Sue and Luci
Member Since 2017
Yesterday - another sleeper for Luci - No threats, just action! Increased today.
Ok, so without much adieu - no threats, no warnings and no fooling around - increased her by .25 this morning. Worked on my calipers issues a bit and fortunately happened to have a set of Harbor Freight calipers on hand (don't even ask - but we have a house full of calipers!!)...anyway, I compared what I was doing with my original set of calipers to the other set from Harbor Freight - did some math - added an increment equal to .25 and away we went.
Let's see if Luci responds appropriately - and yes thank you@Jill & Alex (GA) for the manipulating the curve article to refresh my memory!
Fortunately for me Luci never (rarely) refuses fuds...she loves to eat!! Sometimes I 'miss' and don't catch her in time and she drops below 40 - and I feel that's my fault - because I should have been testing her more - not hourly or two hourly - but sometimes she just gets away from me - she's a bit of a drama queen and loves to dive. When she drops by more than 100 points that's usually my clue (about the only one she gives me)...and it's common for her to drop from the high 200's into a high 100 - so what do I do at that point? Start MC? Let it ride a little longer to see if it keeps up? Sometimes I call it, sometimes not. I've started her on MC food only to have her miss out on any greens at all - darn it
...then sometimes when I don't give her a little MC she plunges from a high green to a low green - darn it.
Although I feel like I 'know' my cat...she still has secrets she's keeping from me...who knows if she'll ever really be truly predictable.
But at those times, if I could better predict that she'd go from a high green to a low green (which at this point she loses her dose and gets a reduction - which at that time may not be a true 'earned reduction' but a knee-jerk response on my part for not catching her quickly enough...with all her other numbers being relative - I wish at that time I could 'average' - is she indeed trending lower and is this low green a 'one-off'? Or is it that she's got a functioning pancreas and has truly earned a reduction?
We continue to work through it ... perhaps there are others who are experiencing the same kind of thing? - I often feel like by giving her a reduction I'm only delaying the inevitable (remission)...she needs the insulin apparently to kick that little pancreas of hers into gear. In the meantime, she feels great, she looks great, firing on all cylinders (all the P's).
We're going to celebrate her birthday and 'gotcha' date soon...I think she was born around this time of year - we got her in late October at 6 weeks...our little wild cat...running up the drapes and having a high old time! More to come on that note...
Ok, so without much adieu - no threats, no warnings and no fooling around - increased her by .25 this morning. Worked on my calipers issues a bit and fortunately happened to have a set of Harbor Freight calipers on hand (don't even ask - but we have a house full of calipers!!)...anyway, I compared what I was doing with my original set of calipers to the other set from Harbor Freight - did some math - added an increment equal to .25 and away we went.
Let's see if Luci responds appropriately - and yes thank you@Jill & Alex (GA) for the manipulating the curve article to refresh my memory!
Fortunately for me Luci never (rarely) refuses fuds...she loves to eat!! Sometimes I 'miss' and don't catch her in time and she drops below 40 - and I feel that's my fault - because I should have been testing her more - not hourly or two hourly - but sometimes she just gets away from me - she's a bit of a drama queen and loves to dive. When she drops by more than 100 points that's usually my clue (about the only one she gives me)...and it's common for her to drop from the high 200's into a high 100 - so what do I do at that point? Start MC? Let it ride a little longer to see if it keeps up? Sometimes I call it, sometimes not. I've started her on MC food only to have her miss out on any greens at all - darn it...then sometimes when I don't give her a little MC she plunges from a high green to a low green - darn it. Although I feel like I 'know' my cat...she still has secrets she's keeping from me...who knows if she'll ever really be truly predictable.
But at those times, if I could better predict that she'd go from a high green to a low green (which at this point she loses her dose and gets a reduction - which at that time may not be a true 'earned reduction' but a knee-jerk response on my part for not catching her quickly enough...with all her other numbers being relative - I wish at that time I could 'average' - is she indeed trending lower and is this low green a 'one-off'? Or is it that she's got a functioning pancreas and has truly earned a reduction? We continue to work through it ... perhaps there are others who are experiencing the same kind of thing? - I often feel like by giving her a reduction I'm only delaying the inevitable (remission)...she needs the insulin apparently to kick that little pancreas of hers into gear. In the meantime, she feels great, she looks great, firing on all cylinders (all the P's).
We're going to celebrate her birthday and 'gotcha' date soon...I think she was born around this time of year - we got her in late October at 6 weeks...our little wild cat...running up the drapes and having a high old time! More to come on that note...
. I have seen the same in Titan, that 100 point drop from 200's to 100's, I do not give MC/HC at that point till he's threating lime greens but I do monitor closely. Usually he flattens out after the big fast drop. Good luck !
And it still did not register with me that I had done it backwards. DH came home and I ask him how he liked the rock I stenciled and he said, "yeah, nice but it would have been nicer if the 4 was pointing in the right direction". 
I know I have a touch...and now and then OMG I drive myself crazy! A few weeks ago during the big garage sale I was trying to match lids to bins - OMG you have no idea how I struggle with that one!
Happens to all of us now and again 
. I am looking to buy calipers which one should I buy 
Just have to eyeball it on your syringe - lock it in your steel trap minds eye - then pull the insulin out of the vial - set it down - put calipers back on syringe and hold it at eye level with calipers and where the insulin is supposed to be - flick out air bubbles - squeeze the plunger just a bit to squeeze out excess insulin - watch the drop form on the end of the needle - measure again - squeeze some more if needed - measure again - are we having fun yet? Measure again - if it's right - the lower lip of the caliper will align perfectly with that black syringe head inside the syringe cutting it right in half - not much showing above the lower lip of the caliper...Only once did I squeeze too hard and shot all the insulin right out