6 Aug Tucker AMPS: 18.1 (326!)

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Wow....what is this nonsense?! Tucker was starving this morning, but seemed happy and tuned in.
 
I just did a +6 on Tucker and was unhappy to see his BG rose even higher. (360) I rang my husband and he said he was worried that the shot had not gone in this morning. Apparently, just as he injected a kookaburra went off loudly anddd a possum ran across the verandah.... Either of which would have made Tucky bolt but in combination he says he had the needle sticking in Tucker as he took off like a rocket. He says he thinks he had pushed the button on the shot just at that moment but he is not sure. When he looked at the needle afterwards it was completely bent sideways. I don't know what this means or how big of a setback it is going to mean? Tucker is very very hungry and sleepy too. I did just get a urine test from him and it came up in the darkest colours for the glucose but perfectly normal in the ketones.
 
Now this indeed is an Australian story. I think you are bragging! LOL
- a kookaburra went off loudly and a possum ran across the verandah

Maybe those critters were in cahoots. It sounds like a missed dose to me. It happens, and it's too bad. A minor setback. In Leo's three years as a diabetic, we have had a few of those. But none with a bent needle.

As you saw from Leo's 3 year anniversary writeup - Diabetes is quite an adventure over the months/years.
 
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We call those a "fur shot". The insulin gets squirted onto the fur. It does leave a distinctive odor.
 
JeffJ said:
Now this indeed is an Australian story. I think you are bragging! LOL
- a kookaburra went off loudly and a possum ran across the verandah

Maybe those critters were in cahoots. It sounds like a missed dose to me. It happens, and it's too bad. A minor setback. In Leo's three years as a diabetic, we have had a few of those. But none with a bent needle.

As you saw from Leo's 3 year anniversary writeup - Diabetes is quite an adventure over the months/years.
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JeffJ said:
Now this indeed is an Australian story. I think you are bragging! LOL
- a kookaburra went off loudly and a possum ran across the verandah

Maybe those critters were in cahoots. It sounds like a missed dose to me. It happens, and it's too bad. A minor setback. In Leo's three years as a diabetic, we have had a few of those. But none with a bent needle.

As you saw from Leo's 3 year anniversary writeup - Diabetes is quite an adventure over the months/years.
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JeffJ said:
Forgot to add
We call those a "fur shot". The insulin gets squirted onto the fur. It does leave a distinctive odor.
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I think that may have happened, he does have a mediciney odour to his fur...dagnabbit.
 
The Kookaburra and the possum deserve a mention in Tucker's comment section of his spreadsheet. That is indeed the most novel furshot I have ever heard of. Tucker keeps surprising us.

So it was a small lesson too. If I am ever unsure of the shot, I feel Leo's fur near the area with my finger. Then I smell it. The insulin smell is so distinctive. If he has a furshot, I clean it with a damp paper towel. It probably tastes nasty.
 
Tucker has had 10 doses of 3.0 and his vet thinks we should increase to 3.25 tonight. His PMPS was 20.1 (362).
 
+4 was 15.0 (270) so he has come down a bit. He ate all of his dinner and is giving our local kookaburra the side eye....midnight snack?
 
That kookaburra better watch it. Sugar cats will pretty much eat anything.

I hope Tucker got a midnight snack to tide him over.
 
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