Autumn and Casey checking in

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MommaOfMuse

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Well the weekend went from crazy to down right insane. Father in law is going to need more care once he leaves the hospital than we first thought. They won't release him until he has home nursing care during the days as well as a life alert so I've spent the weekend trying to get everything in place so he can come home before he starts eating the nurses. To say he's not a good patient is an understatement. He's not pleasant when he feels good let alone sick. And he's already kicking and screaming about the additional staff needing to be added. But finally played hard ball with him of its either this or a nursing home.

Only way he'd agree was for me to do the early morning shift of getting him up, blood sugar checked and breakfast in him.

Autumn is still diving and bouncing like a ping pong ball. A mere .1 will drop her from the 400s to double digits in 6 hours. So waiting on a call from the vet with her blood work then starting her on the N. Dr Tami wanted me to hold off until the blood work came back to rule out any other causes for the wacky numbers.

Casey as always steady as a rock. He's settling nicely on the .75

Mel and The Fur Gang
 
Sorry to hear about your father in law; that's going to eat a chunk of time out of your day.

Hope you get something figured out for Autumn. Will they do any x-rays? I'm wondering about a tiny insulinoma, where her body reacts by pumping out glycogen to counter it.
 
So sorry about your new troubles and charge. Glad to hear from you. You've been missed. Hope you can figure out how to stabilize Autumn during all the added duties.
 
Glad to see you post, Mel, I have been thinking of you all weekend. Sorry that FIL has deemed you are "it". That sucks. Please please please, as one who has been and still is "there", set some precedents right from the start. Let him know it will not be you every single day. You deserve a life too, and besides which, if you should pick up a cold or the flu you shouldn't be near him. Then make sure you use that veto power randomly but frequently. You must take time for yourself (although I suspect you never did before, so maybe this will be something new?).

Be there for him the first 5 days or so, then let the care people take a shift. And set limits on the length of time you are willing to devote to him daily or you might find yourself there half the day.
 
Well just heard back from the vet ...blood work perfect for an 18 year old cat. So depending on her numbers she'll start on NPH either tonight or tomorrow morning.

@BJ no we haven't done xrays as of yet because they would need to sedate her and put her on her back to do them and she has back problems. So we're saving those for a last resort kinda thing.

Lol I'm great at juggling acts and its only for a couple weeks on my part until he's off the antibiotics and he gets his strength back. He has a couple that comes in and helps him with odd jobs around the house and properties. They just live a couple towns over so they can't get in as early as dad wants to be up and fed. lol After 10a.m. his charming personality becomes all theirs. :lol:

Mel and The Fur Gang
 
@Linda

Thanks hon, Oh we already have ground rules. Half the reason he loves me is because I'm just like Jon's mom. lol Of course I learned from her when Jon and I dated in High School how to handle dad. lol I was really bummed when Jon and I got back together 30years later to learn she had passed away.

But I also just went through this with my mom 7 years ago. That's actually what got me to move back to Nebraska from North Carolina...well that and Hurricane Katrina. And mom was just as bull headed as dad. At least with dad he's still pretty functional when he's in good health. Just right now this has really sapped his strength. But it probably is the beginning of the end but then again he is 95!

Mel and The Fur Gang
 
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