. Safe surfing to your kitties!
So to recap: yesterday Gen's Libre fell off right at the end of what looked like a bounce-breaking cycle. I installed the new one, he was down in the greens, and after a few hours of lots of alarms the sensor freaked out and went offline for 8 hours. (It told me it would be 8 hours, and indeed it was.) He earned a reduction, but as I also was not able to get a PMPS value, I followed advice and gave him a half dose.
(I hate how many gaps I have in his spreadsheet around what was a very interesting three-hour period of greens. I want to know what the whole cycle looked like! Siiiigh.)
Well, he's back in outer space again today, which isn't surprising, but is frustrating/disappointing. Boo. We'll see how things go from here. I'm back in the office starting Monday, so I really hope this sensor lasts now that it's had its little panic attack!
Meanwhile I'm starting to ponder phasing out the dry food. He's been extra insistent on it lately and barely touches his morning wet food until partway through the day, even when I top it with freeze-dried tuna. (He does eat his wet food at night readily most of the time, I imagine because he knows no dry food is forthcoming.) I worry about a transition period where he might not eat enough a) to avoid hypo or b) to keep gaining back his lost weight. But I'd also really like to move from SLGS to TR. Hrm.
I'm wondering about starting to feed him wet and dry from the same dish, and then slowly decreasing the dry, maybe? I looked into maybe transitioning more of his diet to freeze-dried food (so he can still have that crunch), but all the freeze-dried options I looked at were much higher carb than his current dry food! (I only looked at rabbit, venison, etc because I will not give him raw poultry due to bird flu concerns.) Hrm.
