Ah, the joys of steroid induced diabetes

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Michele and Peeps

Michele and Peeps

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9/13
Amps: 387 - 1u
Pmps: 407 - 1.5u

9/14
Amps: 408 - 1.5u
Pmps: 365 - 1.5u

9/15
Had to get on the road early, so went to give her shot 1.75 hours early....
Amps: 65 - 0.0u
Fed her some jelly for support and headed out the door. On my way home from my morning event, I picked up her steroids.
Pre-steroids: +5: 194

Why couldn't I stay home with her? For a week, been planning this outing; many people were counting on me; and before I left, Peeps responded to her brush normally so I figured she would be fine with some jelly and a nap.

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As you can tell by my overly excited expression, it's been just one of them days. (The bird is fine: http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...5429270594_580515593_20726446_487510574_n.jpg)
 
Wow. That 65 was like at +10.25 from PMPS? Definite curveball.
I'm wondering "what happened next"...

was that bird a swan?

Carl
 
Peeps threw me a 406 near her shot time. I decided to skip shooting last night as 1. I hadn't seen her eat anything and 2. I just wanted to go to bed and not have to worry about her during the night.

Not going to make any decisions this morning until I see her numbers, but the steroids usually show outward symptoms within 24 hours - and last night she was playing, which made me suspect a lower number, but of course she gave me that 406. I also gave her some parmesean cheese as she was hanging around when the other two kitties get their treats.

Of course, I will probably be wrong, but I do believe she ate last night - so I am going to imagine her somewhere in the upper 400's or lower 500's. That would be the "norm" for her day after steroids shot. I will have to update about her later.

After I know her am number, I am sure I will feel better and relieved. I am sure it will be a shootable number, but again, I'm not going to make any predictions that I cannot let go of when she gives me something else :roll:


And, yes - that was a trumpeter swan. 3 hours in the water yesterday chasing swans, over 40 minutes just to get that big bad bird.
 
One of my favorite books for my children was about a trumpeter swan, which I read and read until I got a chorus of, "MOM we're too old!" can you imagine, too old! well that didn't stop me! :mrgreen:

I also give steroids to my Payne, (pills not inject) it is the only thing that keeps her somewhat even and it is a constant fight with her numbers .... but the other side of the coin is, she is still alive and very, very happy and good. I think it is a trade off.

I'm sorry but that sounds like fun (I'm sure it wasn't) chasing swans in the water .....
 
It's always fun to do stuff in the field, and this was my first experience with a -no matter what- happy ending. Prior to this banding episode, I've been on 2 swan rescues. The first one was able to be rehabed, but has to live life out in a breeding program in captivity due to a wing amputation. The second was so sickly from lead poisoning, he had to be PTS immediately.

It was also nice to experience healthy birds. They put up a battle before they're caught. The sickly birds I've helped ring in were too badly injured/sickly to put up a lasting fight.

Peeps was also interested in the banding episode. I got sniffed quite a bit upon my arrival home, not only did I smell like the swamp I was playing in, but the bird too. Peeps likes stinky things, so we're lucky we are together.
 
LOL, Bob likes stinky things too. He's really into socks and feet. Kind of creepy when you take off your shoes and socks and he wants to roll around on your feet like they're roadkill or something.
Bird rehab sounds awesome. I've got lots of experience with mammals (mostly opossums!), not so much with birds. We did get to house a couple of owls years back until we could get them to a raptor center up the coast. Last year we caught a juvenile bald eagle, but sadly he had to be PTS due to a wing deformity that made it impossible for him to ever be able to fly normally. He was hopping around in the sand dunes when we caught up to him. I did manage to get a pic before we tossed a blanket over him to capture him.
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Carl
 
It's too bad the juvenile had to be put down. Do you know if the wing deformity was not the only problem the bird had? The org I volunteer for weekly is wanting to get an eagle for their education programs. Sometimes the injured types do more for the plight of their species than healthy specimens - of the 8 birds the org houses, only 1 of them is completely healthy. The rest suffer from wing amputations, brain damage, or genetic problems that make life in the wild a deadly situation.
 
Michele,
They checked to see if anyone could use it for educational programs, but at that time, nobody in the network they deal with had any vacancies. Because of his wing deformity, he was malnourished and dehydrated. They said he would never be able to fly to hunt, or for any distance, and there wasn't anything they to do to correct the deformity. I was sad to hear it when they called us back the next day. He was an absolutely beautiful animal.
Carl
 
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