George&Bert
Active Member
Apparently my meter was problematic this morning so tonight I brought Andre' to the vet for a BG reading...MISTAKE!!
In order not to upset him the tech tried doing it the way we do via the ear. Except they used the needle off the syringe. they kept poking and squeezing and pretty soon he was ballistic. I had to sop it and drug him out of there. On the way home I bought new test strips from "Dewee, Cheetum & Howe" pharmacy.
I retested my meter and it was fine. I had a group of bad strips.
I now had to re-poke him and he understandably went nuts. I could hardly hold him and hit the large vein that runs up the ear by mistake. I had a gusher on my hands and had to use that blood.
How can I adjust that reading?
Just reading that some people test by poking the vein and others next to the vein as I have done in the past. Is there a reading difference?
In order not to upset him the tech tried doing it the way we do via the ear. Except they used the needle off the syringe. they kept poking and squeezing and pretty soon he was ballistic. I had to sop it and drug him out of there. On the way home I bought new test strips from "Dewee, Cheetum & Howe" pharmacy.
I retested my meter and it was fine. I had a group of bad strips.
I now had to re-poke him and he understandably went nuts. I could hardly hold him and hit the large vein that runs up the ear by mistake. I had a gusher on my hands and had to use that blood.
How can I adjust that reading?
Just reading that some people test by poking the vein and others next to the vein as I have done in the past. Is there a reading difference?
