Tough 24 hours

I wasn't at all happy with how my vet started Webber on the insulin.  I do not know what her protocol for PZI is but she must not know the protocol for Lantus.  Actually, I should have guessed that since she had not even heard of the Solostar pens that I had.  *sign #1*
When I called the talk to a tech around 1pm yesterday, she told me that they gave him 4 units of insulin.  My heart started racing and I asked what his BG was before they started.  She told me it was four hundred something.  I got so upset right then and there because I knew that it was the stress that was causing those kinds of numbers.  He was consistantly reading <200 at home.  I hung up and got on the FMDB message board.  Everyone was supportive in how I felt and understood.  I emailed my boss that I had an emergency and left work to go and check on my baby.  I did not call ahead of time.  I was prepared to take him home if they were going to deny me seeing him.  I mean 4 units!!!!  From all the reading and research I had done on Lantus, you usually start around 1unit.  I couldn't believe.....

Once I got there they did let me go back.  He was hiding as much as he could in the back of the cage.  He looked so frightened.  I took him out and gave him loving.  We were able to go into an exam room and spend some time together.  I stayed for a while and felt comfortable enough to let them finish their day of testing to get it over with.

I was finally able to pick him up 12 hours after i dropped him off.  At that point his BG was 82.  The vet had already left for the day so I never even got to talk with her.  The tech called her on the phone, relayed all the BG #'s from throughout the day and them the tech game me the info that the vet told her to say.

Her Instructions - give 4units of insulin once a day for two weeks and then bring him back for another curve.  I told the tech that I was not going to bring him back to be subjected to wrangling out of a cage with a net for testing.  (Okay, I didn't use those exact words, but that is what I was thinking).

I asked the tech-what do I do if I get up in the morning and his numbers are below 200?  The tech actually told me that I did not have to test before giving the insulin.  OMG!!!!! 

At 11pm that night his BG was 100.  The next morning (24 hrs post injection) his BG was 157.  WTH?  She wanted me to give 4 units without testing?  I think Webber would have been in some serious trouble.

AND TO TOP IT OFF-----once I got home last night I realized that no one had shown me how to give an insulin injection, where to give the injection, how to measure it in the syringe and when to give it (before or after meal)!!!!!  That is just wrong.  As I am typing this I am thinking that I am going to call tomorrow to tell the vet this.  How can this happen?  Since he was DX 12/23/09 I have only had ONE telephone conversation with herm and that was after I specifically requested not to speak to a tech.

Oh the drama.

This evening when I got home I was fully prepared to test Webber's BG and start on 0.5units.  However, Webber was not ready.  LOL  We tried and we tried but just could not get a level from him.  He was getting angry and I did not want him to start to associate all of this with something bad.  So my DH and I decided to give Webber and myself a break until tomorrow night or Saturday when we are here to test.

Until then.....