Living with Diabetes

Author: kathleen

  • A neat new program

    Diabetes Heroes

    Animas Corporation? and Nicole Johnson Baker want to know all about your diabetes hero!

  • DLife

    I’m still not impressed though. So far, we’ve seen 4 episodes.

    Treatment Program To Watch

    In the family of former relationship talk show host JoAnne Hart-Rogers, more popularly known as Mother Love, diabetes was lightheartedly downplayed as “just a little sugar.” But after her diagnosis with the disease in 1990, the woman known for making audiences laugh knew it was time to pay attention. “I decided I didn’t want to be dead,” she said.

  • Omnipod Specs

    Products / Product Specifications – Insulet Corporation

    Here’s the new insulin pump specifications. Right now, I can’t see the advantage.

    I would agree that tubing is a pain in the rear. On the other hand, the most sensitive and most hard to design part of the whole pump happens to be the set. I misinsert at least 2 times a month. Yesterday was the last time I screwed up, I was in a hurry and didn’t wait until my skin was dry.

    I really don’t see it working that well for a Type 2 since it holds only 200 units. I also can’t see that the unit that goes on the body is much smaller than the current Animas pump. Let’s face it, the Omni pod has to be big enough to hold a AAA battery + 200 units of insulin. That’s a big lump. In fact, it has to be at least as large as the Animas 1250.

    It’s also got to be waterproof and adhere to the skin.

    The PDM looks interesting though and the fact that it works with the Freestyle.

  • Star Wars

    My husband and I finally got to this — he hates crowds, so no way was he going this weekend. There were NO crowds tonight.

    It was a good movie and since we all know how it ends, I won’t tell anything else — I kept fussing over the reviewers for doing that.

    My dad took me to the first Star Wars. I was still in high school and we weren’t allowed to go to PG movies by ourself. Trust me, I saw it a bunch of times after that.

    I saw the second one with my dad too — he got WAY too much enjoyment out of the first, not to go with him for the first.

    He wasn’t able to go to the 3rd, he was too sick then, but I brought him home stuff from the theater.

    Anyway — this is a bit diabetes related — I don’t get to use this feature often, but did tonight. My pump went off 2 hours after the popcorn to tell me to check my blood sugar, and I was able to test in the theater and correct due to the backlights on both Flash and pump.

    I really like that feature of the Flash.

  • Still too much

    I dropped my bolus rates again, and they are still a bit too low. While I didn’t crash, I definately had a few moments of hypoglycema. I’d already done a few carbs after working out, but not many, and tested at 88. It was after testing I felt the low though. It was over fast at least.

  • Trying to Decide If I want this

    I’ve been using my Treadmill faithfully since I got it, and I have an exercise ball and free weights.

    I’m thinking about adding this to my home gym:

    The Sports Authority – Exercise: Home Gyms: Weider MAX Resistance System Gym

    I need to spend some more time on it, but I like the price, delivery and installation is $169 more.

  • Nice Morning…

    I love Sunday mornings, when we aren’t showing in agility, because I take things at a REAL slow pace.

    Today I got my workout down, and then jumped into the pool. It is SO nice for it to finally be warm enough to use.

    I “cheated” abit, I ran completely out of insulin at about 10:00, so I just pulled my pump off and set and went without for an 1 1/2 hours.

    My blood sugar has gone up about 5 points, but I think the correction I just put in, and the workout will get it back down.

    What’s even better — Sunday is my day to do lesson plans and there aren’t any to do!

  • CNN Transcript from Larry King show

    CNN.com – Transcripts

    CNN LARRY KING LIVE
    Panel Discusses Diabetes

    I really think that all the diabetes bloggers should read this, since there are some very rational discussions of the current issues in diabetes.

    Dr. Peters expresses her opinion on upcoming cures, especially stem cell research. They also express their opinions on “forbidden” foods, especially sugar.

    Couple of interesting things to note: I had not idea that Nicole Baker was a paid spokeswoman for Animas — (it’s misspelled in the transcript). I think they should fix that.

  • Apparently I finally got the blood sugar thing fixed

    I’m still having to drop basal’s, etc. I’m also still not where I was before the change to Apidra and the recent stress attack.

    BUT my insulin usage is slowly creeping down, working out is easier, doing everything is easier, but I still am not sleeping through the night, and my energy level is low.

    The good news, is that yesterday was our last full day. We’ve got four days of exams, then a checkout day on Friday.

    I don’t start my next round of classes until June 6, though I am looking forward to that.

  • Swimming and other exercise thoughts.

    Big yeah, the pool is finally warm enough to swim in — I spent a few minutes in it earlier today, and am planning to go back in a few minutes now that I have a swim cap. One thing I don’t like about the pool is that I have long hair and I spent the summer with it damp.

    I went to Sports Authority to get my swim cap and I checked out the weight machines while I was at it. I’m thinking seriously of getting a BowFlex, but I can’t decide which one or where to get it.

    What I really like about the Boxflex, is that it is like my treadmill and the bed in the study — it folds up out of the way. I really like the idea of having everything in that room with the ability to fold up and move.

    If someone needs the bedroom, I just fold up the treadmill and move it, I can even move it to the living room so I can keep exercising while we have visitors.

    I know it is something I’ll use, I use the treadmill at least 6 days a week, and use my free weights at least every other day. And it’s certainly WORTH the money, so I suspect I’ll probably go back and order one to be delivered either next Friday afternoon, or the week after.