8/11 Sunshine AMPS 211 PMPS 344 :(

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matya13

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Odd - she seems to have had a fairly large drop overnight. Not sure how to explain that.

She ate about 2 oz (1 oz at a time) of Grreat Choice chicken & liver pate this morning. She needs it VERY soupy. I left her some Mariner's Medley and Stella & Chewy's for later. She completely dissed the FF chicken & liver. Strange cat!
 
How discouraging after this morning's nice, trending downward number. Could she have bounced on such a low amount of insulin? Or could it be a food spike? She ate 1.25 oz of chicken pate about an hour before testing.

She did something unexpected tonight - she went upstairs into the master bathroom and curled up on the towel that I'm using as a bathmat right now. (Not-my-cat Simon - neighbors' cat who adopted me - has been peeing on the mats. He also pees on the towels, but those are a lot easier to get clean than the mats!) She generally doesn't go upstairs. I usually feed my dry food addict cat Lucky in the master BR with the door shut, so it was quite a surprise to shut the door, put his dry food out...then find Sunny in the bathroom! I decided she could use a snuggle while Lucky ate, so we had a nice cuddle session. She even gave me a full body-flop across my hand, which she hasn't done since she left her foster room! Silly Lucky decided he'd rather keep an eye on Sunny then eat, so I finally told him he clearly wasn't very hungry and dumped the food back into the jug.

When I thought about it some more, I realized that the mat-towel is the towel I had been using. When Simon peed on the previous towel, I decided to just put down my used one after I cleaned the floor. Maybe that's why she chose it as her spot tonight?
 
hi amy
i have to make the wet food really soupy too. that's the only way Tibbs will eat it.
 
You are doing a great job with getting Sunny to eat. Thank you for trying so hard.

It is so hard to tell what is making her jump from one PS to another without the mid-cycle tests, but I also know you can't get them. It could have been the food an hour before testing. If it is your normal procedure to get home and feed, and then test her an hour later, can you test before you feed so you know where she is at that point? A +11 before feeding will give useful info.
 
I can definitely test her before feeding, Venita. Last night was an aberration because I got home late. I usually feed about 2 hrs before testing at night.
 
Mona's BG was high for about 2-3 hours after eating as a general rule, so it's very possible that all of your evening tests are artificially high, even with the feeding 2 hours ahead. You could test before feeding when you get home, or even try letting her be hungry when you get home in the evening and feed her next at test/feed/shot time and see how the numbers vary based on those methods. Having those extra numbers will give you a lot more info about exactly how she's responding to the food.
 
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