this could be an interesting thread
i get up at 5:30am, flip the switch on the coffee pot i prepared the night before, do a round on the weight set, go upstairs and shower and get myself ready, tell Jr to shhhhhhhh, go back downstairs, grab a batch of food and a plastic bag, go to Mommie Kitty's litterbox and clean it, tell Jr to shhhhhhh, go upstairs and clean the box in the extra bathroom, feed what i call the bedroom 3, go across the hall and clean the three litterboxes in my office closet, go downstairs and clean the box at the bottom of the lower set of stairs, go into the garage and clean the box in there and feed the girly girls. take out my bag of you know what to the trash can outside and go back inside. pour my cup of coffee, grab another batch of food and head out to the kitty enclosure and clean the 3 boxes there and feed some kitties. go inside, dole out oral meds to the appropriate kittes, do subq's if it's the appropriate day, clean up that mess and check the clock. if it's 6:30 i test Mousie, shoot her insulin, then feed her and her roomies. i also at that time yell at fiance that it's time to get up. make his breakfast and then i kill time waiting for him by either playing with the kitties or doing some chore or playing treasure isle on facebook. once he's ready i fill up the water bowls, grab the frozen cat food out of the freezer and put 2 cubes in every food dish and then off to work for the day.
a pretty similar occurrence in the evening occurs barring the workout and yelling at fiance to get up for the most part
actual time doing the diabetes part, 3 minutes tops
probably not quite the answer you were looking for though?
as far as in what order you do it, it kinda depends on the insulin you use and your cat's characteristics.
with insulins like Humulin N you would want to make sure food was onboard before you give it whereas with something like Lantus, that's not quite so important. if your cat tends to vomit alot or have stubborn days where they won't eat, etc....all plays into the timeline also.
with us, we use lantus, used to use pzi, and fortunately my girl never vomits and she thinks every meal is her last so will eat anytime food is presented to her so when we shoot, before or after eating, doesn't matter so much because i know she will eat and she won't vomit.
now if my late Spazzie had become diabetic, it would have been different because she was a vomiter. she would scarf her food alot and end up vomiting because of it. so with her, i probably would have tested her, fed her, then waited perhaps a half hour to make sure her food was going to stay in her, then gave her her insulin.
does that help at all?
eta: wanted to add that i do test shoot feed because my girl is a feisty rescue and if i feed her first, she wouldn't cooperate for a test so she knows that if she sits still for her test and shot, she gets food right after
