Re: 10/28 PurrFace +4.25/97 +4.75/98 +5.25/81 +5.75/70 +6.75
Good for Dear Wife -- she doesn't want you to get low blood sugar either!
I think you can relax now. PurrFace is probably surfing. I'd like to see another test to be sure, but I am fairly certain you will see a 70 or above at your next test. FYI, for the future, it would not be terribly important if you were having a lazy Sunday at home, but if you were trying to get out the door to be somewhere you would want to see the next number ABOVE 80 or 85, maybe even higher.
Now that the issue is (mostly) resolved, you should know that a BG of 40 to 50 is nowhere near hypo for most cats, and even a BG in the 30s isn't a reason to be too scared. What is scary is to see a 39 and then see a number below that for the next test and even lower for the next. If you can stay at 40 or above that is great, and you don't want the cat in the 30s because you don't know how low he might go, but merely being in the 30s does NOT mean that -- for most cats --you are seconds away from disaster. I asked about your emergency plan because you want to have someone to drive while you test and feed, and you want to know where you are going. If you had to call someone to come home to you, the time to do it would have been after you saw the next number below 39. Tossing a map to the nearest emergency room in your hypo kit might not be a bad idea given that you are 30 minutes away.
The Low Number Procedure is a way of preventing hypo. You always want to step in and feed the cat teaspoons of HC when you see a number below 50 anytime before nadir (or if you don't know when nadir will be), but, of course, it's even more important if it is early in the cycle. The same goes for being
below 50 after nadir UNLESS you really know your cat and you feel very comfortable that the BG is going to be going up. It never hurts to offer food regardless
for most cats.
Also, feel free to post when this happens again. You get more than one of these little episode with support here -- as many as you like. Don't feel that because someone walked you through it the first time you should know it and be able to do it by yourself. It's hard not to panic and be nervous and make mistakes. Just having someone here with you makes it more likely you will do fine on your own with no mistakes. Someday, you won't need the support, but until you feel that you don't, please post for support!
(By the way, I have found that posting the recap in a new post when you get a new number is a more reliable way to make sure the people who are following your saga see it.)
You both did a great job and stayed calm, but I know on the inside it had to be nerve wracking.
