Author: kathleen

Yesterday's encounter was a clear case of bullying — it wasn't another stupid person encounter.

I am still ashamed that I didn't stand my ground, but collapsed under the pressure of other bullys.  This is something I didn't see at the time, having suffered one nasty low already that day – is when someone is bullied and other people stand by and let the bullying occur, they are bullying too.

Especially when it is people who know you.  Though I think that bullying among acquaintances is more common than bullying total strangers.

Sadly that community promotes bullying — it's odd because many of them have been bullied all their lives, that they continue to promote bullying.

I suspect that the couple in question were both afraid of dogs.  I get that.  Again, the dog was being quiet, staying close to me in the crowd, though alerting her butt off.

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I am attending a convention, we had a social event in the bar and grill.

Man comes up to me and wants me to move because his wife is allergic to dogs.

Now this comes after I have gone low.

My answer, no, I don't have to move, my life or death situation trumps your wife's allergy. Besides the only way a dog allergy becomes life threatening would be if you actually inhaled large quantities of dander.

He keeps pushing, I keep staying his face and getting more agitated. Unfortunately an acquaintance decides to wrongly intervene and I do end up moving.

I was actually looking for the manager who helped me get out of trouble.

By the way who has a networking event without food? I had even asked and was told there was food there.

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I'm not perfect by any means, but I am checking my blood sugar more, I'm waking up to a lower blood sugar (not always good for swimming) and I think I can continue the trend.

Though it's been a rough week medically and insurance wise.

Optimux RX will make me welcome Express Scripts in January. 

In fact, I'm about where I was a year ago.

This last year has been stressful.  I was doing pretty good with the job, until the end when they started laying people off.  Then husband had to have surgery and I saw a pretty constant weight gain through that, but it was all I could do.  Now that weight is off, and my body and mind is back in losing mood.

We have a new pool, and they got us a good fitness instructor, and I'm working on building up my swimming.  I am also trying to combine weight training and biking in the gym with the swimming.  However, lows swimming scare me.

I tried my new routine today but it didn't work out.

I went off pump when I woke up, did Johns Hopkins work and drank a Muscle Milk. 
Did weights at Planet Fitness, and even did a few minutes on the massage chair.

I only managed 6 laps at the pool and Dulce started to alert.  But they were a good six laps.

I also took my time at it, so I was off insulin for a while.

I got an email from my doctor's online service telling me I had email, so I checked and they had issued 90 day prescriptions for my medications.

Then I went to the OptumRX website and I was being charged over $900 for two 90-day prescriptions.  Really? Really?

This is worse than anything Express Scripts has done.  Seems that they were using my old UHC account, not my husband's UHC account where I am a dependent. 

Fortunately they are open for customer service issues at 11:00 pm and I am hoping I have it straightened out.  Instead of merging my web account, as I want to make sure they don't bill me again on the web account, I opened a second account.

Unfortunately the website says they are still processing that order.

I just found out that I have to take my Innokana and Vytorin coupons in each time I refill them.

Freaking annoying.

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Apparently they have known this for a while, but have been trying to keep it from happening.

UHC has their own mail order service, ships out every 90 days, so you know it won't be packaged up by day.  They won't cover PillPack because of the competition to their service I'm am sure.

Yes, I broke down and am using their service — and their first representative told me I could ONLY use Walgreens and Walmart, I supposed because they are less than a mile from my house.  OR their mail service.

This means work for all three doctors, sleep, endo and primary care.

ARGH!

On a lesser note, so far they have covered all of my husband's surgery BUT one doctor who saw him at Baylor and the last week of BIR.  They are claiming both are out of network and not covered.

Can't see why the last week of BIR would be out of network when they covered the rest AND he finished rehab weeks early.

I got up, went to my swim class (at 6:15), then came home, got dressed and did my morning errands.

I was done and I get a push notification that the pump has been delivered and headed for the attended mailbox I use for packages.

The weird part is that it was signed for by AB.  Really?  There are three people who sign for packages there, and none of them would have signed anything close to AB.  Sure enough it's not there.

So if front of Sue, who was working that day, I called UPS.  They give me grief that it is addressed to Dallas, not Farmers Branch — hello, we share a zip code.  There are no duplicate addresses etc.  I also tell them the urgency of the delivery.

They tell me there are looking into it and put me on hold. After several minutes I get disconnected.  Sue makes me call back and they tell me that they will get back within the hour.

Hour passes, and they say they are still looking for it and that will have to send the driver back to find it.

I go eat lunch next door to the mail store, still don't here anything so back to the house and get on the computer to chat.  They tell me they are still looking into it — we're on hour 3 now.  The chat disconnects.

Next I call Medtronic.  They see its delivered, and they call UPS.  About 10 minutes after I get off the phone with them, I get an email that the pump has been delivered from the mail store.  I head over to pick it up and tell Medtronic its here.  While I'm on the phone with Medtronic, UPS calls, and I put them on hold.

While talking to the Medtronic customer support, I open the box and check everything is as it should be — it is.  UPS is still on hold.

When I get off with Medtronic I switch over to UPS, in front of Sue, and they tell me its a new driver and he took it to the wrong place and had to get it back.  Sue asks for the phone and tells the supervisor, that no, the driver told her it was lost in the truck.

Anyway, new pump is now programmed and working.  Old pump is on its way back to be refurbished for the next person who jumps in a pool without thinking.

I had a horrible nasty low last night.  So bad, I couldn't wake up with Dulce tried to wake me — or it was the lack of sleep.  I finally work in a cold sweat at 68.

I still didn't really know what was going on but Dulce was frantic and I did check my blood sugar.

A orange juice, then muscle milk for the protein and a handful of big lifesavers, I was finally going up.

Then of course wake up at 212 later.  Managed to make it to the dog show and get video recording done.  Finally back to normal when I left the dog show.

Here's the mistake.  I took a basal shot and THEN hooked my pump up.  I should have waited for hours after or put the pump on 0% delivery until that shot was out of my system.  Oh well.

Yes, I know it is no longer "certified" and to watch my blood sugars super carefully.

So glad I made the choice to go with the regular insulin only and not go on long asking.  Now I can sleep again, I hope.

Thanks for any prayers and thoughts for me.  I also sure don't want to be with out it again.

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