Thank you, Mika!

I had a small early lunch yesterday (it's past midnight, so yeah, yesterday). In the evening before Mika's daddy got home, I got tired and took a nap with the TV on. Just a note, I'm not diabetic (I just had a full blood panel done not long ago to make sure I'm still good and everything is functioning properly.), but if I haven't eaten in a while, my blood sugar gets real low and I get the shakes.

I remember looking at the time before I fell asleep and it was around 1730. Right before it was 1900 (around 1845), Mika had started whining, pawing at the closed dog door, and at one point, he had stuck his cold nose on my hand and wouldn't move. I had let Mika out to do his business around 1700, so I knew he was still good. I thought Mika just wanted attention, so I shooed him away and told him to go to his bed. I heard him go towards the direction of his bed and then a few seconds later, he was back up and walking towards me and whining. This time, was when he came up to the couch where I was laying and stuck his cold wet nose on my hand. His nose did not move, but his eyes were looking at me. I opened my eyes to look at him and asked him what was wrong. He still didn't move. Then I pulled my hand away and Mika just got closer to my face whining again, so I thought, "Wow, Mika must have drank a ton of water when I was sleeping."

So I got up and then I realized, my sugar level was low, I was light headed, had trouble focusing, and my hands were shaking. I needed sugar. (The thing was, when I was laying down, I felt fine. I was groggy because I just woke up, but I didn't feel like there was anything wrong.) Once I got up and headed towards the kitchen, Mika followed me as if to watch. Luckily, I had a bag of gummies out, so I had some of those and Mika calmed down. I opened the door for him to go outside, but he just looked back at me. It wasn't until after looking at me for a while that he was satisfied that I was ok, then he went outside, peed real fast, then came back inside.

Thank you, Mika for waking me up and letting me know that I needed sugar. If I didn't get that sugar, by the time that Mika's daddy got home, I would feel really sick and nauseated, and I'd want to just sleep it off. Then Mika's daddy would be making me eat something and I'd need to make sure I didn't eat too much or else it'd make me more sick. It's just a pattern of yuck. He knows my eating (or should I say non eating) pattern, especially if I'm stressed about something, I eat very little or not at all because I forget to. (I know, not a good habit, but I have two boys to remind me. One has a curly tail.) Thank you, Mika again.

It's so intriguing how in tune Mika is with people. I noticed that when I was on my period and I would be in pain, he would stick by me. When Nami's daddy was out with gout, Mika was glued to him. When my godmother had her surgery and was recovering, Mika was glued to her too. I knew Mika has a 6th sense, but I didn't know he could sense my sugar level dropping so low.