Don't want to jinx what's been going on....

but there's something happening the last five days. (FIVE days, can you imagine?) I have no explanation for any of it. My mystification came to a head last night when, at +21, he finally got up to 100 again. He hadn't had any insulin the whole day. My previous experience had usually been that, the longer the duration, the less likely it was that the standard amount of insulin would be able to keep his level down. So, although I considered waiting for him to get another 20 points or so higher, I shot him. Thank goodness I didn't decide to increase the 1u that he has been getting; I was up most of the night as it was...... It appears that, even if he's going up when I test him, there's a certain - unspecified, of course - point where it does NOT take four hours for the Levemir to kick in. Last night was the second time in the last few days when he had dropped significantly by +2. (I do get really tired of all the guessing.) I have no idea how to decide when that might happen, or even if it will. He's not particularly interested in eating now, either, which makes me more nervous about the numbers he's been getting; I do NOT want to get stuck with him dropping and refusing to eat at the same time. Even his favorite Sliced Beef with Gravy Fancy Feast didn't get eaten last night. I did smear a fingertip full of Laxatone on his gums around the +2.5 feeding, just in case. I don't know where we're going with this, or why. And if it's the insulin getting stronger because it's nearing the end of the cartridge, what does that mean? What'll happen when I start a new cartridge? What was that old song - "How Do You Keep 'Em Down On The Farm, Now That They've Seen Paree"? God, I'm SO old.

Assuming that there's some obscure reason for the sudden appearance of good numbers, and adding in how things usually go, I am not expecting that this can last. But wouldn't it be nice?