I just gave Holly her first shot of insulin

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I hope I did it right. Yesterday, the vet tech showed me how and I busted out crying saying I was going to do it wrong, she was going to die and it'll be all my fault. I was so embarrassed. I think the stress of seeing her act so strangely and not knowing what was going on and being so scared and worried just caught up with me all at once.

Anyway, she gets the insulin after she eats and since it's impossible to know when she's eaten, I put her in my office in the basement. She likes to hang in that room. I put in a nice, clean new litter box, some fresh water and per the vet tech's instructions, 1/4 cup veterinary dry food mixed with a teaspoon of veterinary wet food. When I first showed her where the food and water is, Holly just kept walking around in circles. The tech said to check every 10 minutes to see if she's eaten it. After about 15 minutes, she'd eaten about half so I hope that was enough.

The insulin was another story. The bottle looked different than the one in the tech's office. I was trying to put the needle in through the cap! The cap was hard to get off and impossible to get back on, so I just put the bottle back in the carton without the cap. I got the dosage and flicked the syringe to get rid of the air bubble and got paranoid I didn't get it right, so I did it four more times. The dosage is very small and it's hard to see if it's even in there. I finally gave it to Holly and I hope I did it right and I hope I gain more confidence as we go along.

I filled her prescription at Costco and that was a whole other fiasco, not to mention that the place was packed with people no doubt getting ready for the holiday weekend. I assume a lot of people got today off; I know I always did when the 4th fell on the weekend. I don't do well in crowds to begin with and I was stressed out about Holly on top of it.