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tungolSo today had some drama to it. Gracie, my cat, is diabetic, and first off, she is okay! But it was scary for a bit.
I had to leave for work early today, so I asked Margaret to give Gracie her morning insulin dose, the syringe was on the counter. Unfortunately, there was also a different sized syringe elsewhere on the counter, from a different medication that she'd had recently. Margaret saw that one first. Normally Gracie gets 4 units of insulin, twice a day, but Margaret accidentally gave her somewhere between 20 and 40 units of insulin before she realized her mistake.
She tried texting me because she sort of felt like it was the wrong size, but I was in a meeting at the time without my phone, so I didn't see any of her messages until later, at which point I'd missed a lot of "EMERGENCY" texts and Margaret was already on her way to the emergency vet with Gracie. I left work to join her.
She gets glargine insulin, which is slow release, so it hadn't really started hitting her yet before she was in the care of the vet. She's in the hospital still, where they're keeping a close eye on her blood glucose levels, and have her on a sugar IV. She's stable at around 78 BG right now, which is the low end of normal, and probably lower than she's been in a while.
They aren't really sure how long she'll need to be there, because they don't have a record of a cat getting an overdose of this kind of insulin.
I feel bad - I told my dad about it on the phone a little bit ago but I forgot the rule of telling him that she was okay up front, and made him worry while I was explaining what happened.
So she's okay, but having a bad day, and in good hands. And I need to keep my phone on me.
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Side note, I mourn the lack of the kitten mood icon set here on DW, but I will accept its spiritual successor, the bunny set.
I had to leave for work early today, so I asked Margaret to give Gracie her morning insulin dose, the syringe was on the counter. Unfortunately, there was also a different sized syringe elsewhere on the counter, from a different medication that she'd had recently. Margaret saw that one first. Normally Gracie gets 4 units of insulin, twice a day, but Margaret accidentally gave her somewhere between 20 and 40 units of insulin before she realized her mistake.
She tried texting me because she sort of felt like it was the wrong size, but I was in a meeting at the time without my phone, so I didn't see any of her messages until later, at which point I'd missed a lot of "EMERGENCY" texts and Margaret was already on her way to the emergency vet with Gracie. I left work to join her.
She gets glargine insulin, which is slow release, so it hadn't really started hitting her yet before she was in the care of the vet. She's in the hospital still, where they're keeping a close eye on her blood glucose levels, and have her on a sugar IV. She's stable at around 78 BG right now, which is the low end of normal, and probably lower than she's been in a while.
They aren't really sure how long she'll need to be there, because they don't have a record of a cat getting an overdose of this kind of insulin.
I feel bad - I told my dad about it on the phone a little bit ago but I forgot the rule of telling him that she was okay up front, and made him worry while I was explaining what happened.
So she's okay, but having a bad day, and in good hands. And I need to keep my phone on me.
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Side note, I mourn the lack of the kitten mood icon set here on DW, but I will accept its spiritual successor, the bunny set.
