[NAGDU] Testing blood sugar.

[Cindy Ray]

Well, I think there is something, but the reason we passed the resolution
about medical technology concerning ciabetes care and then the medical bill
of rights is that the technology is woefully inadequate. I can see what I
can learn about this from my friend, Sandi.
Cindy Lou Ray
cindyray at gmail.com


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Subject: [NAGDU] Testing blood sugar.

Yes this is dog-related.  My almost 15 year old retired dog, Mill'E, has
recently had some behavior changes.  Mostly tired, later in the day, so much
so that she doesn't want to go outside. When we removed her spleen in
September because of a baseball sized lump she was in kidney failure so I
went to the vet thinking the worse was about to happen.  
Only it turned out, that because of the diet I put her on, we have been able
to reverse and control the kidney disease to the degree that the only
indicator was a BUN 2 points above high. Her creatinine tested totally
normal, which was awesome and made me feel super excited about her diet. But
the behavior issues remain the same.  What is the issue is that she seems
unable to keep her blood sugar up and it came back in the 60's each time it
was tested.  
So I'm going to feed her smaller meals during the day instead of one big
breakfast.  Which is a holdover from when she was eating strictly raw meaty
bones because I like my dogs to have large pieces of prey.  But since she is
eating a kidney diet and no bones that's not an issue. 
However I think I'd like to be able to test her blood sugar at home to make
sure she's getting enough and just for my own need to be a control freak so
I know what times to feed and how far I should space things.  
You can use the same units for dogs that you do for people.  I know they
have talking glucometers but I'm deafblind so that is not helpful.  What I'm
looking for is one that will do bluetooth and connect with my iPhone so I
can read the testing on my braille display.  
Does anyone use something like this? 
Thanks for any help and sorry for the weird question. 

 Rox and the kitchen Bitches: 
Mill'E, Laveau, Soleil
Pawpower4me at gmail.com
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