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[Timsup2nothin]

Best of luck, I hope she pulls through in short order.

Hopefully. It's not our first rodeo, but it's an ordeal every time and one day she'll be too old to tough through it. Thanks for the concern.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

That was sort of how it went down with my first dog. She got bladder stones every 2 years, then every year, then every 6 months. It's a fairly massive operation and she was suffering from chronic UTI's in between and getting old enough the vet was nervous to operate and finally we had to call it. Massively inflated vet costs here didn't help. That was the worst part of it for me personally. I felt like I had personally let her down by not being able to pay a couple grand every 6 months..

 

[Timsup2nothin]

That was sort of how it went down with my first dog. She got bladder stones every 2 years, then every year, then every 6 months. It's a fairly massive operation and she was suffering from chronic UTI's in between and getting old enough the vet was nervous to operate and finally we had to call it. Massively inflated vet costs here didn't help. That was the worst part of it for me personally. I felt like I had personally let her down by not being able to pay a couple grand every 6 months..

The letdown there is the veterinary "industry." Constant UTIs and repeating bladder stones are symptoms, the kind of symptoms that are so lucrative to treat that diagnosing the actual problem is counterproductive to the bottom line. A reliable vet who will actually try to solve a problem rather than just follow the most simple but expensive course of action is hard to find.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

We tried to treat the root cause after the first stone presented itself. Unfortunately, she had a unique mixture of stone types that could not be treated with diet or medication. It was an endless loop of suffering that got worse with each cycle.

 

[The_J]

Good luck with your dog Tim :/.


So, second day at work.
Turns out the current institute uses an email system which has been updated the last time 8 years ago, looks accordingly, the HTTPS certificate is not working, and the intranet is down.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Did she pull through @Timsup2nothin ?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Did she pull through @Timsup2nothin ?

We're still working. Sugar is at least down into readable range as of four this morning. We're about to have breakfast and a bigger than normal shot of insulin and continue on monitoring.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Sending positive vibes to your doggo

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Thanks guys.

 

[Farm Boy]

Gogo pupper!

 

[Timsup2nothin]

For ease of reference, her name is Gena. She's a mostly Malamute only distinguished from breed by blue eyes that indicate (probably) a Siberian Husky in the woodshed at some point.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Do you have any pictures?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

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• Timsup2nothin
• Oct 22, 2018

She's on the right in the lower picture.

UPDATE: She's at 262 on the two hour mark. That's high, even for her, but not terrible. She ate breakfast with appetite, and got a plus 20% over normal insulin dose so I'm hoping her sugar will bottom out at least somewhere close to the 100 mark that it normally does. If it does then the excess sugar buildup is clear and tomorrow I can start figuring out a new regular dose for her.

 

[The_J]

Pretty pretty .


So, the campus here is 50% STEM, and 50% sports sciences.
But there's no fitness center to go work out on your own on campus .
Also basically everything what is offered by the uni and what I'd like to do is in the middle of the city (or in a different city even), and requires min. 45 minutes by bus.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Pretty pretty .


So, the campus here is 50% STEM, and 50% sports sciences.
But there's no fitness center to go work out on your own on campus .
Also basically everything what is offered by the uni and what I'd like to do is in the middle of the city (or in a different city even), and requires min. 45 minutes by bus.

50% sports sciences and no fitness center? How does that even happen?

 

[The_J]

So there's sports stuff here.
There's a training hall where the do basketball, with a big climbing wall on the back. There are sports fields for soccer. There are specific time slots where you can do cross fit (don't ask me where).
But no freaking normal gym.
I have no idea how this happens .

 

[cardgame]

My speakers are being finicky and cutting out half the audio (left, usually) at almost random intervals. All I gotta do is tweak the wire coming out of the sub box and it works fine again, but it doesn't want to stay stable.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

She's at 262 on the two hour mark. That's high, even for her, but not terrible. She ate breakfast with appetite, and got a plus 20% over normal insulin dose so I'm hoping her sugar will bottom out at least somewhere close to the 100 mark that it normally does. If it does then the excess sugar buildup is clear and tomorrow I can start figuring out a new regular dose for her.

Well, that didn't fully work out. At five hours, which is where she usually bottoms out, she only got down to 212. That's not good enough, but it's too low to risk shooting more insulin off schedule...maybe. So now the question is whether to step up the dose even further with dinner, or to just go again with the 20% above normal.

This is what sucks about caring for a diabetic dog. I can keep her diet and exercise consistent, but a little infection or even a change in the weather can affect her burn rate, and there's no way to tell if the ketone spike was because of an infection that made her burn rate jump really high for a day or two, or if she's just been burning a little high for a week or two, or what. So bringing her sugar back down against an unknown burn rate is like a crap shoot with the highest stakes.

 

[r16]

electric goes of twice in 45 minutes in the webcafe

nothing to check back and it cured power hiccups for sure . But it actually made me miss my rant that ı had missed the coolly cool date of 02-02-2020 by doing nothing worthy of remembering .

 

[MaryKB]

I was browsing on Amazon, and for some reason it recommended a bunch of pregnancy pillows.

I so desperately want to be pregnant. This is killing me.