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Gunther Update

Once again, it would seem that the Adjacency Principal works for me... I took Gunther to the vet yesterday. The new vet. And I like him. A lot. He is attractive a much more relaxed approach to treating Gunther's diabetes. No glucose curves (as he said, it is too stressful for the dog and for the P), testing with urine-strips, not a blood glucose monitor. This matches my ideas on this what really happened exactly. Gunther is a senior dog and I do NOT want his last months or years to be filled with needle pricks and many overnight stays at the vet's. I don't be versed how long he will be able to hang out with us, but I don't want it to be miserable for any of us. I results this afternoon to learn how to give him a shot and then we are off and running.

We are using Novolin-N insulin, 30 guage syringes (by the by - one needs a prescription in NJ for syringes but NOT for insulin. Fascintating) and Keto-diastix. I have managed to find some well-mannered deals online for the syringes and the testing strips. So it will be objective under $4 per day to treat Gunther's diabetes; two shots - one urine test.

We spilt his aliment into two servings, he gets one third in the morning and the remaining two thirds in the evening. He is allowed to have protein snacks through out the day. He can even have a scanty peanut butter if we buy him the natural peanut butter - the other has too much sugar.

To aid track everything I downloaded a program called Diabetes Logbook X...

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