Month: April 2023
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Vacation Pictures
Cheesy pictures of Buddy Kitty on his April 2023 road trip. He pulled out his sensor last night, and I have decided to give him a break. The last few weeks have shown the same pattern – slightly elevated blood sugars that he controls without external insulin.
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Road Trippin’ with Buddy
Buddy is currently on a road trip. He did not love the road travel in the van but seems to be quite alright with the aspect that he has one of his humans all to himself. His blood sugar has been rising when he is stressed, and he definitely is not happy about road travel.…
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Remission: A Second Chance to get it right
I view Buddy’s apparent remission as a second chance for Buddy and for us, to get it right. We must remove the factors that contribute to his Type 2 diabetes, because otherwise he will soon be right back at needing external insulin. The factors are specifically: What we are doing about that How we are…
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Here is how he did …
He brought himself back down. Also. It is 4:44, and Buddy is not happy about his restricted calorie diet. He is singing a protest song. T’es chiant, Buddy.
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Sans Pod again … let’s see how he does.
Buddy was using only 0.85 and 0.9 units yesterday and the day before, and his blood sugars were running low. It is fairly normal for the CGM to read wacky readings in the first day day and a half, but getting repeated LOW alarms for Buddy was a bit nerve-wrecking. I removed the pump this…
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Diabetic Kitty Goes Closed-Loop toward Safe Remission.
Buddy was diagnosed with Type 2 feline Diabetes mellitus on February 24, 2023. That was a bit of a shock. Poor Buddy. After some research, these were our short-term goals for Buddy’s treatment: What we don’t want: I also don’t want a pet sitter needing to give him insulin – I get anxiety imagining someone…
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Lesson learned – If I don’t reduce the footprint of the sensor, he will pull it off.
I replaced Buddy’s Dexcom sensor Saturday afternoon. He had been using it for 12 days, and it was coming loose on the sides. I had reglued it a few times with Skinister, but the dressing was becoming a bit hard from the multiple applications of Skinister. The sensor was still giving good readings though, and…
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50 hours since the last injection of Insulin … wow.
Buddy’s Nightscout curve on Friday morning at 8:00 Well, there is some up and down going on. Buddy got his last Injection of 1 IU of Glargine two days ago – Wednesday morning at 6:00. Unless the sensor is totally crazy, here’s a pattern I am noticing: His own insulin production seems to overshoot a…
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Added some links
I’ve started to add links to a second webpage http://closedloopkitty.org/useful-links/ and have cleaned this up a bit.
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Closed Loop for a Diabetic Cat???
Yes. For our cat. Important – I am neither a veterinarian nor a physician, and nothing on this website or blog should be viewed as medical advice. This is what I do for our cat Buddy. I have opinions, and this being my blog, I’ll state those opinions. Whatever I write here, are my opinions,…