Author: kathleen

Man, I woke up hurting, I’m predicting my heel spurs will be back and bothering me on Saturday, if not tomorrow.

By the way, since the challenge ended, and everyone started stressing me out at work, I’ve decided not to worry about my food. It’s been a good decision, and my weight is staying stable.

I’m not logging food until I get back from Monte Carlo. And I will probably not do my strength exercises while I am gone, but I’m going to try to do as much cardio as I can.

I’m exhausted. But doing okay. I’m trying very hard not to fall in a common teacher trap, which is to tell yourself you’ve been on your feet all day, not exercise, and lose fitness level. That’s one thing they warned us about in teaching training.

I ran 7 classes of students through my computer lab today, doing a career activity. My kids were off with a sub doing a written activity. Don’t ask.

The planner forgot I wasn’t getting a planning period — will get one tomorrow at least. I don’t know if I get one Friday or not. It was a definite, all day on your feet job. I go through this at the beginning of each year, but by now, the most I have to tell my kids is to reboot when their computers act up. With these kids, I had to help them get logged on again and to the right website, so it was hard.

I still came home and did my 35 minutes on the treadmill but my feet heard so bad, I had to do it 4 minutes at a time.

I’ve had the IR1250 now for a week. My blood sugars are a lot more stable — which is especially nice as I have had quite a few things come up this week that DO effect blood sugar.

For example, I had a meeting that delivered some very stressful news. I ended up with a temp basal of 10% part of the day, that wasn’t working so I went to a 20% basal.

Things I like about the pump — being able to upload and download data from it. I’ve been messing with the settings this week, and it’s a lot easier.

Cartridge size is working for me. Oh, and debubbling the cartridge is going very well too. I do believe I had bubbles every cartridge change with the old pump.

If you have an IR1000, you definately want to go to the IR1250.

I went to the Diabetes Expo today and got to meet my pump trainer. Also got to tell a few people how thrilled I was with Animas and their products.

It was very nice to finally put a face to the voice on the end of the phone line.