Amy & Papaya (GA)
Member Since 2012
Last condo before holidays, 8/6/13
Holidays at my parents' place are over and Papaya and I are back in the city - which makes me feel oddly like a little kid facing going back to school. Where did summer go :shock:
Papaya-wise, I'm glad to be back. She was doing so well before holidays but she just bounced like crazy for most of the time at my parents. I was seeing "HI" on the meter for way too many preshot tests, arrgh. She doesn't seem stressed when we are there, and I stay on the same feeding and shooting schedule as at home, so I don't know what was going on. Papaya did hit one 40 that made the third in a row so I had to reduce from 1.5 to 1.25, but the nadirs were higher every shot so I went back to the 1.5 pretty quickly. It's hard to know what's really going on with the dose when she gets so bouncy. Hopefully things will level out again now that we're home and I will be able to give the reduction back.
We had a bit of a scary trip home yesterday as well. It is HOT here, around 90 F, so while I had the A/C on max all the way home the car was not all that cold. I thought it was comfortable, but Papaya was on the back seat on the sunny side, and she always likes to burrow under a blanket when she's in the car. She had come out a few times to look around and ask if we were there yet, but just as I got to the far edge of our city she came out from under the blanket and had her mouth open panting like a dog. Not! Good! I pulled over immediately and tried to get her to drink some water, but she wasn't interested, so I just wiped her down with it instead and tried to drip a bit in her mouth or spill it on her nose where she would lick it off. I moved her out of the sun and hurried home. She panted for another five minutes or so then switched to just breathing quickly as I've seen her do before when it's really hot, so I guess wetting her down helped cool her enough. While I unloaded the car she hung out under the step in a cool, shady spot and seemed totally fine for the rest of the evening. Phew.
And after all those HIs on the meter I was soooooo happy to see the 98 this morning! Well, back to work I go . . . I hope there are not a million messages waiting for me!
Holidays at my parents' place are over and Papaya and I are back in the city - which makes me feel oddly like a little kid facing going back to school. Where did summer go :shock:
Papaya-wise, I'm glad to be back. She was doing so well before holidays but she just bounced like crazy for most of the time at my parents. I was seeing "HI" on the meter for way too many preshot tests, arrgh. She doesn't seem stressed when we are there, and I stay on the same feeding and shooting schedule as at home, so I don't know what was going on. Papaya did hit one 40 that made the third in a row so I had to reduce from 1.5 to 1.25, but the nadirs were higher every shot so I went back to the 1.5 pretty quickly. It's hard to know what's really going on with the dose when she gets so bouncy. Hopefully things will level out again now that we're home and I will be able to give the reduction back.
We had a bit of a scary trip home yesterday as well. It is HOT here, around 90 F, so while I had the A/C on max all the way home the car was not all that cold. I thought it was comfortable, but Papaya was on the back seat on the sunny side, and she always likes to burrow under a blanket when she's in the car. She had come out a few times to look around and ask if we were there yet, but just as I got to the far edge of our city she came out from under the blanket and had her mouth open panting like a dog. Not! Good! I pulled over immediately and tried to get her to drink some water, but she wasn't interested, so I just wiped her down with it instead and tried to drip a bit in her mouth or spill it on her nose where she would lick it off. I moved her out of the sun and hurried home. She panted for another five minutes or so then switched to just breathing quickly as I've seen her do before when it's really hot, so I guess wetting her down helped cool her enough. While I unloaded the car she hung out under the step in a cool, shady spot and seemed totally fine for the rest of the evening. Phew.
And after all those HIs on the meter I was soooooo happy to see the 98 this morning! Well, back to work I go . . . I hope there are not a million messages waiting for me!
