Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA
Member Since 2009
Boy, I had high hopes for this year being better than last year - which should have been easy considering how bad it was - but so far that is not happening. Last Friday my aunt and I were headed to a play and she fell in the parking garage and hit her head. Thus began the ER visit that ended in a hospital stay and I got home at 6am. Chicago was/is in the middle of winter storms and dangerous temp warnings, so dealing with driving downtown to bring clean clothes, visit, and then pick her up and get her home yesterday were each major undertakings involving shoveling and horrible road conditions. Somehow I accomplished it all, but I am so sore today I can barely move. To top all of that off neither Beau nor Cami are sticking to the program.
Beau: Well, part of this update is to let folks know he is well into his last journey. He is not doing well and I think is beginning to enter a stage where he is in constant discomfort. I have not been able to get him to take his pain med (a powder mixed into pill pockets that I have no other way to give him) and I can't do much about it until the deep freeze is over Weds. He has been back on insulin about a month and difficult to regulate, but suddenly I am getting sub-normal numbers (65 yesterday am, and 55 today). He isn't eating well right now although he acts interested in food until I put it in front of him. So, loss of appetite, low BGs, discomfort... all end stage stuff. I am doing everything I can to make him comfortable. He gets on my lap a lot and purrs. That's about as good as it gets. I am so sad to be facing his passing. He has been such a miracle kitty, such a good boy. He has given me almost 8 years more than was expected after his HCM diagnosis 13 years ago, but I am greedy and want still more. It would be nice if he could have good enough days to make it to spring because he loves going out in the sun on the balcony, but I don't think that is in the cards.
Cami: She is doing very well. Such a different cat than a year ago. She is also suddenly giving me low numbers. Her dose had crept up to 3u, but she has also given me numbers too low to shoot the past two am PSs. Yesterday was 125, today was 75. I would have shot the 125, but even two hours later she was only 150 and I was going to be gone all day and didn't want to risk it. Of course she was in the 300s by last night so I shot 3u - and got the 75 this am.
It's weird that they both are having similar cycles. This is a "new" pen - one that was partially used, but I dropped so I set aside and used a fresh pen months ago that just ran out. Maybe the fresh pen was somehow less potent? Not anything that should logically happen and they were both responding to doses from it. Don't know. Just one more thing to deal with right now.
Trying to stay warm. It's -12 here right now.
Happy New Year everyone!
Beau: Well, part of this update is to let folks know he is well into his last journey. He is not doing well and I think is beginning to enter a stage where he is in constant discomfort. I have not been able to get him to take his pain med (a powder mixed into pill pockets that I have no other way to give him) and I can't do much about it until the deep freeze is over Weds. He has been back on insulin about a month and difficult to regulate, but suddenly I am getting sub-normal numbers (65 yesterday am, and 55 today). He isn't eating well right now although he acts interested in food until I put it in front of him. So, loss of appetite, low BGs, discomfort... all end stage stuff. I am doing everything I can to make him comfortable. He gets on my lap a lot and purrs. That's about as good as it gets. I am so sad to be facing his passing. He has been such a miracle kitty, such a good boy. He has given me almost 8 years more than was expected after his HCM diagnosis 13 years ago, but I am greedy and want still more. It would be nice if he could have good enough days to make it to spring because he loves going out in the sun on the balcony, but I don't think that is in the cards.
Cami: She is doing very well. Such a different cat than a year ago. She is also suddenly giving me low numbers. Her dose had crept up to 3u, but she has also given me numbers too low to shoot the past two am PSs. Yesterday was 125, today was 75. I would have shot the 125, but even two hours later she was only 150 and I was going to be gone all day and didn't want to risk it. Of course she was in the 300s by last night so I shot 3u - and got the 75 this am.
It's weird that they both are having similar cycles. This is a "new" pen - one that was partially used, but I dropped so I set aside and used a fresh pen months ago that just ran out. Maybe the fresh pen was somehow less potent? Not anything that should logically happen and they were both responding to doses from it. Don't know. Just one more thing to deal with right now.
Trying to stay warm. It's -12 here right now.
Happy New Year everyone!
