Living with Diabetes

Author: kathleen

  • Product “plug”

    Okay, I have to admit, Accu-Chek got it right with the Multi-Clik. I’ve been using it for a week, and I REALLY REALLY like it. It rarely hurts, and if I did rotate the lancelets every time it probably never would.

    I’m even doing finger testing! I’ve hardly every done finger sticks, because they hurt, and usually do forearm testing, but my forearm is a mess. Looks like needle tracks, and I tend to collect blood there.

    I wish the lancelets were in the Medco formulary, and they probably will be at some point.

    Basically what I do, is try to rotate my lancelets each day. I definately rotate if I have pain when I use the device.

    On the other hand, the Activa meter is just too bulky.

  • Back to normal

    Of course, you have to define normal. But I had a vanilla school day yesterday, and my TDD is down to 30.2 Some good news, is even on the days of the infection, my TDD never got over 45 units. However, the blood sugar was elevated. I probably should have poured on a bit more insulin, but hindsight is always 20-20.

    On the school front, my English for Math classes are really good now that they are a reasonable size. We did a hands-on, scissors and glue activity yesterday, and it went well. We built a graphic organizer, a little square that has flaps. We wrote our coordinate plane vocabulary words on the flaps, and put the definitions inside the flaps, and glued some graph paper inside. On the graph paper, we drew a picture of the words.

    It was fun. They didn’t destroy the room any more than usual, and I got all my supplies back.

    My other classes are still too full, but I’ve found out that the receiving teacher is just as frustrated as I am with the problem. I’m going to start nagging the appropriate powers that be, but have sent little appropriate messages other powers that be.

    I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on how I am handling the new situation — one from my evaluator. He came in last Monday and wasn’t happy with my classroom and had some constructive comments to make. I argued a bit about some of them, but tried them all, and then gave him feedback — all was positive. It obviously pushed his buttons the right way.

    But honestly, if I screw up my job, I honestly feel like I have the capability of ruining a kid’s life. To this day, I abhor a math teacher who told me I couldn’t go into Computer Science because I couldn’t do word problems. Stupid woman, I have always wondered how many students actually listened to her, and ended up unhappy, or at least making less money than they could have.

  • Back to normal

    Of course, you have to define normal. But I had a vanilla school day yesterday, and my TDD is down to 30.2 Some good news, is even on the days of the infection, my TDD never got over 45 units. However, the blood sugar was elevated. I probably should have poured on a bit more insulin, but hindsight is always 20-20.

    On the school front, my English for Math classes are really good now that they are a reasonable size. We did a hands-on, scissors and glue activity yesterday, and it went well. We built a graphic organizer, a little square that has flaps. We wrote our coordinate plane vocabulary words on the flaps, and put the definitions inside the flaps, and glued some graph paper inside. On the graph paper, we drew a picture of the words.

    It was fun. They didn’t destroy the room any more than usual, and I got all my supplies back.

    My other classes are still too full, but I’ve found out that the receiving teacher is just as frustrated as I am with the problem. I’m going to start nagging the appropriate powers that be, but have sent little appropriate messages other powers that be.

    I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on how I am handling the new situation — one from my evaluator. He came in last Monday and wasn’t happy with my classroom and had some constructive comments to make. I argued a bit about some of them, but tried them all, and then gave him feedback — all was positive. It obviously pushed his buttons the right way.

    But honestly, if I screw up my job, I honestly feel like I have the capability of ruining a kid’s life. To this day, I abhor a math teacher who told me I couldn’t go into Computer Science because I couldn’t do word problems. Stupid woman, I have always wondered how many students actually listened to her, and ended up unhappy, or at least making less money than they could have.

  • Agility

    The girls really spoiled me yesterday.

    So far, we’ve had two nice runs today – but since they were excellent runs — we didn’t get any where.

    Yesterday I ran into a lady who took an obedience class from me years ago, who teaches in the next building. When I told her where and what I was teaching, she asked if the former principal was trying to get rid of me. Seems that when that principal was at her school the same thing was done to her. She left me wiith this — it took a year, but she’s now where she belongs was before it all started..

  • Agility

    The girls really spoiled me yesterday.

    So far, we’ve had two nice runs today – but since they were excellent runs — we didn’t get any where.

    Yesterday I ran into a lady who took an obedience class from me years ago, who teaches in the next building. When I told her where and what I was teaching, she asked if the former principal was trying to get rid of me. Seems that when that principal was at her school the same thing was done to her. She left me wiith this — it took a year, but she’s now where she belongs was before it all started..

  • Putting TOO much faith in technology.

    I may have screwed up. I just noticed while at the line that Marcie was entered in Excellent JWW A and not B.

    Just as we were going in the ring.

    It is probably my mistake.

    It’s because I put a little too much faith in technology and didnLt check well enough.

  • Good Agility Day!

    We Q’d 3 times out of 4. NOT bad. And the nonQing run wasn’t bad either — Maggie forgot to bring her beagle brains, but found them up after the weaves.

    I suspect I know what happened with Marcie’s entry. I’m not the only one at the trial who had their dog in the wrong class.

    This trial opened before the trial that Marcie Qed at, and I just flat forgot to move her up, or check the confirmations carefully enough. The sad part, is that we need 10 Q’s for our next title. Oh well….

    I moved up both Marcie and Maggie, so they will be running the right classes.

    So tomorrow, I’m doing Excellent B JWW, Excellent A Standard, Open Standard and Novice JWW. Maggie has one JWW leg so far and Marcie has one Standard leg.

    It sure is nice when Maggie is good. It’s funny, but every single time I’ve had her in the ring, she was just wild. I couldn’t get a stay out of her at all. That even happened during the JWW run today, but she was just as calm as could be going into the Standard ring today, and I even had a stay at the line! That’s new for us.

    I physically feel better. Abcess isn’t bothering me, blood sugar is where it should be, though I was raveously hungry this evening. I’m going to bed as soon as I’ve digested some of the food.

  • Putting TOO much faith in technology.

    I may have screwed up. I just noticed while at the line that Marcie was entered in Excellent JWW A and not B.

    Just as we were going in the ring.

    It is probably my mistake.

    It’s because I put a little too much faith in technology and didnLt check well enough.

  • Doing okay

    Very stressful week. Last night was parent conferences, which I have almost survived — I have to get through today.

    The abcess has not bothered me since the doctor cleaned it up and drained it. I’m still doing antibotics.

    The good news, is that I am actually tired and falling asleep naturally around 10:30 lately. I still stay up to late and fight that, but at least I am getting there.

    I haven’t been thinking about losing weight this week and having been doing the treadmill thing. I am still having some hip pain, and I didn’t want to aggrevate the abcess. The good news, is that my weight is staying steady.

    I’m going to get back on a workout schedule next week.

    The beagles and I have an agility trial this weekend. I am hopeful that we will do better since it is colder. Neither dog was happy with the heat last weekend. Nor was I!

    My blood sugar is still running a bit higher than I like but was stabilizing yesterday. I think getting on the treadmill will help that.

  • Really good article on dog training

    I really like Jon Katz’s articles, and this one is top on my list. Too many people ascribe human emotions, etc. to dogs. And it always gets in the way of finding a solution.

    Do Dogs Think? – Owners assume their pet’s brain works like their own. That’s a big mistake. By Jon Katz

    Owners assume their pet’s brain works like their own. That’s a big mistake.