11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+2 274;+3 252;+4 199;~5 169;+7 235 ATrk

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Anne & Zener GA

Anne & Zener GA

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Yesterday
11/21/11 Zener Alpha Trak
AMPS 351, 9th cycle @s1.0u, 1.35oz 8%
+1 355, 1.0oz 8%
+2 305, 0.5oz 17%
+3 314, 0.5oz 11%
+6 428, 0.6oz 8%
+11 4PP with 3mg Zobaline & 2.5mg Pepcid ac, negative ketones
PMPS 425, 10th cycle @s1.0u, 1.4oz 8%
+1 447, 1.0oz 8%
+2 410, 0.8oz 8%
+3 336, 0.45oz 17%
+4.5 396, 0.60z 8%

Today
11/22/11 Zener Alpha Trak
AMPS 296, 11th cycle @s1.0u, 1.65oz 8%

Good morning, LL! Thinking of Jill and DH today and sending healing energy for a successful surgery. Also thinking of Charlie (he's making good progress!), Tawny (also making progress!), Morgaine, Moonie, Simon, Comet, and others.

It's nice to see this yellow start to the day. Zener is doing fine this morning. He's BTB with Anne (still asleep) after eating a big breakfast. His appetite has picked up to where he's now eating about 8 oz every day. We still hold our breath until he starts eating. :lol: :lol: Our strategy has been to give him 17% carbs when he has a drop of more than 50 pts/ht. Looking at the last two big drops, I am thinking that is too much carbs since he stayed flat yesterday morning and went up a lot last night. We might go for 11% next time and see if we can slow the drop (and not stop or reverse it). It's all just an opportunity to gather data. :smile:
Liz
 
Re: 11/22 Zener AMPS 296 A Trak

Hi guys .. oh my, look at those numbers yesterday .. glad they are a thing of the past and we are looking at sunny yellow this morning! Hope the food research goes well for you .. it's all trial and error isn't it? Have a great day!
 
Re: 11/22 Zener AMPS 296 A Trak

Today
11/22/11 Zener Alpha Trak
AMPS 296, 11th cycle @s1.0u, 1.65oz 8%
+1.5 324, 0.85oz 8%
+2.5 255, 0.5oz 11%

Hi Devon and Linda, yes, it's a new day and new data. :lol: :lol:

Zener is reading his condo again! He thought, "Oh, you want to see a big drop. Here it is!". That rascal. So we gave him the 11% and will re-test in 30 mins to see what's what. Meanwhile, he's napping on the heating pad in the front window. Tillie has moved from the heating pad in the office to the cozy pillow in the living room. It's a rough life but someone has to lead it.
Liz
 
Re: 11/22 Zener AMPS 296 A Trak

Hi Liz, I see the big drop there just as Zener got done reading his condo. :lol: You and Anne do such a good job with managing his drops with the percent carbs and then more data for Zener. Yes, such a nice life there for Tillie. Is she looking for some sun, too? Have a nice day.
 
Re: 11/22 Zener AMPS 296;+1.5 324;+2.5 255;+3 227 A Trak

Today
11/22/11 Zener Alpha Trak
AMPS 296, 11th cycle @s1.0u, 1.65oz 8%
+1.5 324, 0.85oz 8%
+2.5 255, 0.5oz 11%
+3 227, 0.5oz 14%

@Ann: Thanks for your vote of confidence! It seems rather random to us sometimes. Good thing we like challenges. :lol: :lol: Tillie is not in the sun because we have a big snuggly pillow that has become a favorite sleeping spot. Hmm, I wonder what she would think about it if I moved that pillow to the sun?

He's still dropping so we upped the carbs to 14%. So we'll see what happens with that.
Liz
 
Re: 11/22 Zener AMPS 296;+1.5 324;+2.5 255;+3 227;+4 224 A T

Looks like Zener is having a fabulous day so far! Way to go with managing the curve with fuds. Awesome news that he's been eating much better too, maybe it has something to do with the picnics outside? :lol:
 
Re: 11/22 Zener AMPS 296;+1.5 324;+2.5 255;+3 227;+4 224 A T

Nice control of the drop there. Just don't let him catch on that he only gets the good fuds if he drop like a rock.
 
Re: 11/22 Zener AMPS 296;+1.5 324;+2.5 255;+3 227;+6 204 AT

I have said many times they read our posts!!! pc_work pc_work pc_work party_cat
But look how great he did today!!! Great numbers :-D :-D
Good that you fed & managed with food---You are doing GREAT!!!!!!!
Hugs & lub from us!!
 
Re: 11/22 Zener AMPS 296;+1.5 324;+2.5 255;+3 227;+6 204 AT

Zener really must be reading his condo today. What nice yellow and yellow/blue numbers! Great job, you two.
 
Re: 11/22 Zener AMPS 296;+1.5 324;+2.5 255;+3 227;+6 204 AT

Nice recovery for Zener today!! Think blue and green big guy! Tarragon is having a day almost exactly like Zener's yesterday. It's nice to see Z dip his paws into the blue today and gives me hope.

Hope you are both having a wonderful week and are all ready for Thanksgiving!
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311 ATrak

Anne taking over for Liz, who has done the lion's share of Zener's care today. :YMHUG:

Today
11/22/11 Zener Alpha Trak
AMPS 296, 11th cycle @s1.0u, 1.65oz 8%
+1.5 324, 0.85oz 8%
+2.5 255, 0.5oz 11%
+3 227, 0.5oz 14%
+4 224, 0.5oz 8%
+6 205, 0.8oz 8%
+11 5PP with 3mg Zobaline and 2.5mg Pepcid ac
PMPS 311, 12th cycle @s1.0u, 0.8oz 8%

Zener has had a much better cycle, so we are hoping this is the bounce on its last legs! Liz did a great job with the carbs today and managed to slow things with 14% instead of 17% and then he surfed in nicer numbers. :-D

He has eaten like a lumberjack today. This afternoon he decided the package of pill pockets was no good and he refused to even sniff them. So, I opened a new bag and he gobbled them down. We are so relieved not to have to give him pills down the gullet! :razz:

@Tracy - Zener loves to eat outside on his picnic table. He will start eating inside, then run to the back door, go out and sit on his mat at his table and look back at us like "where's the food"? Liz is going to take a picture and post so you can all see Zener's "picnic table". :cool:

@Ann - shhhhh, don't tell Zener good fuds only with big drops. I hope he doesn't read this. :lol:

@Roni - thanks for your kinds words. We don't feel quite so confident yet, but we are improving! :thumbup

@Georgia - I'm not sure if Zener reads his posts, or if one of his LL buddies sends him a text message! :lol:

@Melissa - Zener likes to follow in Tarragon's paddy paws! Let's hope remedial liver training school is not in their plans for the holiday weekend! :o

One more day of school, then a long lovely weekend. We have an out-of-town guest for five days, so it will be busy around here.
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311 ATrak

I hope your good day carries in to a lovely night. I CAN'T WAIT to see a picture of Zener's picnic table! Jetta's jealous already.
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+1 342 ATrak

Looks like numbers are up a bit @+1. We have paws crossed it is a food spike and not another one of those! flip_cat
Today
11/22/11 Zener Alpha Trak
AMPS 296, 11th cycle @s1.0u, 1.65oz 8%
+1.5 324, 0.85oz 8%
+2.5 255, 0.5oz 11%
+3 227, 0.5oz 14%
+4 224, 0.5oz 8%
+6 205, 0.8oz 8%
+11 5PP with 3mg Zobaline and 2.5mg Pepcid ac
PMPS 311, 12th cycle @s1.0u, 0.8oz 8%
+1 342, 0.6oz 8%

@Jaq - Liz got a picture of Zener eating at his picnic table tonight and will post it a bit later.
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+1 342;+2 274 ATrak

And down we go, where we stop...nobody knows! :dizcat

PMPS 311, 12th cycle @s1.0u, 1.55oz 8% (edited to add a bit more he ate after his shot)
+1 342, 0.6oz 8%
+2 274, 0.8oz 14%

Just about the same magnitude of drop in his morning cycle, just a bit higher PMPS. So, we pulled out the 14% which seemed successful this morning to slow the drop and get the boy surfing. We have paws crossed to see some more blues and flatness tonight. We are still thinking of a dosecrease in the next few cycles unless we get some action jackson. Patience pants in place, will see what the numbers. :roll:

Zener loves his HC turkey - nom, nom, nom! :-D
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+1 342;+2 274 ATrak

Uh oh, you went and did it now, you said dosecrease....watch out! :lol: You are doing great with Zener...nice curve management!
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+1 342;+2 274 ATrak

Thank you Laurie!
We're not sure if Zener is reading his condo or one of his LL buddies sends him a text message. :lol: Just in case, maybe I should write it again? Possible dosecrease in the near future big boy!
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+1 342;+2 274 ATrak

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Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+1 342;+2 274 ATrak

Zener, dude....Gracie here. It's my levemir...it let me do dat nice blue!!! ;-) You should try it...no more bouncy like dat.
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+1 342;+2 274;+3 252 ATrak

Gosh thanks Celi- that is one darn cute lumberjacklet! :razz:

@ Marje - I will pass along Gracie wisdom to Mr Z. The lemevir is sure doing the trick for her! :-D

We are about at our 6 month mark on Lantus. We're hoping by having a new experimental strategy of feeding the drops early we can flatten him out and stop some of his bouncing. We just didn't have the right strategy in our heads. Thinking we WANTED to get reductions, we didn't intervene with HC until he was getting down to a BG of 100. And if he dropped to below 80, we would reduce. As he got below 1u, he was not holding the reductions.

We were probably contributing to all the bounces by not intervening when he had early big drops. Laurie (of Mr Tinkles) and Sienne pointed out to us that Zener was bouncing off drops of 50 points or so in an hour, regardless of the numbers (or colors). We are experimenting with testing @+1, +2 and +3, and using 17% and 14% if a big drop in the early part of his cycle to see how that works, and it does look more promising so far.

If we bomb out, it's nice to know there is another option - Lemivir! :thumbup

PMPS 311, 12th cycle @s1.0u, 1.55oz 8% (edited to add a bit more he ate after his shot)
+1 342, 0.6oz 8%
+2 274, 0.8oz 14%
+3 252, 0.75oz 8%

Now that the drop looks more reasonable, we're going back to the 8% to see if things will go down at a reasonable rate and maybe another surf like in Zener's AM cycle - paws crossed!
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+1 342;+2 274;+3 252;+4 199 ATrak

Well, well - back to blue! A little bigger drop than we hoped for at +4, so guess the 8% wasn't the best choice. :shock: It is a bit like playing roulette! :lol:

PMPS 311, 12th cycle @s1.0u, 1.55oz 8% (edited to add a bit more he ate after his shot)
+1 342, 0.6oz 8%
+2 274, 0.8oz 14%
+3 252, 0.75oz 8%
+4 199, 0.35oz 14%

Back up to a little bit of 14% and we'll see if we can stave off another bounce! :roll:
This is the most food (almost 5oz) that Zener has eaten in one cycle since he transitioned to wet food! :-D
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+1 342;+2 274;+3 252;+4 199 ATrak

i think someone's sneaking text messages to zener . . . and now he knows what's coming!! he'll probably get with the program now!

good to know that the levemir is an option of zener doesn't settle down on the lantus.
 
Re: 11/22 Zener PMPS 311;+2 274;+3 252;+4 199;+5.5 169 ATrak

Haha Julie - you must be right, he is giving us some lovely blues! :-D I am certain Zener is getting a text message from someone, can punkin do that? We know Zener gets online and goes shopping! :lol:

PMPS 311, 12th cycle @s1.0u, 1.55oz 8% (edited to add a bit more he ate after his shot)
+1 342, 0.6oz 8%
+2 274, 0.8oz 14%
+3 252, 0.75oz 8%
+4 199, 0.35oz 14%
+5.5 169, 1.05oz ~12%

Good grief, the big guy has eaten 6 ounces this cycle! That's 2 of his 3oz cans, we are ecstatic! Hope the trend continues, would love to see his weight stop dropping! Last week was the first time in months his weight stayed stable - 12lbs. He was around 15 when diagnosed, so losing a little wasn't a bad thing.

Still grading tests, so may get a before bed check. Just a little worried the drop between +3 and +4 could send him back to the trampoline. :roll:
 
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