Re: Stuck myself with the cat's lancet

"Richard Evans" <infodex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>"Julie Bove" <juliebove@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Richard Evans" <infodex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> The cat and I are both diabetic. I check my own sugar 6-8 times per
>>>> day, I check his twice. We have separate glucometer kits. Today,
while
>>>> preparing to check the cat's sugar, I had a brain fart and instead of
>>>> lancing the cat I lanced my own forearm with a lancet that had been
>>>> previously used on the cat.
>>>>
>>>> I immediately rinsed it with alcohol, but what are the chances I
>>>> caught anything from the incident?
>>>
>>> Oh wow!  I don't know what the chances are, but how in the heck do you
>>> lancet a cat?  I know mine would never sit still for it and would
lancet
>>> me with her teeth and claws if I tried it.
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>>They take the blood from the ears.
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> That's the short answer. The longer answer: It takes two of us to do
> it. My wife holds him firmly. I massage his ear from the base towards
> the tip to force blood to the edge of the year. I then insert my thumb
> with the nail backing the ear, and poke near the edge with the lancet.
> I'm getting so I can get blood on the first try most of the time. I
> would not be able to do it unassisted.
>
> Google on anything to do with diabetic cats or checking cat's sugar.
> There are lots of good sites describing alternate procdures.

Wow.  Maui had some excess ear wax and she wouldn't let me take that out. 
When she was a kitten, she had ear mites.  I got scratched to pieces
trying 
to put the drops in her ears.  The vet finally gave her a shot that was 
intended for a dog.  Knocked the mites right out and she has never had a 
problem since.  Not with that anyway...