Ana & Frosty (GA)
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Yesterday’s post.
Dan couldn’t figure out why the sugar was so high this morning, until I got home and found Frosty eating out of the torn dry food bag. Dan said the food closet door was open when he got home last night, and the other cats didn’t wanna eat this morning... now we know why! But now we are officially out of kitty kibble, so unless they can open the plastic bin that holds the dog kibble, there won’t be any more raids. Jerks!
Apparently our pet sitter also didn’t show up last night, and the pets didn’t get fed and Frosty didn’t get his insulin until Dan got home 45 minutes after their normal time. Her flight got delayed apparently, and she didn’t let us know until I texted her to confront her (during the opening ceremony for my walk, none the less... I was pissed). I didn’t even know she was away and was catching a flight this close to her visit, otherwise we would have made other arrangements. Dan could have come home earlier too... she’s been taking care of our pets for a year, but she didn’t call or text us to even let us know.
Is anyone from northern NJ and has a good pet sitter who is responsible and can give insulin? If they can check blood sugar,it’s a plus (mine can’t, and can’t draw insulin. I pre-draw for her... yes, I know all about how horrible it is, but I don’t have a choice.) I guess I’ll post about this in the main or community forum... I was really pissed off about all of this yesterday.
So, for the above reasons, the curve today won’t be very useful. But I’ll still check to see how low he can go with the kibble and the new dose ...
The walk for suicide prevention went well. I walked by myself, but met a girl who was also walking alone during the first mile, and we walked the whole thing together. (She lost her dad to suicide when she was 4 years old). It was definitely 19 miles though according to my Fitbit, and not the 16.8 they said. I have 2 blisters on my right foot, and I’m just exhausted from being up all night, but otherwise it was good. Very emotional at the end when we got to the finish line and it was still dark, and all the luminaria was lit up and lit our way to the finish line, and spelled out the words “hope” and a heart on the steps of the museum. Maybe it was the exhaustion, but I cried as I sat next to my luminaria waiting for the sun to rise to watch the closing ceremony. It’s hard to imagine the kind of pain people who lost loved ones to mental illness are going through, when I was this affected by the death of a celebrity. But I raised $1755 for this important cause, and i hope that by doing so, as well as talking about it, i can help save even one life. And I want to let you guys know that I am always here if anyone needs to talk! It’s ok not to be ok, and it’s ok to ask for help if you need it. It is not easy to be a parent of a sick kitty.
Hope everyone has a good Sunday. I uploaded pics below from my walk.
Dan couldn’t figure out why the sugar was so high this morning, until I got home and found Frosty eating out of the torn dry food bag. Dan said the food closet door was open when he got home last night, and the other cats didn’t wanna eat this morning... now we know why! But now we are officially out of kitty kibble, so unless they can open the plastic bin that holds the dog kibble, there won’t be any more raids. Jerks!
Apparently our pet sitter also didn’t show up last night, and the pets didn’t get fed and Frosty didn’t get his insulin until Dan got home 45 minutes after their normal time. Her flight got delayed apparently, and she didn’t let us know until I texted her to confront her (during the opening ceremony for my walk, none the less... I was pissed). I didn’t even know she was away and was catching a flight this close to her visit, otherwise we would have made other arrangements. Dan could have come home earlier too... she’s been taking care of our pets for a year, but she didn’t call or text us to even let us know.
Is anyone from northern NJ and has a good pet sitter who is responsible and can give insulin? If they can check blood sugar,it’s a plus (mine can’t, and can’t draw insulin. I pre-draw for her... yes, I know all about how horrible it is, but I don’t have a choice.) I guess I’ll post about this in the main or community forum... I was really pissed off about all of this yesterday.
So, for the above reasons, the curve today won’t be very useful. But I’ll still check to see how low he can go with the kibble and the new dose ...
The walk for suicide prevention went well. I walked by myself, but met a girl who was also walking alone during the first mile, and we walked the whole thing together. (She lost her dad to suicide when she was 4 years old). It was definitely 19 miles though according to my Fitbit, and not the 16.8 they said. I have 2 blisters on my right foot, and I’m just exhausted from being up all night, but otherwise it was good. Very emotional at the end when we got to the finish line and it was still dark, and all the luminaria was lit up and lit our way to the finish line, and spelled out the words “hope” and a heart on the steps of the museum. Maybe it was the exhaustion, but I cried as I sat next to my luminaria waiting for the sun to rise to watch the closing ceremony. It’s hard to imagine the kind of pain people who lost loved ones to mental illness are going through, when I was this affected by the death of a celebrity. But I raised $1755 for this important cause, and i hope that by doing so, as well as talking about it, i can help save even one life. And I want to let you guys know that I am always here if anyone needs to talk! It’s ok not to be ok, and it’s ok to ask for help if you need it. It is not easy to be a parent of a sick kitty.
Hope everyone has a good Sunday. I uploaded pics below from my walk.
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Hopefully the sugars will improve tomorrow. I will post updates once I get his ACTH results back towards the end of the week.
10 years working in a hospital this year (3 as a PA, not counting my PA student year).
