Living with Diabetes

Author: kathleen

  • The last year…

    I’m a bit late in this …

    I’ve had my insulin pump for 1 1/2 years, and I’ve had my treadmill for about a year.

    I lost about 30 pounds in the last year, my A1C has dropped from 7.0 to a low of 6.2, and last was 6.6

    I got my pump in August, and in September my husband broke his hip in September. He was on crutches and in bad shape until December.

    I was doing an okay job with working out while I had a gym membership, but didn’t get REALLY good at it until I set up the gym in the house with a treadmill and free weights.

    I signed up with iShape back in February. iShape has been invaluable in helping me keep up with an exercise program.

    A few more milestones

    went from 1.5 mph on the treadmill to 2.5
    insulin usage from 100-120 units a day to 40-50 units

  • Personal Challenge Day 7

    Today is
    CE 5/8
    CT 6/10
    ST 5/8

    I was 200 calories over iShapes plan again. Still less calories than I burned by a substantial amount.

    I am losing weight though.

  • Last few hours have been interesting…

    For some reason, not sure why, one of my computers have stopped booting. It appears that the system drive on that computer has gone south.

    So I reloaded Windows on it, and when I was trying to recover, my fastest computer lost it’s operating system too. Neither computer has anything on it that can’t be recovered — I keep all my data either on my servers or on my file server — though I DO need to remember to back all that data up soon.

    Very weird.

    And then when I woke up, my set was disconnected (from my insulin pump), so right now I’m not getting any insulin.

    It can’t be too long because my blood sugar is 117.

    I hate to put it back until I’ve had a shower, and I don’t want to do a shower until I’ve done my workout, so I think I’ll go a little while off pump and maybe do an injection if I need it.

    Weird …

    I did sleep until I naturally woke up, in fact, woke up twice and went back to bed, but think I’m going to stay up now. Hopefully I’ll get my sleep fixed since I was running short last week.

    And finally — husband is going to book our trip this weekend, so I am DEFINATELY going to Monte Carlo in March.

  • Personal Challenge Day 6

    Today is
    CE 5/8
    CT 5/10
    ST 4/8

    I’ve been very tired today, and ended up about 300 calories over plan which isn’t too bad. I did plan for a few days not Clean Eating

  • Personal Challenge Day 5

    Today is
    CE 5/8
    CT 4/10
    ST 3/8

    Got a good night’s sleep last night, and am heading to bed now, but I’ve done two hours of dog agility and then drove through very high traffic roads to get home. Hard to fall asleep with this much adrenalin running through the system.

    I’ve on a good streak when it comes to weight loss. The blood sugar is low, and extremely stable. My insulin usage is down pretty low, though was a tad high today. In fact, have had to ward off (but not treat) some hypoglycemic episodes.

    Warding off means that I have the first symthoms of a drop in blood sugar, and that I have to shift meal times or eat extra to prevent a true low.

  • Animas has a new pump!

    I just wrote my rep and asked about it. I am definately going to go with it. From the FDA information it appears they are going to put a larger cartridge in it and TD, going to put a food database in it.

    You are also going to be able to program the pump with it.

    510(k)s Final Decisions Rendered for December 2004

    DEVICE: ANIMAS MODEL IR1250 INSULIN INFUSION PUMP
    ANIMAS CORP. 510(k) NO: K042873(TRADITIONAL)
    ATTN: THOMAS L PARKER PHONE NO : 484-568-1257
    200 LAWRENCE DR. SE DECISION MADE: 10-DEC-04
    WEST CHESTER, PA 19380 510(k) SUMMARY AVAILABLE FROM FDA

  • Personal Challenge Day 4

    Today is
    CE 4/8
    CT 4/10
    ST 2/8

    My husband and I are spending WAY too much time talking about the Monte Carlo trip. We keep not sleeping as a result.

  • Medco is TOTALLY fubarring things!

    It’s sad because Medco hasn’t gotten a single prescription wrong in a year, and all of a sudden they are screwing up.

    First, I went to the eye doctor and asked for a 90 day script on Restatis. He supposedly faxed it to Medco and they filled it as a 30 day script but charged me the 30 day price. NOW, their pharmacists knew that was a screw up and should have followed up on it — IF he wrote that way.

    The almost good news is they are charging me the 30 day price.

    Second screw up — I ordered two scripts at once, which needed to be refilled by the doctor’s office. I don’t know if the doctor didn’t understand their form, or if they fouled it up on there in, but only one of the scripts is being filled. And it’s a blood pressure, generic, that costs very little, heck it would be a good candidate for over the counter.

    ARGH!

  • Monte Carlo

    Looks like I am going to Monte Carlo for spring break. Not exactly my first or even second choice, but my husband won a poker tournament through Poker Stars that is sponsoring him to play in the european equivalent to the World Series of Poker.

    I have a bunch of issues, like power adapters for my CPAP, can I use it on the airline, etc.

  • CPAP and airlines

    Interesting website on using a CPAP on a airline … why, next post.

    CPAP, Batteries, and Airplanes

    CPAP, Batteries, and Airplanes