Eyes on Autumn Please

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MommaOfMuse

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I'm not sure what I'm looking at here but I suspect rebound...after some great control we seem to be headed in the wrong direction again..why I'm suspecting rebound is because she is jetting up so high after insulin and her nadirs are much higher than her preshots.

Frustration doesn't even begin to cover it..I'm about to the point of dropping her insulin over the weekend when I know I will be around to stalk her to the litter box and keep an eye on her for ketones and see just where she goes without anything, especially since she isn't a ketone prone kitty.

In the mornings she is great purrsonality wise, she runs to greet us purring like crazy, wants in laps for cuddles etc, but after getting her insulin she is grouchy and sullen again. She has also started running from me when it is test or shot time and this is after months and months of her beating me to the testing spot. Again I'm wondering if this is her way of telling me that the insulin is making her feel bad rather than good.

But right now my own brain is such mush due to everything else that is going on, on the home front that I'm just not sure that I'm seeing what I think I'm seeing.

So I guess the question is up, down or hold...I am running a curve on her today to see if I can see anything that I have been missing with just the spot checks.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
You might find that going back to .1u again will get better results. .3u might be just too much and keeping her high(er) and flat right now.

As Beau headed OTJ he seemed to get more sensitive to insulin and .1u to .2u too much kept him looking like he needed a dose increase, but stepping down the dose gave him better and better numbers. I found that his do not shoot number was pretty high - 150. If I shot .05u below that he could drop into the 30s. I would imagine that even more might have dropped him into the 30s once and then pushed him up into the 200s, or higher, and left him there.

You may find that Autumn is in a similar place. Obviously, no shot on the 53 the other day, but on the 225 that night, maybe .1u again would have been better.

I would be inclined to try .1u and a do not shoot number of maybe 100 first before going to zero insulin. I think the longer you can "hold there hand" the better the pancreas can handle the job.
 
Thanks Sheila

You just confirmed what I was thinking but with as crazy as life is on all other fronts here right now I wanted another set of eyes to look at her spreadsheet.

Right now trying to figure out how to set up the house to take in Jon's 21 year old daughter and get her back on track before she ends up either an arrest record a mile long or dead...oy vey! She already has racked up 4 felony charges in 4 different counties that we know of, been in and out of jail several times and had both her kids taken by child protective services and her own mother has kicked her out and has a restraining order on her for domestic violence. Love her like she is my own..but don't trust her as far as I can throw her, so trying to balance helping her out, keeping my sanity, and domestic tranquility for us and the furkids. ( I may need prozac after this one...Can Cami spare a few...lol). I think she is basically a good kid just has never been made to follow rules at all by her mom and now she is paying for the lack of parenting.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Mel, I certainly don't envy you the task of taking in your step-daughter. I remember that you will need to put yourself first at times - or you will need Prozac, or something much stronger! Will see be getting any counseling? It's going to be so hard for you and Jon to set rules and have her live by them now without an outside reinforcement like group or one on one counseling.

Good luck!
 
She is already in counseling which actually maybe half the problem as she has figured out how to work the system to get drugs. Then turns around and uses those to get high off of..One of the big new rules is all meds have to be handed over to either her father or I and we will dispense them as they are prescribed. I actually think once she gets a look at the rules we are going to be laying down that she will turn tail and run and the most that will happen is that I get a remodled guest room. I don't think she has hit rock bottom just yet. But she is starting to run out of 'friends' to free load off of, so it may only be a matter of time until she has no choice but to allow herself to be reined in.

Alisha (Jon's daughter) has never been required to work a real job, her mother is one of those women that goes from man to man to have her bills paid for and has unfortunately taught it to her daughter. Alisha now has a belief that you use people for what they can provide for you and if that fails you go on welfare and have more kids so society can pay you support for them. :roll: Which is a damn shame, she is drop dead pretty and so smart that if she would just redirect those brains for good rather than to scheme she would be unstoppable in anything she wanted to do..And Oh My God her artistic ability is off the hook. But again her mom let her drop out of High School at 16 so she has no education, no GED and no way to move up in life. I really wish we would have pushed harder to get custody of her when we first got married and she was returned to her mother (spent some time in foster care where she did great) at age 14. But back then since mom and us live in the same town and it isn't a big one we figured she would just run back to mom where there was no rules...now that route of escape is closed off I'm hoping she will accept our help and rules.

Now I'm basically going to have to dial her back to 16 and start retraining her to live in the adult world if she will ever have a pray in this world of getting her little ones back. She has two beautiful babies but like so much in her life right now out of sight out of mind. I know she loves them dearly but just has no life coping skills to make her a fit mother to them. She is still in that "Its all about me, and the world should bow to me stage"

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
That is very sad. She is lucky to have both you and Jon right now. I will keep her in my prayers.

On a funny/odd note: I have been writing a story about a woman named Elisha. So I love Alisha's name. My story is semi autobiographical and, if you are a puzzle person, you will note that Elisha and Sheila are the same letters.
 
We are fighting an ear infection right now so nope she isn't happy about me reducing too fast...but we will get there, plus her dental is coming up on Valentine's Day. cat_pet_icon But she is loving that .5u I couldn't have asked for a prettier curve today.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
Nice numbers, but sorry to hear she has an ear infection.

And that dental can't come soon enough. Will they have to wait if her ear isn't cleared up in time (it should be as that is over two weeks from now).
 
She apparently really likes the consistency in shooting.

Of course she might be getting ready for another dip a little too far?

Is there any way to "carb" it out instead of skipping?
 
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Is there any way to "carb" it out instead of skipping?
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That's the plan if she drops a little too low again is to just steer it with food. So far she is starting out today as lovely as yesterday. She is definitely a girl that likes consistancy in everything.

But the changes in her from when she got here to now is amazing. She now greets me every morning purring her little head off, weaving between my legs while I get breakfast ready and chirping to me most of the day as she follows me around when I'm cleaning. And I've finally found a toy she likes...The Almighty Laser Pointer!!! Unfortunately the drooler is completely nuts for it too so we can only play with it when he is outside because Autumn doesn't move fast enough to avoid his head long rushes after it.

For some reason she can jump to the top of my roll top desk but acts like getting on the bed is too high for her...so Jon took our bed off its frame and put the bed on the floor so she had an easier time getting on it...Last night for the first time she slept with us or rather me..lol I had Maxwell, Lady Jane Grey, Arabella and Autumn all on my side of the bed ( I had my side of the electric blanket on)...so I got about a 6 inch strip of bed to sleep on and postage stamp size piece of my pillow. :roll:

She was also helping daddy work on the kitchen sink yesterday we had a leak under it so while Jon was working on it she kept sitting on his chest talking to him to the point that I had to finally go get her so he could finish... :lol:

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn & The Fur Gang
 
I get very minute glimpses of a loving and affectionate girl from Cami, you must be thrilled to have Autumn talk to you guys and sleep on the bed (although there is no way I would put my mattress on the floor or any reason! I would never be able to get up out of it).

I have had helpful cat supervision on similar projects myself, with no one to distract them. There is nothing like having a cat jump on your back while you are bending over trying to fix something. Or my favorite if when they "help" during yoga. Have you seen the YouTube video on the woman doing a complete sun salutation with a car on her body? The cat keeps moving with her to stay "on top". Here's a link: http://youtu.be/g2rMAzWm3a8

What we won't do for our cats (some of us :roll: )
 
Sneakers liked to help me on projects, too. :lol: She was always in, on, under me or my project

Now I'm doing good to have her just supervise :sad:
 
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