donnahc
Very Active Member
Hi Kids:
It’s just one thing after the next at the Dutch Ghetto and I apologize for not being here that much lately. Spring means yard work which I can handle here, but doing my Mom’s too takes me a couple weeks to get in the swing. And we’ve had some family medical crap to deal with. Plus I just got back from a biz trip to Boston. What work we have seems to have travel involved, which complicates the schedule. It’s a crazy whirlwind here. I have a splitter of a sinus headache from the pressurized cabin on the plane today, but quickly, here is our update.... bcatrun_gif
Before I left, I stopped in at my Vet’s to get another bottle of insulin since we were getting low. He always wants to look at the chart so I took him a copy, and he got on me about using U100 needles when he saw my dosing. Now I know he knew I was doing that since early last year before we even switched to him, and he’s always very complimentary about our care of Asher, but maybe he forgot, had a bad day, dunno. And this exchange was not what I needed on a more than busy day, the day before I leave for 3 days. I felt like he scolded me or something. @-)
But once I got him past that, he asked me to reduce to 2.5u for 3 full days. I don’t think he was thrilled with me doing a sliding scale either, and I am trying to work with him on this so I said I’d try. I need him to give me the insulin and he is good about usually dealing with questions by email, so I am trying to listen to what he has to say, be a good monkey, etc. o
First day on reduced dose was ok but Asher has been high since then (300s ps and 200s mid day). So I have to go back up in dose to around where we were. I sent the vet an email to this effect, so I hope he’s not bummed with me but I have to get Asher in better numbers.
So back to the dosing and rebound drawing board. I am thinking we need a day dose and a night dose going by the info we’ve collected recently. I also will try to update the spreadsheet from when I left on Friday.
Sorry again for being AWOL, life just gets beyond me some weeks. Now for some drugs and a nap to get rid of this headache. :YMSIGH:
It’s just one thing after the next at the Dutch Ghetto and I apologize for not being here that much lately. Spring means yard work which I can handle here, but doing my Mom’s too takes me a couple weeks to get in the swing. And we’ve had some family medical crap to deal with. Plus I just got back from a biz trip to Boston. What work we have seems to have travel involved, which complicates the schedule. It’s a crazy whirlwind here. I have a splitter of a sinus headache from the pressurized cabin on the plane today, but quickly, here is our update.... bcatrun_gif Before I left, I stopped in at my Vet’s to get another bottle of insulin since we were getting low. He always wants to look at the chart so I took him a copy, and he got on me about using U100 needles when he saw my dosing. Now I know he knew I was doing that since early last year before we even switched to him, and he’s always very complimentary about our care of Asher, but maybe he forgot, had a bad day, dunno. And this exchange was not what I needed on a more than busy day, the day before I leave for 3 days. I felt like he scolded me or something. @-)
But once I got him past that, he asked me to reduce to 2.5u for 3 full days. I don’t think he was thrilled with me doing a sliding scale either, and I am trying to work with him on this so I said I’d try. I need him to give me the insulin and he is good about usually dealing with questions by email, so I am trying to listen to what he has to say, be a good monkey, etc. o
First day on reduced dose was ok but Asher has been high since then (300s ps and 200s mid day). So I have to go back up in dose to around where we were. I sent the vet an email to this effect, so I hope he’s not bummed with me but I have to get Asher in better numbers.
So back to the dosing and rebound drawing board. I am thinking we need a day dose and a night dose going by the info we’ve collected recently. I also will try to update the spreadsheet from when I left on Friday.
Sorry again for being AWOL, life just gets beyond me some weeks. Now for some drugs and a nap to get rid of this headache. :YMSIGH:
I know the feeling about being busy and whatnot. Hope Asher starts doing better.