We have reached Day 12 and Glucose levels are still far from perfect. We adjusted today to a super slightly higher dose, but gut feeling is telling me not enough. We will see after the 3rd reading this evening and talk to the Vet. Obi is getting to his tolerance threshold! After being still in… Continue reading Day 12 – Continue
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Day 7/8 – Insulin = 2
If I had thoughts of getting this done under 2 weeks, well…… 🤣 Since yesterday we are on two Insulin shots a day. We settled on 7:30 am and 7:30 pm as the best times right now. Still same dose of 1.5 units on a 0.5 ml syringe. As it was the first evening shot,… Continue reading Day 7/8 – Insulin = 2
Day 6 – Insulin dose
We have raised the dose a little bit and trying 1.5 units today on a 0.5ml Syringe. Two readings have been alright, just over 11 mmol/L, and Obi is less hungry today and a bit more sleepy. I have continue with my research in regards to kidney diets this morning, combined with the diabetes and… Continue reading Day 6 – Insulin dose
Day 5 – New Insulin start
It’s Sunday morning and we are off with first glucose reading, which was at 11.4 mmol/L and our first ever Insulin shot we gave ourselves. Let’s just say it was less than ‘professional’, but we will get there. Found a great link on the Feline Diabetes from the Cornell Feline Health Center: https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center/health-information/feline-health-topics/feline-diabetes Obi had… Continue reading Day 5 – New Insulin start
Day 4 – Preparations
We are getting ready to restart with Insulin again tomorrow. Just returned from a briefing by the vet on the new low dosage and we decided to only test the glucose level every 3 hours instead of every 2! Lets hope for better results this time. A local pharmacy thinks it is possible to find… Continue reading Day 4 – Preparations
Day 3 – unexpected rest day
Finding these tiny 0.3 ml syringes is a bigger problem than we thought and we are still trying to source them! Better get a huge supply is what I’m thinking…. So, we all had a little afternoon snooze and now actually hoping we can continue soon. Otherwise it seems like we are getting into a… Continue reading Day 3 – unexpected rest day
Day 2 – Insulin
A little recap from yesterday, day 1…..what a roller-coaster! It was a rough one on all of us; not even mentioning Obi’s poor ears! After the vet gave his first shot we went home and finally Obi received some late breakfast which he eat like a hungry wolf. The first reading at the vet was… Continue reading Day 2 – Insulin
Day 1 – starting Insulin
Today we are starting our Insulin journey…waiting to pack Obi up and take him to the Vet. The first day apparently will mean to take blood from Obi ever 2 hours to test his Glucose levels to be able to determine and get to an ideal Blood Glucose Curve. We are all very anxious and… Continue reading Day 1 – starting Insulin
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