Squiggy is curving today...

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It's Jen updating the spreadsheet and popping in...the below post was Jean the other day on another thread...thought you would enjoy. We are going to be painting and having a board tutorial while we curve Squiggs today! Hope everyone is having a great morning!!! Jen :mrgreen:



Yes Jen... I always make sure Squigs has a good snacky-snack before shooting! You have taught me well so far!!!
205 this morning and 219 this evening. Squigs is starting to show signs of his "old" and I mean old self! YAY!!!!! Tried to eat a tried leaf that got carried in the house by on my shoe... begging for "illegal" snacks (he was and still is a, excuse me, a food *****!) Seems to be walking better. He looked like Otis from the Andy Griffith Show walking into his cell! (LMAO)

If ya'll don't mind, i would like to share my history with Squiggy. I started dating DB (and whats really funny his actual initials are DB) in Feb of 2008, and soon to find out Squiggy too. It had just been the 2 of them for several years until I came along... DB of course, didn't mind my company, but Squiggy was not so pleased. I would be sitting on the couch, whould get up for wahtever reason, come back and Squigs would be there looking at me like= "so what are you gonna do about it?" CAT-A-TUDE!!! And most certainly was NOT please when I moved in. I would dare to get up in the middle of the night to go pee because I knew what would be waiting in my spot when I got back.... SQUIGGY! With that same look. having a cat myself, Fuskers, i gave respect where respect was due and would go and sleep on the couch. Not to mention other passive-aggressive traits, this went on for a while. He finally accepted I was not leaving, and we have become the best of buds. That being said, tonight while I was out on the deck, he saundered over to the sliding glass door and was looking at me with his big orange eyes ( the clearest I have seen for a long time!) and had this look of "thank you"
 
Ugg +2 133 +4 224

He did not eat that great of a breakfsat before his shot so Jean gave him some chicken boiled somewhere around +3. He is resting comfortably...
That +4 would not be a liver dump this soon would it?

The vial of insulin underneath says sterile empty vial by hospira.
Top label (electric yellow)says PZI U-40 insulin10 ml Lot A2667 expires 7/11..guess we will have to ask the vet what kind it is...
 
+6 225

I'm a little worried his respirations are about 34ish and heart rate seems fast...almost too fast to count. over 150 i think. buthe is stalking Jeans lunch...he wants people food.
 
What a great story, thanks for sharing!!!

Those are some wonky #s today. I don't recall seeing any pattern quite like that, except when someone was worried by an early drop and fed high carb. Shouldn't be a steep drop, and #s aren't low, so.... hmmmm.

But maybe if he didn't eat much breffis something went funky & his system freaked at the drop? I don't know anything about heart rate/respiration stuff, sounds scary. I'm hoping he is acting more normal by the time I'm reading this. :)

Maybe a Health post if you haven't already? Glad you are there with her to help Jen, if he's having a bad day, good to have some help around. Hopefully it's nothing major.

Might be he's earning a dose decrease though? That's pretty low for +2 - good if you know he gets shallow drops, but for a lot of cats that could be a dose too high. Jumping ahead of the rest of today's #s :) but that's what I'm thinking maybe for the moment... maybe 0.75 or something? His PSs have been so awesome I wouldn't want to lose ground, but could also mean he doesn't really need the 1u.
 
Hmmm, peeked at the SS again, guess that could be a steep drop since it's at +2, could have been 100 points in an hour or less, so maybe that's what's up? I'm thinking maybe a 0.8 or 0.75 is in order, unless it looks like this is maybe just from low eating this AM? If he is a variable eater, she may want to have a smaller dose for low eating days - maybe 1u if he eats well, and 0.5 or 0.75 if his eating is off....? Of course that would need some more data to see if that's really what works, but that's what pops into my head. Darn it not getting typical results (maybe) for curve day. :(

Well in any case, I hope he is feeling ok.
 
rest of the curve..did dose decrease...to .8

amps 232
+2 133
+4 224
+6 225
+8 235
+10 219
+12 251

we decided to shoot .8

Good news about Squiggy..Daddy just got home and thinks he looks better...I thought so too. Was very interested all day when we had real food. He went looking for dry food so she gave him several kernels of MD..less than ideal carbs but he has to eat. Better than the original dry kitty crack he was on.

Jean has orders to get +2...I'll post when I get it...

Jen
 
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