Im doing TR as much as possible. I work 5 times a week and then Im away for 10.5 hours and cant come home during the the day ( of course I can make some exceptions, but not every day or even once a week). I arrive home a little bit after 9 pm and immediately measure BG and give a shot, so in the morning I can get +1 h numbers. And going to bed at 4 am every night to wait for the nadir is also not an option. Ants has his insulin depot, I have my depot of exhaustion already
Usually I stay up with him until 3 am. But if he goes to the kitchen to eat, then I dont always get up to take the blood. It’s like Im awake, but paralysed.
The excel sheet would be so much greener If I took more measurements during nights.
But beside TR I also try to follow my gut. Because if the number is very low and new to me (It has only been a month and two days, but with glycometer less than a month and Im still learning) I tend to hesitate a little bit. Of course cats pick their lowest numbers when we cant watch . Following also my gut, because no protocol or method will help me turn back time if something happens. I mean the vet told me to shoot blindly 3 units twice a day and come back in a week. I felt it was wrong. My gut told me to go to pharmacy and buy a glycometer (the first one was the wrong one- wanted too much blood plus did not suck the blood from the tip, had to drop it onto the center of the strip etc). So I came home and watched every youtube video of taking blood, shaved the ears and started to practice. And meanwhile I decided to give 1 unit. Thought that 1 is better than nothing. But dosing more than that without the knowledge of his reaction felt crazy. And looking at his SS my gut wasny lying.
Luckily for me I found this forum.
The package of Hill’s MD is running empty soon. At first I gave him 50% of it. After a week (or 10 days) I cut it to 25%. Now I also give him 25% (20 grams in 24 hrs instead of his daily need of 80). And the good news is that he does not always eat it up. Sometimes he leaves half of it untouched and prefers his many choices of wet food and raw (everything under 10% carbs). His favourite raw is chichen breast. And he also very much likes boiled ox heart. It is something that I have never seen sold in Tallinn. So my family (from an island of Estonia) has brought it so far.
I will call one of the vets on Thursday- perhaps they can order me the syringes I need. They are the first vets Ants and I know. They castrated him years ago and helped him with struvitis. And even after I moved to another place, I have always bought food from there. They are really nice people (a man and a woman). But since they dont have a lab I had to go another place (where Ants was diagnosed). But the vet I knoe for almost ten years told me that I have more knowledge of feline diabetes than she does and she looked at my SS and was impressed. She told me that in 20 years she has never seen anything like that. That a lot of people with that diagnosis put their furballs to sleep. Im not surprised. After all our country-neighbour is Russia here are a loooooot of Russians in Estonia (we have a whole history with them). And well- they are special. They can be as sweet as honey, but if anything goes to s**t, be prepare to fight for your life
