Diabetic Cats- Cat Bed

There is nothing worse then having a diabetic cat and finding you left the insulin out.  NOTHING. The knowledge that you just wasted $100 on a vial of Prozinc is awful.   I came home from going out to dinner tonight to find that the insulin was still on the counter.  Luckily it was only out two hours in the dark so I'm hoping that it is still a good vial.  The only way to know is to take glucose measurements tomorrow and just hope they go down.  It's the first time we have only left the insulin out a few hours rather then 12 hours so I'm really hoping it's good.  Plus it was still foggy inside the liquid which I guess is a sign it's still good. I've looked all over the internet whether or not Prozinc can be left out for 2 hours and most say yes.  I saw several comments saying that it's OK to leave it out even for 12 hours.  I have found that this is false.  Anytime we've left insulin out for 12 hours and checked glucose on our cats their glucose numbers are super high and it's obvious the insulin wasn't working anymore. 

I recently had to waste money taking Pippin into the vet.  The new vet wanted to "see" him (get $60 and blood work) since his glucose was a little higher then usual.  My old vet would just adjust insulin amounts... so that kind of sucked.  Then she wanted to put him on an antibiotic just incase but I didn't pick that up because he's fine just needed a insulin adjustment. So complicated.

We sold our house so we've been staying with a friend until we get a new one.  Pippin has done well.  He has the run of two bedrooms and one bathroom.  My friend has two cats of his own and Pippin just doesn't want to mingle with them.  So he's enjoying his time upstairs in his own territory. Though I know he's ready to get into his own house again. 

We have still been buying our needles and food online.  Much cheaper then the store.  Diabetes hasn't got any easier but Pippin is still doing well and hopefully lives another 5 years. We bought him a new bed finally.  All these years he and Merry slept in these tiny circle beds we bought them when we first adopted them.  I bought them a bigger bed once before but they completely ignored it.  I was then in Petsmart and saw a superhero section (for dogs) and there was a Superman bed! I bought it and he ignored it at first.  For a long time actually and now I can't get him out.  Since we are staying in our friend's house we had Pippin's bed and food next to each other.  This picture shows him not even bothering to get out of bed to eat.  He's just leaning over to his food bowl.. so lazy!!