Allie & Gen
Member Since 2025
Last post (Saturday)
Good morning, friends! I hope your week is off to a calm, smooth start, with safe surfs for all your kitties.
Sorry for my absence yesterday. I spent a lot of Saturday on a nature walk/bird photography outing, and I'm clearly a little out of shape after being cooped up so much this winter. I was wiped out. Gen and I had a nice chill, cuddly day together with me getting some chores done off and on.
I really appreciate everyone's input about his dose. I weighed it carefully, but ultimately did decide to increase Saturday night - while AM cycles are sometimes better for increases, I wanted to take advantage of as much weekend time as I had left. That and it just seemed right to me, based on my overall sense of his cycles, the dramatic and almost instandtaneous change I saw with the start of the budesonide, etc. I was ready to deal with it if he dropped too low. In fact, he didn't - it worked out. He hasn't seen another green yet, but his cycles have been a bit lower and flatter. We'll see how things progress.
I am a bit worried today because I realized over the weekend that my Libre prescription, which I thought had one more refill on it, did not. (I know, I need to ask for unlimited refills. I hadn't pushed it before because there was a lot going on.) My vet's office is closed on weekends, so I called this morning first thing, only to hear that my vet is off today and they're not sure they can send in a new prescription (the person I spoke to doesn't have that authority, but she was going to check with the office manager/tech). I'm not too worried about today, but a bit more about the night cycle and tomorrow's AM cycle when I will have to be in the office. So I've also reached out to the internal med unit at the animal hospital, since Gen's their patient too. Really hoping they can get a prescription in for him today.
ETA: realized I hadn't included a salient point - Gen's current Libre sensor has just ended (in the last hour).
Good morning, friends! I hope your week is off to a calm, smooth start, with safe surfs for all your kitties.
Sorry for my absence yesterday. I spent a lot of Saturday on a nature walk/bird photography outing, and I'm clearly a little out of shape after being cooped up so much this winter. I was wiped out. Gen and I had a nice chill, cuddly day together with me getting some chores done off and on.
I really appreciate everyone's input about his dose. I weighed it carefully, but ultimately did decide to increase Saturday night - while AM cycles are sometimes better for increases, I wanted to take advantage of as much weekend time as I had left. That and it just seemed right to me, based on my overall sense of his cycles, the dramatic and almost instandtaneous change I saw with the start of the budesonide, etc. I was ready to deal with it if he dropped too low. In fact, he didn't - it worked out. He hasn't seen another green yet, but his cycles have been a bit lower and flatter. We'll see how things progress.
I am a bit worried today because I realized over the weekend that my Libre prescription, which I thought had one more refill on it, did not. (I know, I need to ask for unlimited refills. I hadn't pushed it before because there was a lot going on.) My vet's office is closed on weekends, so I called this morning first thing, only to hear that my vet is off today and they're not sure they can send in a new prescription (the person I spoke to doesn't have that authority, but she was going to check with the office manager/tech). I'm not too worried about today, but a bit more about the night cycle and tomorrow's AM cycle when I will have to be in the office. So I've also reached out to the internal med unit at the animal hospital, since Gen's their patient too. Really hoping they can get a prescription in for him today.
ETA: realized I hadn't included a salient point - Gen's current Libre sensor has just ended (in the last hour).
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The vet would be able to get you a prescription if their pharmacy doesn't have any.
Maybe he needs to sit on a 
for a little bit.
I also love the pictures you took
