Gracie's 7/30
7/31 Recap:
AMPS: 66
+2: 152
+5: 177
+9: 241
PMPS: 291 :shock:
+3: 265
+6: 191
+10: 121
Happy Fursday and so glad to be back "home" in LL. Thank you, Donna/Doogle SO MUCH for doing the alternate board last night. I'm sure any new members who found us were glad to have some place to turn but it looked like a fairly quiet night. Sending healing vines to Doogle and Jupe and any others who need them.
Gracie and Tobey were little wild kittens last night. They chased each other all over the house, tumbled, played, and then plopped down together on the small blanket chest at the bottom of our bed. They looked so adorable but still had the glimmer of :twisted: :twisted: in their little eyes. I was trying to make the bed down and put the comforter on the chest and they took off for round two. GREAT news for Gracie which I couldn't share yesterday because the board was down but her ALT came back NORMAL!!!!
It's been a while 10/2011) that we had a blood test that showed it as normal and the last test that was close to normal was 11/2012. After a low dose of clavamox for three months, we took her off and tested a month later and it was still 172. Then Dr. B put her on a different liver supplement and now it's in normal range again. However, when we took her in on Tuesday, she no longer tested for the liver supplement and her liver tested at a perfect 10. I"m just worried that without the supplement, her ALT will go back up nailbite_smile nailbite_smile She has never had any clinical symptoms of anything so just not sure why her ALT has been so difficult to control.
We're on the sixth cycle of the reduction and I sure wish I knew where that bounce came from yesterday. I have to think for her to bounce like that, that we missed a low number somewhere and the only place would have been between +10 on 7/30 (71) and +11.5 on 7/31 (66) but for the life of me, I cannot imagine that she went down to the 40s and back up again in 1.5 hours and we had given her a small snack. Ok...so it was a blip; it's over...she's back on track. We talked about giving "R" but decided not to because she has been clearing her bounces fast. It was a good decision.
We are going to buy a new meter today and I think we are going to go with the Relion Micro because I like the size of the meter as compared to the larger Relion Confirm and they both only require .3microliter of blood. We've been using the One Touch Ultra Mini since she was dx and we LOVE the OT. It is such an awesome meter. But it does require a lot of blood. Why the switch all of a sudden? She scratched her right ear (her best bleeding ear) where we normally test and it looks red and unhappy. Dr. B looked at it the other day and said to just keep doing what we're doing which is keeping it clean and keeping neosporin on it. So we've been testing more on her left ear which is harder to get a good drop of blood for the OT. I think also, as her right ear heals, it will be better to only need a small sample. We'll be testing the two against each other for a bit on us to see how they compare and we will probably do a test or two on her but we want to try and minimize pokes if we can. The problem is, as the right ear starts to get better, she scratches it again. It doesn't look horrible...in fact, Dr. B didn't notice it until I showed her but we're still very careful of her ears.
Hope you are all well. We missed you yesterday. I have a couple of appts back to back this morning so it will be later before I'll be around. Have a super day.
7/31 Recap:
AMPS: 66
+2: 152
+5: 177
+9: 241
PMPS: 291 :shock:
+3: 265
+6: 191
+10: 121
Happy Fursday and so glad to be back "home" in LL. Thank you, Donna/Doogle SO MUCH for doing the alternate board last night. I'm sure any new members who found us were glad to have some place to turn but it looked like a fairly quiet night. Sending healing vines to Doogle and Jupe and any others who need them.
Gracie and Tobey were little wild kittens last night. They chased each other all over the house, tumbled, played, and then plopped down together on the small blanket chest at the bottom of our bed. They looked so adorable but still had the glimmer of :twisted: :twisted: in their little eyes. I was trying to make the bed down and put the comforter on the chest and they took off for round two. GREAT news for Gracie which I couldn't share yesterday because the board was down but her ALT came back NORMAL!!!!
It's been a while 10/2011) that we had a blood test that showed it as normal and the last test that was close to normal was 11/2012. After a low dose of clavamox for three months, we took her off and tested a month later and it was still 172. Then Dr. B put her on a different liver supplement and now it's in normal range again. However, when we took her in on Tuesday, she no longer tested for the liver supplement and her liver tested at a perfect 10. I"m just worried that without the supplement, her ALT will go back up nailbite_smile nailbite_smile She has never had any clinical symptoms of anything so just not sure why her ALT has been so difficult to control.We're on the sixth cycle of the reduction and I sure wish I knew where that bounce came from yesterday. I have to think for her to bounce like that, that we missed a low number somewhere and the only place would have been between +10 on 7/30 (71) and +11.5 on 7/31 (66) but for the life of me, I cannot imagine that she went down to the 40s and back up again in 1.5 hours and we had given her a small snack. Ok...so it was a blip; it's over...she's back on track. We talked about giving "R" but decided not to because she has been clearing her bounces fast. It was a good decision.
We are going to buy a new meter today and I think we are going to go with the Relion Micro because I like the size of the meter as compared to the larger Relion Confirm and they both only require .3microliter of blood. We've been using the One Touch Ultra Mini since she was dx and we LOVE the OT. It is such an awesome meter. But it does require a lot of blood. Why the switch all of a sudden? She scratched her right ear (her best bleeding ear) where we normally test and it looks red and unhappy. Dr. B looked at it the other day and said to just keep doing what we're doing which is keeping it clean and keeping neosporin on it. So we've been testing more on her left ear which is harder to get a good drop of blood for the OT. I think also, as her right ear heals, it will be better to only need a small sample. We'll be testing the two against each other for a bit on us to see how they compare and we will probably do a test or two on her but we want to try and minimize pokes if we can. The problem is, as the right ear starts to get better, she scratches it again. It doesn't look horrible...in fact, Dr. B didn't notice it until I showed her but we're still very careful of her ears.
Hope you are all well. We missed you yesterday. I have a couple of appts back to back this morning so it will be later before I'll be around. Have a super day.
