February 22, 2025

Okay, so first I use some paté.

And I cut the paté
into four portions,

just to make it easier to plop
out just a smallish amount

of the paté because I don't really
want her to have very much food

that she has to clean her plate with
for getting all of the medicine consumed.

So, I only give her a
quarter of a can of paté.

And what I do is
I mash it down flat.

I just realized I set this up
as if I'm a left-handed person

and I'm not, so this will be a little
harder for me to not bump the camera.

So, I mash it down flat,

and then I always keep the--
What's it called? Telmisartan.

I always store it upside down
because it's kinda thicker

because they suspend
it in marshmallow,

so it kinda clings to
the sides of the bottle.

So, you'll find it when I have it,
it's kept upside down in this jar.

That's what I do, is I keep
it upside down in the jar.

And telmisartan she gets 0.5.
Also, I also check the back

and see if there's any air bubbles,
and there kind of is really big

air bubble right up here,
so I'm just gonna push it out.

What I do is I pull down
and I push really fast

and it kinda knocks
the air bubble out.

You can't really see the air
bubble on the video right now.

If you hold it up to the light you can
see there's a really big air bubble.

And the air bubbles in the telmisartan
with the marshmallow suspension

don't really-- I can't really tap
the thing to get them to bubble up.

You just have to use a fast push
and push it back into the bottle.

It's a little bit weird.
Anyways...

Now what I do is I kinda
distribute it in dots all around

just so there's no big
chunk of it anywhere.

She doesn't like the
flavor of the telmisartan--

or it's probably the marshmallow
suspension that she doesn't like.

I don't know what it is,
but this is the one

that's always been hardest
for me to get her to eat.

So, I keep it in little tiny dollops
everywhere and then what I do...

...is I take a tube of Delectables,
and I don't use very much of this,

but I squeeze a little
dollop of it in the middle.

And then I have something
I can ball up around,

so then all these little dots
of telmesartan are going to

kinda come up and stay
separated by the Delectables.

And then I'm going to...

...add a little more because
I can see some white dots

of the telmesartan
around the rim,

so I'm just going to cover them
with some tasty Delectables.

Okay, and then I have some paté--
or some-- Sorry, not paté--

Gravy. I have this Fancy Feast
Naturals in gravy she really likes.

And I'm just gonna
take a little bit of that.

Put it on top, and now I'm
going to add her other food--

Or her other medicine.

And so this is
the methimazole.

The methimazole is much
easier to shake, it's looser.

And the methimazole is 0.25,

so I can pull it back to 0.25.

Actually, I usually pull it further,
and then I hold it upright

and I tap any bubbles out.

Because this one's
bubbles you can tap out.

And then I push it back up--
Oh, there's a lot of bubbles

in there this time.
I think it's getting low.

I'm going to be ordering a
new bottle before we leave,

so then you don't have
one that gets bubbly.

And then I'll push it out to 0.25.

And that is the methimazole.

And this she doesn't mind
the flavor of this as much,

so I just kinda swirl it on
top of the gravy food.

And then I put more
gravy food on top of there.

I'm just going to use
my fingers to make sure

it doesn't fall off the little
mountain of food I've made.

Just cuz that would
defeat the purpose and

I'm just using my fingers to
touch the food, not the medicine.

There you go. And that
is what I give to Blanche,

who is excitedly waiting
to get this right now!