jeanonlyone - If your daughter is over the age of five, you could teach her what to do for the cat. My vet carries a thing called a piller which allows you to give a cat a pill by yourself with one hand, hold the cat with the other hand. I know this is going to sound weird, but was your husband a big Pat Martino fan? I just noticed the name Yoshi - very different - I like it. Also, ask the vet if the med is available in liquid. One of our cats was just put on a course of antibiotics that are administered by dropper. My daughter can do that. I think we tend to underestimate, or maybe the kids "play dumb" so that the adults do it all, but I have learned by teaching my child age appropriately, of course, to do things that would normally be done by adults - nothing crazy, but I think if your daughter is old enough, why not try to teach her. I think if you can teach her she will be interested enough and therefore responsible for the care and treatment of the illness. I feel badly for you all in this situation. It is tough enough but when you are trying to care for a cat that doesn't live with you... Can the kitty stay with you for any length of time if your daughter isn't old enough, if the explanation of kitty needs certain care? These are the only two things I can think of. Good luck and please post how Lily is doing with Yoshi's care if you can teach her how to do it.

To clarify a bit, the technical term for the "duty cycle" is "Pulse Width Modulation." It is also the way most microwave ovens work. At any setting below full power, the heating power is switched on and off with the amount of "on" time and off "time" being averaged to approximate a selected level of heat. The boil-stop-boil-stop results from the use of low-frequency switching electronics in many portable induction cooktops (PICs) and some induction ranges and built-in cooktops. That is, the power is switched on for a second or two, then off for a few seconds, then back on for a second or two, then off for several more seconds. More sophisticated PICs and many built in cooktops and induction ranges avoid noticable pulsing with electronics that switch the burner power on and off many times each second. My personal experience with browning butter in a thick bottomed pan (cast iron) on an inexpensive PIC was rather mixed. This was some years ago and was tried with a ten-inch cast iron pan on some less expensive PICs (a Duxtop/Secura model and a Max Burton one). Basically, it was problemmatic when working with smaller quantities (say, half a stick of butter) and sort-of okay with two or three sticks provided I took a long time to preheat the CI pan. Might have been different if I'd had a smaller cast iron sauce pan, but I doubt it. Like metlmann, I just found it easier to use a burner on a gas stove for that task and moved on after several less than satisfying experiments with the inexpensive PICs. FWIW, I recently easily browned a small quantity of butter in an ordinary small saucepan on a Vollrath commercial PIC unit. The Vollrath does not seem to have the pulsing problem on anything I've used it for.

I like the Mayhem commercials, too. The guy reminds me of a kid I went to school with. There was a picante sauce commercial that I liked. A bunch of cowboys around a chuck-wagon asked for more picante sauce. One cowboy checked the jar and said it was made in New York City; the cowboy that deadpans the camera, and says, "Get a rope," reminds me of my brother. Just after my husband passed away, Lowe's had a commercial that I loved, but it also made me sad. It was a young couple, who remodeled their home as they aged, and ended up dancing together as senior citizens. Along that line, my current favorite is the older lady who walks up behind a young woman at the grocery store, and says something like, "Muscle rub cream! Honey, you smell just like my Walter always did!" Voice-over advertising the product, and the camera cuts back to the lady hugging the young woman from behind, snuggling her shoulder. :)

A few suggestions if you do not already have one. For most people just a basic one is all that is needed. For someone who is actively being monitored by a doctor or who does a lot of physical activity it might be good to talk to your doctor. Some would like to know what your levels are over a span of time. While you can write the numbers down it is easier to forget to take that list with you or if someone takes you they may not know where it is. Some of the ones have phone apps that the information can be transferred to. I have seen above where a phone has an app but not certain how a phone would connect to your body to make a reading. I would think you would still need another appliance for the app to be functional.