Thanks for the warm welcome!! Y'all sure make me more at ease about tomorrow!
Vicky - Don't worry about hijacking the thread; I learn a lot from the discussions. :smile:
WHEN TO SHOOT - You brought up something I meant to ask. I find it easiest to shoot while Hershey is eating. If I do it right, he never even checks up. If I wait until he's finished, he's too interested in what's in my hand and what I'm doing. Is it okay to keep shooting while he's eating? And, YES - Hershey is a GOOD eater! I didn't think we'd ever fill him up - increased his food to 9-oz daily and he said, "Too much." So, backed him down to 8-oz and he lost weight. Yesterday, increased him to 8.5-oz and he's eating it. I thought his ideal weight would be 12-lb, but can't force him to eat those extra ounces, so maybe he's saying somewhere between 10 - 11-oz is his idea of ideal weight.
SHOOTING SITE - According to the picture - I guess I've been shooting more side of chest. We tried a couple of other places and thought rotating through might be the answer, but he had such differing BG's! He had hip surgery several years ago and we thought that surgical hip might absorb differently, too. But, looking back at his SS, those wonky numbers could've just been him.

I've gotten in the habit of fur shots lately. SO frustrating that I'm doing it the same way I have for months...well, obviously, I'm doing SOMETHING different since the fur shots are new...trying to make sure to take my time and really pay attention to what I'm doing so, hopefully, if I give another fur shot I will notice something I'm doing differently.
PROZINC - You mentioned the lack of duration. We found it petered out for Hershey by +10 (almost always); we moved to TID, but still doesn't last the whole 8 hours.
paha - Sheila - I've gotten pretty good at eyeballin' but I don't think .42u is happening! ;-)
Thanks, Marty. Still nervous, but ready to get started! I wish we could start tomorrow morning, but when the prescription wasn't called in until time for the pharmacy to close, it just wasn't possible. So, we'll start at 8pm.
CHANGING SHOT TIMES - I heard it was harder to change the shot times with Levemir. That's why we went with 8/8, so it would right for Sundays.
Thanks, Laura. We had a hard time finding a name for Hershey. The kids kept picking names and calling him, but he wouldn't look at them (obviously, meaning he didn't like the name). We came home one night to find him asleep in Doug's lap next to Doug's candy wrappers (apparently, they had a party in our absence!). We called him Hershey and he looked up. There ya' go! Yeah, I've always said he was actually a panther. He's a pretty big kitty (Lu measured him at 35.5" to the tip of his tail.) and he's like people. He sits very tall and regal. Something about us and black cats. We had Smokey, then Hershey and now have Oreo, too. :smile:
Good idea about taking the keys; it's a LONG walk from our house to IHOP!! :lol: :lol:
Thanks, Jill - It sounds like y'all are thinking somewhere between .25 and .5 is the best place to start. So, what if we start at .4u and SCREAM for help? :smile: The information said +3 +6 +9 between AM and PM doses. So, not between PM and AM? I was planning to do both for the first couple of days (unless I sleep through the alarm, which I have been known to do since starting this dance).
Thanks to you (and Alex, too!) for all of the effort on the SS. I've been studying it. As my daughter would say, it looks FAANCY. (AAA sound very stressed by my southern daughter! My son used to tell her she needed to teach her (then) boyfriend how to talk country ;-) )
Hershey doesn't have any other problems right now (that we know of). I used to go to church with a vet, ran into her in Costco, talked about FD and she said to send her the SS and she'd give me her thoughts. She asked what kind of tests had been run to rule out underlying infections, urinalysis, etc. I hadn't even thought about all of that, only bloodwork was done as far as I know.
Going to ask about that when they go back on 7/13.
With TID, we've been testing 6 - 9 times a day, so we're kind of used to lots of testing. Said I should buy stock in diabetic supplies!!
Donna - I was thinking you were going to mention changing insulins soon. Maybe you could come on over to Lev, too?

Thanks for the well wishes. Let me know where you go so I can check up on you!
Hey, Denise - Thanks for cheering us on!
Sheila - If I get a reading of (50) are you saying to automatically reduce the dose or wait for it to happen, again - that 'repeatability' thing and all that? I'm so afraid that we've missed his window of opportunity because I backed off too quickly in the beginning. But, then again, I didn't have enough data and wanted to keep him safe. I keep telling myself I'm doing the best I can each time there is a decision to be made. Sometimes I listen ;-)
Thanks for the link. I'll wait until tomorrow and read it with fresh eyes.
Hey, Libby - Thanks for the links, wish I had it in me to stay up tonight and read them. I've always been a night owl, but now it's harder to get up in the morning. I would blame it on 'maturity' but I'd rather blame it on FD!
Thanks, Heather - for talking me through this. I've never heard anyone mention nodes of undelivered insulin...I had no idea...
THANKS to EVERYONE for taking the time to help educate us. I've read your responses a couple of times (and plan to read them at least a couple more times!) and look forward to reading the links y'all provided. Guess I need to note where y'all are so I can figure out who's up when I am...Sorry I got so long-winded that's not like me at all :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: