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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>>"Paul M. Cook" <pmcook@[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.
>>>
>>> They take the blood from the ears.
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>>That's what somebody else told me.  But wouldn't that pierce the ears?
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> Depends on how deep you set the injector.
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>>The  other guy said he never tests his cat at home but takes the cat to 
>>the vet
>>every couple of months for a test.
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> Our old guy is quite brittle now and we test (and inject insulin)
> twice a day. We are hoping to get him stabilized soon so we don't have
> to test so often, but a couple of weeks ago we gave him his nighttime
> shot without testing and he nearly died. The next morning he was
> unconscious and his BG was 20. He was within an hour of being
> euthanized, but he rallied, so we keep on keeping on.

Oh *sniff* the poor thing!