Mad Scientist and Buddy
Member Since 2010
Yesterday
Good morning all!
Friday mornings are so much easier of a drive to work it's chilly but sunny here in NJ and it only took 1.5 hours and less stressful driving due to a bit less volume (apparently a lot of people take off Fridays). AMPS a bit higher than I would have liked, but I'm pretty sure I got a possible partial fur shot last night. He spends most of his time lowered on all fours which makes it hard to get a tent anywhere on his body, front/rear haunches or scruff of the neck. This morning was a bit easier to get blood, though. I definitely tried rubbing the ear more before even beginning anything else. I would love to go back to hand pricking the ear, but like I said, he yelps when I do that. He fights me a little with backing away sometimes and often folding over his ear, but most times 95% he doesn't say a word, so I'm stuck with figuring out the lancet pen pricking. It only took 4 tries today, and as someone said, I may be missing some of the time . . .
So we need to talk seriously about food spike here. He woke me up at 3:30 this morning for food (usually this time to 4am). I gave him ~3oz. LC 9lives wet. When I woke at 5:30, he so wanted to eat. I tried getting him to settle down, thinking this is perfect, he had a bite at 3:30 - that makes 2 hrs. But there was just no way. So he had been eating for about 10-12 minutes before I actually got the blood drop. Is this fast enough to not see too much food spike? There really is no way to get the sample short of holding him down (which would elevate his BG from stress anyway right?).
Now for daily journal type stuff, I am going to use AMPS and PMPS posts for other observations, so if you don't want to hear about the quality of his poo, stop reading now. I used to keep a written journal after his DX, but I need to keep things in one place, perhaps at the end of each week, I'll print out and paste into the journal so when I see the vet or talk on the phone, I have it all in front of me. . .
He has started pooing in piles again much like when free feeding on DM dry. And the color is lighter. I don't know if this is from high BG, the change in food again to higher fat content FF, 9lives and Evo95% from the DM wet, or if it is because he is eating soooo much and his body doesn't fully process it. They are lightly formed piles, not pudding not well formed tootsie rolls. He has taken to drinking water from the tub again (he can finally get in and out more easily). He is peeing a lot, not as much as when on DM dry. Also, while he still has some trouble jumping, he can get himself onto the dinning table from the chair to look for his bowl of food (I have a towel down for when he eats while I test and inject).
He still does not play and spends most of his time in the kitchen waiting to be fed again. He had a lot of food last night probably 13oz or so just with dinner/snacks for the night.
Happy Friday!
Tony and Buddy
Good morning all!
Friday mornings are so much easier of a drive to work it's chilly but sunny here in NJ and it only took 1.5 hours and less stressful driving due to a bit less volume (apparently a lot of people take off Fridays). AMPS a bit higher than I would have liked, but I'm pretty sure I got a possible partial fur shot last night. He spends most of his time lowered on all fours which makes it hard to get a tent anywhere on his body, front/rear haunches or scruff of the neck. This morning was a bit easier to get blood, though. I definitely tried rubbing the ear more before even beginning anything else. I would love to go back to hand pricking the ear, but like I said, he yelps when I do that. He fights me a little with backing away sometimes and often folding over his ear, but most times 95% he doesn't say a word, so I'm stuck with figuring out the lancet pen pricking. It only took 4 tries today, and as someone said, I may be missing some of the time . . .
So we need to talk seriously about food spike here. He woke me up at 3:30 this morning for food (usually this time to 4am). I gave him ~3oz. LC 9lives wet. When I woke at 5:30, he so wanted to eat. I tried getting him to settle down, thinking this is perfect, he had a bite at 3:30 - that makes 2 hrs. But there was just no way. So he had been eating for about 10-12 minutes before I actually got the blood drop. Is this fast enough to not see too much food spike? There really is no way to get the sample short of holding him down (which would elevate his BG from stress anyway right?).
Now for daily journal type stuff, I am going to use AMPS and PMPS posts for other observations, so if you don't want to hear about the quality of his poo, stop reading now. I used to keep a written journal after his DX, but I need to keep things in one place, perhaps at the end of each week, I'll print out and paste into the journal so when I see the vet or talk on the phone, I have it all in front of me. . .
He has started pooing in piles again much like when free feeding on DM dry. And the color is lighter. I don't know if this is from high BG, the change in food again to higher fat content FF, 9lives and Evo95% from the DM wet, or if it is because he is eating soooo much and his body doesn't fully process it. They are lightly formed piles, not pudding not well formed tootsie rolls. He has taken to drinking water from the tub again (he can finally get in and out more easily). He is peeing a lot, not as much as when on DM dry. Also, while he still has some trouble jumping, he can get himself onto the dinning table from the chair to look for his bowl of food (I have a towel down for when he eats while I test and inject).
He still does not play and spends most of his time in the kitchen waiting to be fed again. He had a lot of food last night probably 13oz or so just with dinner/snacks for the night.
Happy Friday!
Tony and Buddy
