My friend Janet had diabetes. I am thinking again and again about the time she showed me her test.<\/p>\n
I am reading about how other cat owners have taken their cat’s glucose levels. This is altogether terrifying. I am pretty overwhelmed by what this disease means for me.<\/p>\n
And I was feeling rather overwhelmed before. But, as Chris keeps reminding me, this has been a bad week.<\/p>\n
I am recovering from Strep throat. The worst sort of stret throat I have ever had. It basically left me in so much joint-achy pain I couldn’t sleep, so throat swollen I couldn’t swallow, and so weak I couldn’t walk.<\/p>\n
We postponed thanksgiving in honor of my illness.<\/p>\n
And Skellig had to come up with a new creative health issue. I was in such a shape that I could not even sit steadily the first time I injeted him.<\/p>\n
Oh yeah, then Chris had to catch something. Not quite as bad as my illness, but he was a bundle of ick last night. We are both on the road to recovery now.<\/p>\n
Are you noticing my lack of thankfulness? Thanksgiving left me a little cld this year. I still haven’t had turkey or pie. Tomorrow, we think, we will try it.<\/p>\n
And now I am trying to swallow a lot of information about treating my cat that I just couldn’t take before. It’s hard to concentrate when you are shivering beneath about a hundred blankets.<\/p>\n
I’ve finally gotten around to reading the instructions from the vet. I did a few things wrong already.<\/p>\n
“ROLL the bottle of insulin, don’t shake it!”
\n“No, the OTHER kind of expensive prescription cat food.”
\n“I was supposed to write down everything the cat ate, peed, and injected?”<\/p>\n
Oh man.<\/p>\n
Did I mention that this is overwhelming?<\/p>\n
And to know that if I don’t do it right, the cat could die. And it would be entirely my fault.<\/p>\n
Well. I have made some mistakes. I haven’t been journaling everything. But I think I will purchase a blood meter. That way I can keep better track of how my cat’s treatment is going.<\/p>\n
There is a meter, there are special strips of special paper, there are extra lancets that draw the blood out of my cat–either from the ear or his paw.<\/p>\n
But I think I should do it. I know I’ll need it.<\/p>\n
I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My friend Janet had diabetes. I am thinking again and again about the time she showed me her test. I am reading about how other cat owners have taken their cat’s glucose levels. This is altogether terrifying. I am pretty … Continue reading