Ilkka and Tom
Member Since 2010
Hi all,
Tom's not been looking great lately, and I have been trying to ignore what it probably meant, using the unbelievable chaos and busyness of our lives to not deal with it. My bad. My wife (Barbara) is not even here -- there is some reconstruction at our house in Texas, crews, everything covered in plastic, and she's been in Virginia taking care of other business.
Anyway, yesterday I couldn't postpone the inevitable, and as I was out of test strips, I took Tom to a vet, not our regular vet, and bg was 426. He is now on 1u of Levemir, and I will start the ss up soon. Gave him 1u of Lev at last night to a 446, overslept, AMPS at +16 was 345. So we are back in the saddle.
The amazing thing to me is that he knew exactly what I was doing when I brought out the new vial and syringes... he approved. (I have a whole theory of bean-to-kitty telepathy as a core part of insulin therapy, will share it some other time, if appropriate.) Someone asked me in email whether I needed a newbie kit. Of course I do. It was comical. I was so rattled I inserted test strips in the wrong way, twice, then had a little tiff because it wouldn't read. In the meantime Tom was unhappy with an ear hole the size of an earring prep that I managed to invent with the lancet, my hands shaking while I stared dumbfounded at the E for "Error" in the meter window. Sigh. Then with the syringe, once I figured out which was the business end, I couldn't believe how small a 1u is (BD .3cc, no half unit markings). How easy it would have been to give him 10u, just because I couldn't get my head around the idea that I had been dosing that little sliver and smaller for all that time.
Oh well. Sorry to be back, but you know what I mean -- glad you guys are here. A wave from Tom to all his old friends.
Ilkka
Tom's not been looking great lately, and I have been trying to ignore what it probably meant, using the unbelievable chaos and busyness of our lives to not deal with it. My bad. My wife (Barbara) is not even here -- there is some reconstruction at our house in Texas, crews, everything covered in plastic, and she's been in Virginia taking care of other business.
Anyway, yesterday I couldn't postpone the inevitable, and as I was out of test strips, I took Tom to a vet, not our regular vet, and bg was 426. He is now on 1u of Levemir, and I will start the ss up soon. Gave him 1u of Lev at last night to a 446, overslept, AMPS at +16 was 345. So we are back in the saddle.
The amazing thing to me is that he knew exactly what I was doing when I brought out the new vial and syringes... he approved. (I have a whole theory of bean-to-kitty telepathy as a core part of insulin therapy, will share it some other time, if appropriate.) Someone asked me in email whether I needed a newbie kit. Of course I do. It was comical. I was so rattled I inserted test strips in the wrong way, twice, then had a little tiff because it wouldn't read. In the meantime Tom was unhappy with an ear hole the size of an earring prep that I managed to invent with the lancet, my hands shaking while I stared dumbfounded at the E for "Error" in the meter window. Sigh. Then with the syringe, once I figured out which was the business end, I couldn't believe how small a 1u is (BD .3cc, no half unit markings). How easy it would have been to give him 10u, just because I couldn't get my head around the idea that I had been dosing that little sliver and smaller for all that time.
Oh well. Sorry to be back, but you know what I mean -- glad you guys are here. A wave from Tom to all his old friends.
Ilkka
