possible breakthrough?

Well Em ate most of her breakfast this morning. I put down a 3.2 oz can for her, and there was about .6 oz of it left. Her AM sugars were around 330. Tested at 12:30 and she was 228. Didn't give her anything to eat all day, and boy was she hungry at dinner time. She did vomit a little bile at about 4:30 ~ 5:00. Woofed down an entire can at dinner, and we are going to offer her a bit more. PM sugars were in the 300s again.. I can live with this if she keeps eating well... definitely need to get her on a regular food though. the group at felinediabetes.com recommend a high protein low carb no grain diet, which fancy feast provides. Will have to get her some.

break through

Okay then. Who knows if it was the stimulant (probably not) or the force feeding, or if it was just time, but last night we had a break through. Em went to the bathroom and had a cow patty BM. Much better than the water stuff she had for two days. I heard a cat whining, so I immediately jumped out of bed, but she was just standing there - must have been someone in another room. I went to the bathroom to see what she did. She followed me looking absolutely chipper. I offered her some food and she dug right in. I was sure she was going to eat the whole thing, but she stopped after a few minutes, came up to see me, then went back down for a few more bites. YAY!!

From the description of what happened this morning when the hubby fed her she's not back to her ol self quite yet, but it is a dramatic improvement!!

dinner update

I went to the pet food store and got LOTS of samples of food. Went to the grocery store, got her some clam chowder. Forgot the baby food. Did get deli turkey. Food was not of interest, neither was the chowder, but the turkey did get a chew or two. I could get her to eat more if I held it upwards so she had to look up to see it. This is how I usually feed her treats. Got her to eat about two and a half slices. Did a bg which was in the 300's.. although the reading I've been doing says that my glucometer might not be accurate. The fructosamine that was done which measures the average BG for the past week or two (although dr said 3 weeks) was in the 500's Hum. What to think. I know she was with out insulin for a while, and my glucometer said she was in the 300's. *shrug* from what I've read it is accurate when the blood sugars are in a more normal range. I'm considering getting a second glucometer. Which is sad cause I have a second one, I just listed it on ebay! although it needs new batteries and new strips. Might be cheaper to find a different one on ebay than it would be to get that one up and running... especially since I didn't like it much in the first place. Em is not a fan of bleeding, and this one required more blood than she was willing to give.

Sooooo she ate the turkey, she ate some treats.. but not much else, so I ended up force feeding her half a can of I/D. Something gentle for upset tummies. Hopefully she'll keep it down all night. I also started her on an appetite stimulant. I wasn't a big fan of that either.. but we'll see.

*crosses fingers that in the morning this will all be but a fleeting memory*

I had to share

I found this when doing some more reading on diabetic cats....

Chuckles was a 9 year old "sweet" kitty whose work on earth was completed in November, 2005 when he graduated to Heaven.

cat walking across your keyboard a problem?

A more high-tech solution is PawSense ($20), available from BitBoost
Systems (www.bitboost.com). The PawSense computer program recognizes
the patterns of a cat walking across the keyboard. The program
prevents further input once it launches, puts up a screen-saver and
has the computer emit a noise to annoy the cat into walking away.

Ok, this just amuses me to no end..


Anyway. Let's see. Em is still getting excited over treats, and ate more this morning than she has in the past couple of days. We offered her wet food again, and she turned her nose up at it. Dry food works for her, but she stops after only a few bites. I'm considering forcing her again. I hate doing that. It stresses her. I am also considering getting her human food that might tempt her... but would that do more harm than good? If I spoil her on human food, will I ever get her back on cat food. *considers that since I'm doing quite a few updates per day I have probably told you all this already - if so I'm sorry*