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I've been seeing a chiropractor for two weeks now.  The shoulder doesn't hurt when I am not working at a desk.  Like right now.  I'm typing on a laptop in a big soft easy chair while watching TV.  But I'm sure if I went up to my office upstairs and tried to work, it would hurt.

It also hurts when I drive, but if I can tuck my shoulder into the seat belt and my hand into the lap portion it is not as bad.

Dog agility doesn't bother it, but I am suspecting that my posture is affected as the girls have missed some signals in class last night.

I also talked to the chiropractor about my knee and I think I'm going to have him work on it for a while when we finish the shoulder if insurance will let it happen.

I am planning to go to Massage Envy tomorrow night and letting them work on me.  Not as good as the chiropractor's therapist, but not bad either.

My Ping was scheduled to be delivered between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm on Monday.  It arrived JUST after my last class.  This was a bit of a stressor since I had an appointment for a massage on my shoulder at 4:00, and I was afraid it wouldn't come until after I had to leave.

So I programmed the pump at the lights — we have long lights — and in the parking lot at the chiropractor's office, and switched over.  When I got home I tried to upload the IR2020 settings and download them, but ended up resetting the pump.  So don't do that!

So I reprogrammed it for my regular basis and went off to dog class with it.

Meter is a standard meter with extra features for the pump.  I actually like it, and it's nice not to have to pull the pump out.  Have not had any problems with the two communicating, even though there is a white paper floating around saying that one user did have those problems.

I will be honest, I love the Accu-chek Compact Plus because everything is in one unit and I wish someone would make an attachment to the One Touch Ping Meter so that the lancing device and test strips are attached.  As it is, I am back to the Accu-Chek lancing device with the drums as it is easiest on the hand.  The One Touch lancing device fits better in the case but.

Also wish the case had enough room for Lancing Device and Symlin Pen.  Just isn't enough room!  You get one or the other.

There are other things I wish they had.  I wish the Meter held more food entries and I wish that you could put medication entries in to the log.

Overall I am very happy with the remote and how it is working.  It's a good advance!

And after pump shopping, I do think the Animas Ping is the most technologically advanced pump out there.  The others do have features that the Animas doesn't but …

Another agility weekend and today I am not as tired as last weekend. Each weekend I have run into someone interesting. Last weekend, my personal trainer who also house sat for me. This weekend, in fact, today, it was a blog reader. Hi Alyson!  Here’s the really strange part, I think Alyson was there to visit a lady who inherited a rescue border collie from me (long story but I got the dog from Border Collie rescue and it drove my existing beagle and husband nuts, okay, me too).

By the way, in an effort to save my shoulder, l am writing my blog entries on my tablet PC. Only problem is that I really have to proof what the computer generates from my handwriting. I am not so good at that.

In fact, I have switched back to the keyboard.

My shoulder IS better.  When I wake up it doesn’t hurt, and it doesn’t start hurting until I start using the mouse.  Every click still hurts but not as bad.  And I don’t feel as bad at the end of the day.  I’m hoping to be close to normal by the end of the week, but we”ll see.   The chiropractor is really thinking two weeks.

Ping is coming tomorrow and I can almost not wait.  I’ve been preparing for it, I already switched back to a One Touch Ultra Smart meter which is as close to size and function as the Ping.  I might even bring this notebook to school since it has a CD drive — my other doesn’t but I can always save the CD to our server at school and put it on the other notebook that way (it doesn’t have a CD drive).

A smart person would pull her logs tonight and print them.  Not sure if I will though.

Went to an MSDN developer’s conference on Monday. Had an ice day yesterday.You would think I would be recharged but I am exhausted. Part of it is the cold I picked up this weekend. I would say about every 3 out of 4 kids at school have colds.

  still bothering me. The pain was me out. I will say its good when I am not using a mouse or keyboard so I might try that tomorrow. Right now I am using my tablet PC and I can use it tomorrow.

  weekend and an agility trial.

I am stiff and completely exhausted. 

This weekend was the first weekend of the 2009 agility season for us — we only do AKC and it was the first AKC trial.  Yesterday was cold and today was a bit better.  By the way, Landend silk underwear is the best. I need to find my undershirts by next weekend though it’s supposed to be in the 60’s.

Maggie came close to Q’ing in JWW and wasn’t bad yesterday in Standard.  I think I was too tired and too slow for either dog, though Macy did try for a little while in her own class.

The good news is that I managed to get through yesterday and went back today.  I didn’t do that all fall. 

Baby steps.

A1C news isn’t good.  8.1 and had a 7.9 in November.  However, Animas called Friday and wanted to start the insurance process, so I went in my form Friday evening and mailed the original yesterday on the way to the agility trial.

Still managing to get in a 10 minutes – resistance training – break – 10 minute workout.  Too tired to do much more time right now.

Shoulder is better today and I’ve signed up with the chiropractor for a bunch of visits.  Very happy with that service.

Still don’t think I"m losing weight but my skirts are getting bigger.  Not abnormal for me, and I think it will just take a while for my body to get out of starvation mode.

My next step is more sleep and I have been getting to bed earlier. 

Hey, contribute does a nice job of making up a title.  I think I’ll leave it. 

I use several different tools to make blog entries, Adobe Contribute is one of the easiest but I like Windows Live Writer too.

Got my A1c back but don’t know what the old one is.  I have an idea, but I"ll wait on that until I hear from the endo’s office.

Also let them know we’re talking about pump on February 9th, and asked what paperwork to bring.

Shoulder is still bothering me, and the more I mouse at school the worse it gets.  This computer could feel a bit better if I dropped the height, but can’t seem to do that with this table.  I’ll have to look for a touch pad attachment and see if that helps — I just thought of that since this computer DOES have one, and doesn’t put as much strain on the shoulder.

At school, I pulled the monitors to the front of the desk and am using an adjustable height desk for keyboard and mouse.  It’s the laptop table I bought on clearance from Office Depot.   I love Office Depot clearance.

Saw a chiropractor this evening and they seemed to have helped.  They are across the bridge from the house and he is almost as overweight as I am so I don’t think I’ll get the snarky comments I get from the orthopedist.  I got an appointment from his office for tomorrow afternoon, but the chiropractor could see me today.  I am going to see how much it is going to cost for him to fix me, but I’m already better. 

Only problem is that he doesn’t seem super busy so he is either really good, or the opposite.  Lovely office but with a lousy parking lot, typical of my suburb.

I am still managing to work out each day and I am hoping to have solved some of my evening eating issues.  Drinking a bottle of water first thing helps, so I’m making that a mission.  It takes most of the day to finish it but I’m the same way with coke.

I also did another smart thing.  I completely stocked up on groceries so I don’t have to hit the local restaurants. I grilled a dozen chicken breasts this evening.  I completely avoided any baked potatos or totillas.

Good:

Still working out, happy with the split cardio with beginning resistance exercises in the middle. And some stretches.  Did 22 minutes tonight.

Learning that drinking water does manage hunger.  Need to make drinking one bottle first thing in the day.  Also think that would help on blood draws, but didn't really ask much. 

Realized last week when craving food, only protein satisfys and with the cold, it needs to be warm protein, so picked up several different forms at the grocery store.  Did a bacon/cheese omelet this evening.

Bad:

Had a blood draw, tech had trouble finding vein, she kinda of mentioned the water thing might be causing it, should have asked.

Not losing weight still — weighed at endo's office and still same weight.  I'm ready to lose already!

For the last few weeks I have been focused on getting to twenty minutes a day of cardio and I have managed.  This is something I know, if I can get 20 minutes on the treadmill done within an hour, I can skip my dinner bolus, reducing my total dosage.  I’ve been there for several days.

While I would like to get to one session of 20 minutes, I think it is going to take a while, so I’ve decided to change my focus a bit, and to be satisfied with two sets on the treadmill, with short session of resistance training in between, and a stop on the computer – which is what I am doing now.

So I have started feeling good about 10 minutes, but will slowly add to it each day as I feel better.  I have also added triceps and biceps every other day, then crunches and stretches every day. It feels like a doable work out.

Shoulder is still sore but the massage helped.

Changes in bolus rates working – my average blood sugar is still under 150 so that’s good.  If I can get my TDD down I know I will lose weight.

Weight isn't budging, but my overall average blood sugar is lower — almost too low, so I am making a small change that might effect the weight.

Corrections are definately working and so are my boluses, so I'm going to change my insulin to carb ration from 4 to 5.  That should reduce the amount of insulin I'm using which should allow weight change.

I do have to be careful to keep checking as I don't want my blood sugar levels to go too high — that causes food cravings.

Also need to be working on the water, I really let that slip this week.

Heading off for a massage, hoping to get my shoulder fixed.  I'm hoping between massage and being away from my desk for 4 days, it will get better.