{"id":67,"date":"2015-07-03T18:08:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T18:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/more-on-omg-i-killed-my-insulin-pump\/"},"modified":"2015-07-03T18:08:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T18:08:43","slug":"more-on-omg-i-killed-my-insulin-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/more-on-omg-i-killed-my-insulin-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"More on OMG I killed my insulin pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talked with the doctor, saw what @shanselman had to say and decided to go with short acting insulin only.&#0160; Here&#39;s why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lantus prescription costs about&#0160;$153.00&#0160;<\/li>\n<li>I have used long acting insulin&#0160;for a year, and it sucked.&#0160; It was Lily 70\/30 insulin and&#0160;it always had an uneven release causing&#0160;roller coaster highs and lows.<\/li>\n<li>It&#39;s only until Monday morning.&#0160; I can wake up every&#0160;four hours&#0160;to take another&#0160;shot for three days, especially since I don&#39;t have to report to a job with other humans.<\/li>\n<li>&#0160;I have a diabetes alert dog that won&#39;t let me get into trouble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the doctor sent me instructions based on my pump settings.&#0160; I&#39;ve put those settings in a OneNote page, and as I said earlier,&#0160;I&#39;m tracking what I am doing with that One Note page.&#0160; Probably will keep everything on one page.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve been pumping insulin since 2004.&#0160; This is the first pump I&#39;ve killed by my actions and the first time I&#39;ve had to go back to shots.&#0160; I have been using insulin since 2002.&#0160; I think I can do the 4 days and the Lantus is sitting in the pharmacy fridge.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, my Walgreens was out of pen needles, they should get a box of needles with each box of pens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked with the doctor, saw what @shanselman had to say and decided to go with short acting insulin only.&#0160; Here&#39;s why: The Lantus prescription costs about&#0160;$153.00&#0160; I have used long acting insulin&#0160;for a year, and it sucked.&#0160; It was Lily 70\/30 insulin and&#0160;it always had an uneven release causing&#0160;roller coaster highs and lows. It&#39;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/beagles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}