Yesterday’s Condo
Yesterday's recap:
396 - amps
385 - +11
391 - pmps (shot @6pm, fluids @7pm)
353 - +2
356 - +4
409 - amps
Not much to say about yesterday, so I won't.
The nice vet was very busy; I saw that when I was at the office last nite, but she is always good to call back, which she did at the end of her shift at 11pm.
She has not had an opportunity to look closely into the 2 test info sheets I left for her, but she is going to call the lab today and get info about shipping, likely by purolator or a similar. I told her that there are others in Canada who have had their blood draws sent by their vets and it seems this one place is the only one in N.America that does the tests, so if others in Saskatoon or Calgary or Winnipeg can get the test done, then so should she.
I made a point of mentioning the prices listed for the cost of the tests, 12 and 45 US I think, and also that these 2 conditions are not as rare as she may think so having the knowledge of the process for shipping would be valuable experience for her to have in treating other diabetic cats. I said that I wanted to know what the real shipping costs would be if handled by them because I was willing to ship on my own if too costly from the vets billing. She's good though, and said they may send to their lab and have their lab ship to the US lab, or she may send directly, but would look into the logistics because there are only certain days that the tests are done, and we would have to plan when to draw blood and ship so that it arrives in time for the test.
Off the top of my head, I told her to look it up and she may find that up to 30% of all diabetic cats have one or both of these conditions, when looking at high dose animals. Yeah, I know my numbers could be whacked, but it got her attention.
I said I could try to find out more from others here in Canada who have had the tests done, if they know anything about how the shipping was done.
She said that fluids are like kitty gatoraid with good stuff that is not going to harm Shadoe so if some fluids are seeming to make Shadoe act better, it's likely good to give her some. I said I was thinking of every 2nd day, and she agreed that would be just fine.
For the pain and nausea meds, she said that I can continue to use the pepcid and Codeine TD and if I felt I needed more, just pop in and if needed to be ordered for us, she would, no problem. I do still have the cerenia on hand if ever needed.
For the insulin, she said definitely increase and is just fine with whatever I have said about being more aggressive with increases based on her numbers.
Like I said before, she may not be an expert on FD, but she is willing to work with us and is receptive to learning more.
I am glad that she is going to get the ball rolling on the 2 tests, gathering info, and then we can arrange to take Shadoe in on a day that will get the blood draw to the proper lab in time to test.
This morn, both cats jumped on the bed to wake me up, before the alarm, then jumped off; that was nice. There was nothing out of normal today - The pepcid snuck down the same was as yesterday, Shadoe had some chicken cubes while waiting for test/shot/feed time.
After all of that stuff was out of the way, Shadoe went over to nibble her fresh catnip while lying down. She was reaching up to the plant with her paw, pulled down some of the plant, then chewed on that part. In the end, she pulled the whole plant over sideways, onto herself.
Whoa, what happened there? She don't know; she just moved over a bit and pretended that it was like that when she got to the rug! Honest!
I got out a couple catnip mouses that were in a container of dried catnip, just marinating for her. I also watered and uprighted her fresh plant.
And Shadoe was happy again. She tossed the mouses around, rolled in the dry catnip, and nibbled on the plant while standing this time.
Now, she is grooming and nicely stretched out on the hall rug. She really likes the hall or the two rugs I put down there. Maybe they feel nice for sleeping.
Time to get ready for work and head out. I may be home in time for a +11, but we will see tonite. The auto feeder is loaded, there is fresh catnip on the rug, so Shadoe is fine with it. I am allowed to go out.
Scratches for all the kitties and pretty numbers on the beans' tests.
Yesterday's recap:
396 - amps
385 - +11
391 - pmps (shot @6pm, fluids @7pm)
353 - +2
356 - +4
409 - amps
Not much to say about yesterday, so I won't.
The nice vet was very busy; I saw that when I was at the office last nite, but she is always good to call back, which she did at the end of her shift at 11pm.
She has not had an opportunity to look closely into the 2 test info sheets I left for her, but she is going to call the lab today and get info about shipping, likely by purolator or a similar. I told her that there are others in Canada who have had their blood draws sent by their vets and it seems this one place is the only one in N.America that does the tests, so if others in Saskatoon or Calgary or Winnipeg can get the test done, then so should she.
I made a point of mentioning the prices listed for the cost of the tests, 12 and 45 US I think, and also that these 2 conditions are not as rare as she may think so having the knowledge of the process for shipping would be valuable experience for her to have in treating other diabetic cats. I said that I wanted to know what the real shipping costs would be if handled by them because I was willing to ship on my own if too costly from the vets billing. She's good though, and said they may send to their lab and have their lab ship to the US lab, or she may send directly, but would look into the logistics because there are only certain days that the tests are done, and we would have to plan when to draw blood and ship so that it arrives in time for the test.
Off the top of my head, I told her to look it up and she may find that up to 30% of all diabetic cats have one or both of these conditions, when looking at high dose animals. Yeah, I know my numbers could be whacked, but it got her attention.
I said I could try to find out more from others here in Canada who have had the tests done, if they know anything about how the shipping was done.
She said that fluids are like kitty gatoraid with good stuff that is not going to harm Shadoe so if some fluids are seeming to make Shadoe act better, it's likely good to give her some. I said I was thinking of every 2nd day, and she agreed that would be just fine.
For the pain and nausea meds, she said that I can continue to use the pepcid and Codeine TD and if I felt I needed more, just pop in and if needed to be ordered for us, she would, no problem. I do still have the cerenia on hand if ever needed.
For the insulin, she said definitely increase and is just fine with whatever I have said about being more aggressive with increases based on her numbers.
Like I said before, she may not be an expert on FD, but she is willing to work with us and is receptive to learning more.
I am glad that she is going to get the ball rolling on the 2 tests, gathering info, and then we can arrange to take Shadoe in on a day that will get the blood draw to the proper lab in time to test.
This morn, both cats jumped on the bed to wake me up, before the alarm, then jumped off; that was nice. There was nothing out of normal today - The pepcid snuck down the same was as yesterday, Shadoe had some chicken cubes while waiting for test/shot/feed time.
After all of that stuff was out of the way, Shadoe went over to nibble her fresh catnip while lying down. She was reaching up to the plant with her paw, pulled down some of the plant, then chewed on that part. In the end, she pulled the whole plant over sideways, onto herself.
Whoa, what happened there? She don't know; she just moved over a bit and pretended that it was like that when she got to the rug! Honest!
I got out a couple catnip mouses that were in a container of dried catnip, just marinating for her. I also watered and uprighted her fresh plant.
And Shadoe was happy again. She tossed the mouses around, rolled in the dry catnip, and nibbled on the plant while standing this time.
Now, she is grooming and nicely stretched out on the hall rug. She really likes the hall or the two rugs I put down there. Maybe they feel nice for sleeping.
Time to get ready for work and head out. I may be home in time for a +11, but we will see tonite. The auto feeder is loaded, there is fresh catnip on the rug, so Shadoe is fine with it. I am allowed to go out.
Scratches for all the kitties and pretty numbers on the beans' tests.
