Mark is heading towards going OTJ (I hope!)

[Jess and Marky Mark]

Post from a week ago

So, I think we are about ready to try taking Mark OTJ.

A few days ago, we lowered his dose to "some" (based on the Syringe & Insulin Info page) because he's been consistently hitting the 70s-80s about 2-4 hours after his shot and I think we've had a couple bounces. I plan on doing to do a curve tomorrow to see how the "some" dose is holding and continuing to get +2 and +3 numbers in the evenings until we go OTJ.

To explain the missing shots and wonky numbers lately: We had construction going on at our house. When we weren't working at home, we were spending a lot of time away from home with visiting family. Mark was pretty stressed and his appetite and bg showed it.

 

[Wendy&Neko]

The curve might be informative, good plan. Are you giving him a small snack at +8-9, to see if that brings down the preshot numbers?

 

[Jess and Marky Mark]

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He gets fed at 6:30am and again at 6:30pm. We leave the food out for him to graze on until it's gone. If he eats it all and is still hungry in the evening, we will give him a snack but that's usually at +1 or +2 and doesn't happen too often.

We aren't home at +8-9 during the day. At night, that would be 3-4am so he's usually sleeping. If he is up and acting hungry at that time of night, I'll test and feed him. It's been awhile since that's happened, though.

 

[Bobbie And Bubba]

That's exciting! I hope your curve this weekend will support you starting an OTJ trail.