Patty & Champ
Member Since 2011
Yesterday
What an eventful day yesterday! A little too eventful! I'm happy to say that I've been doing this long enough that when I saw the 33 yesterday, my heart didn't even race a little bit (much less the full blown anxiety early on in the game). However, from the way Champ reacted to the 13% yesterday (numbers not increasing much) versus how he usually reacted to it (brought him up a bit and let him surf) I realized I had to reduce him again. I was feeding him heaping spoonfuls of 18% and even this only raised his numbers a few at a time. I wanted to wait until this morning to make my decision as to when to reduce. If he bounced I'd keep him at 3.5 (the 3.5 was a reduction from a fat 3.5 at the evening cycle). If he had a number in the 200's, I'd go with a fat 3.25 (skinny 3.5). I really figured I'd see a bounce this morning, and there it was, so I shot the 3.5. If he continues to go down in this cycle until his evening shot time (instead of showing a curve), I'll reduce his evening dose to a fat 3.25. I just can't bring myself to reduce a whole 0.25u because of his failed reductions in the past. I'd rather have to reduce often by a little than reduce once by a larger amount and then have to increase it back up.
I didn't go to bed until 3 a.m. this morning, waiting for Champ's numbers to come up a bit, and then had to get up at 6:30 for his test/feed/shoot, but I went right back to bed, got up at 8:30 to give him more food, back to bed, only to get up at 11:30 to start my day. I'm still tired!! Now to the grocery store and then, hopefully, start on all the work I wanted to do around the house this weekend.
What an eventful day yesterday! A little too eventful! I'm happy to say that I've been doing this long enough that when I saw the 33 yesterday, my heart didn't even race a little bit (much less the full blown anxiety early on in the game). However, from the way Champ reacted to the 13% yesterday (numbers not increasing much) versus how he usually reacted to it (brought him up a bit and let him surf) I realized I had to reduce him again. I was feeding him heaping spoonfuls of 18% and even this only raised his numbers a few at a time. I wanted to wait until this morning to make my decision as to when to reduce. If he bounced I'd keep him at 3.5 (the 3.5 was a reduction from a fat 3.5 at the evening cycle). If he had a number in the 200's, I'd go with a fat 3.25 (skinny 3.5). I really figured I'd see a bounce this morning, and there it was, so I shot the 3.5. If he continues to go down in this cycle until his evening shot time (instead of showing a curve), I'll reduce his evening dose to a fat 3.25. I just can't bring myself to reduce a whole 0.25u because of his failed reductions in the past. I'd rather have to reduce often by a little than reduce once by a larger amount and then have to increase it back up.
I didn't go to bed until 3 a.m. this morning, waiting for Champ's numbers to come up a bit, and then had to get up at 6:30 for his test/feed/shoot, but I went right back to bed, got up at 8:30 to give him more food, back to bed, only to get up at 11:30 to start my day. I'm still tired!! Now to the grocery store and then, hopefully, start on all the work I wanted to do around the house this weekend.
