12/14/ Chanel AMPS 355 PMPS 268

[Laura & Chanel]

http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/12-13-chanel-amps-348-pmps-369.222884/

Tomorrow, we do a BG curve, yay . She looks a little tired this morning, or maybe just bored . She tries to find treats or remnants of the old food on the carpet or maybe she is quality control and telling me that today is vacuum day ...may be both. She is definitely missing the old dry food but I keep myself tough as hard as I can...it is for her benefit
A wonderful Saturday to all of you and your little suga' babies

 

[Bellasmom]

Yeah it’s hard when they have had dry most of their life, I went through the same thing, but hang in there your doing a great job
Have a great day Laura and Bella also tries to find things on the flood, maybe he’s telling me also to vacuum lol

 

[Laura & Chanel]

Yeah it’s hard when they have had dry most of their life, I went through the same thing, but hang in there your doing a great job
Have a great day Laura and Bella also tries to find things on the flood, maybe he’s telling me also to vacuum lol

Your boy must miss the dry food. Chanel ate wet food for the past two years, the dry food was around just in case she would go hungry during day. The moment you change something, even small, she gets upset and depressed. I assume she plays damsel in distress and to be honest it worked like a charm before. Now...seeing her in the pink values, not so much. She still has dry food available, only this is LC and she is not pleased. It is heartbreaking to see her going like a little vacuum cleaner onto every inch of the carpet, but I try to avoid looking in those sad blue eyes. As for vacuuming, I am still waiting for the entire building to wake up, no way I will start at 7.30 am

 

[Sonia & Leo]

Poor Chanel having to eat low carb dry, it's probably like us eating cake made without sugar! Poor baby, I hope she starts enjoying her FF more, soon!
Have a great day Laura!

 

[carfurby (GA)]

Hi. I haven't stopped by before. Chanel is beautiful. I hope she slides down today. Maybe try some freeze-dried treats if she seems really hungry. She's probably just being a cat though. They're so hard to resist when they beg.

 

[Laura & Chanel]

Poor Chanel having to eat low carb dry, it's probably like us eating cake made without sugar! Poor baby, I hope she starts enjoying her FF more, soon!
Have a great day Laura!

She loves FF, nowadays the tuna version too but she LOOOOVES the crunch (don't we all...). Sonia, you are right and that is why this is the last Christmas with sugar and high carbs for us as well. We want to embark on the same boat as our sugar baby and get everything bad out of our diets. It will be painful and probably more than one pair of sad eyes around here for a while. Whenever she gets close to me and rubs against my ankles I keep saying: I am doing the right thing, I am doing the right thing. Still so freaking hard and feeling the guilt. But she is definitely upset, she does not jump in bed nowadays, that was her 'luxury cuddly' treatment, now the honeymoon is over

 

[Laura & Chanel]

Hi. I haven't stopped by before. Chanel is beautiful. I hope she slides down today. Maybe try some freeze-dried treats if she seems really hungry. She's probably just being a cat though. They're so hard to resist when they beg.

oh, thank you so much for the compliment. I will make sure to pass it on to Chanel so she will know her 'beautification' efforts are not in vain. Your little furbaby looks so beautiful and super fluffy Carla. You have some brushing to do, right? I brush Chanel twice a day, it is her reward for the ear prick, insulin shot and the famotidine down her throat. She does not like anything freeze-dried. I would like to try some raw food at some point and I got a suggestion this week about some supplements you just need to add to ground meat. It would be nice of Chanel to accept it and forget about the dry food but since letting go of bad is usually a long process, bean or feline, we just hang in there.
Also, I am contemplating brushing her teeth and let me tell you, I tried and she just started chew on my fingers (maybe she likes raw meat, just not chicken or beef...maybe she is going for beanny meat...LOL).
I have some questions, yeah I am full of questions these days. How do you decide on changing the insulin, how do you know the insulin does simply not work. Also, I see Furbaby got OTJ and now she is sugary again. Did she eat the same food since OTJ? Is there any reason for them to relapse (age may be an issue but are there others?). Chanel was on wet food and dry food was there just for decor and nibbling, still she got diabetes and one vet told me it was triggered most probably by her long suffering due to dental infection. Hence, the dental brushing has to be enforced, twice a day. If at some point I do not post anymore, most likely Chanel ate my fingers

 

[carfurby (GA)]

I have some questions, yeah I am full of questions these days. How do you decide on changing the insulin, how do you know the insulin does simply not work. Also, I see Furbaby got OTJ and now she is sugary again. Did she eat the same food since OTJ? Is there any reason for them to relapse (age may be an issue but are there others?).

Furball has a polyp in one ear and it sometimes causes her problems. I think the polyp ear knocked her out of remission and is keeping her from getting back there. Yes she ate the same food while she was in remission. Dental issues and infection of any kind can knock a cat out of remission. As far as the dose goes, you just have to keep following the dosing guidelines and you will eventually see results. It is different with each cat in how long it takes to see results. If you constantly saw high numbers, that may mean the insulin is not working. You will eventually learn to see patterns.

 

[Laura & Chanel]

Furball has a polyp in one ear and it sometimes causes her problems. I think the polyp ear knocked her out of remission and is keeping her from getting back there. Yes she ate the same food while she was in remission. Dental issues and infection of any kind can knock a cat out of remission. As far as the dose goes, you just have to keep following the dosing guidelines and you will eventually see results. It is different with each cat in how long it takes to see results. If you constantly saw high numbers, that may mean the insulin is not working. You will eventually learn to see patterns.

Oh, I see. Chanel never had a health problem until this year and she is 13-year old. She started with ear infections, then UTI, then the dental infection and diabetes diagnosed during dental pre-op. Everything happen in the past 6 months, so not easy for my little beautiful one

 

[Laura & Chanel]

Tomorrow, BG curve day