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I am not sure I like the new location — but I didn’t like the one before that either. I really liked it when they were here in Farmers Branch.
The people I saw today were good though. The PA noted that I was carrying at least 5-10 pounds of fluid, heard my heart mummer, etc. Plans are to do an ultra sound of my heart and to do a stress test, on my next free day which looks like June 5. I might have to take a sick day, but I’d rather not for a while.
My next trip is to San Antonio — the last day of June. I am going to CSTA which is a one day event, breakfast and registraton at 8:00, first session at 8:45. I’m kicking around the idea of flying in that day — first flight in is at 7:55 and the hotel is 7 miles from the airport, and both are on a major highway.
If i do that, I do not have to travel with my CPAP machine, making the whole trip much more TSA friendly.
Any thoughts?
If I had to do things over again, I would have taken two checked bags. That would have been less stressful, especially packing on the way home. My bag was stretched to the max, and they gave us stuff to bring back. It worked out okay, but it would have been better.
Things I did right: ending up taking a larger carry on bag. The dogs really did me a favor in a way by tearing up my leather bag. The microfiber Ameribag I took is a large, and works better on a trip, though doesn’t look as good.
The last thing I should have done better was to put the insulin in the carry on bag. Though the dogs would have torn up the plastic bag, I would have remembered to bring it, and would not have had to come back.
Well, and I should have put the carry on bag up higher in the first place, then I would have had time to get breakfast and would have remember the insulin.
Also, getting the travel cubes was a really good idea. They kept things organized throughout the trip, and much eadier to deal with.
I absolutely despise articles like these …
Elizabeth Soto used to say no when her husband suggested they go dancing. “I didn’t want to go,” she would say. “I felt tired and ugly.” She also was carrying 314 pounds on her 5-7 frame and had Type 2 diabetes
One of my dear friends brought this article to school for me.
Of course, she couldn’t answer the two most important questions about the surgery:
a) How is the complication rate and in particular the death rate?
b) How much will it cost?
Well the biggest answer is that our insurance won’t cover it, last time I looked.
And the complication rate scares the heck out of me.
Besides if my pancreatis hadn’t been damaged, going on the nuitrion protocol would probably make me not need insulin too.
None of the above was in the article at all.
I have emailed TSA and complained, but I had problems both in Dallas
leaving for my cruise and in Miami, returning.
In Dallas, TSA managed to disconnect my insulin and in my stress, I
didn’t realize it until two meals later. I was NOT feeling well.
Both Miami and Dallas has the same problem though — since I am
required to travel with an insulin pump, a CPAP machine and a
computer, I end up putting very valuable equipment in about 5 bins.
That takes up a lot of conveyor space. Once my Dexcom Seven system
set off the metal detector, I have to be screened and was put in a
glass "cage" with no access to my items. HOWEVER, other passengers
have access and did mess with the items in both cases.
I am sure they were just trying to get to their stuff, but their
bodies were blocking my view so I could not see what exactly they were
doing and a woman in Miami put her hands ON my CPAP machine. This did
not make me a happy camper. After I alerted the TSA agent twice (in
both cases), they picked up my bins and put them somewhere out of
access of passengers but still within my site.
I have suggested that as soon as they put a passenger in the box, that
the move that passenger’s bins to a secure area. Hopefully they will
listen.
It is going to take a long time to catch up, both when it comes to blogging, but also grading, etc. The grading thing is the most important, since my deadline is 4:00 pm today. When I get that task done, I’ll blog.
My blood sugar has been normal for the last day and a half. Blood sugar was actually at 126 in the morning, only exciting if you realize that my fasting blood sugar has been around 170 if not higher.
I actually got to get on the treadmill and walk tonight and able to skip my dinner bolus. Something I haven’t been able to do in months.
Starting to wonder if I have been sick for months, not just days or weeks. Of course, there is the chicken and the egg thing, which came first, the illness or the high blood sugar.
What’s a Chumy? See http://www.chumby.com — or better yet, see my Chumby here:
It’s an internet appliance that can replace your clock rado/ alarm clock, and is a whole lot easier to set than a real one. It could be easier yet, and probably will be some day — I still want to be able to program the alarms on the internet and lots of people want to program them using something like Google Calendar.
I love mine, but husband thinks I’m nuts.
The second time, I think in about 4 months that I had decent blood sugar readings. It’s been driving me nuts, screwing up my vision, and probably caused the bronchitis. I finally just bit the buillet and upped the afternoon boluses to match the morning, since I haven’t been able to work out in the evenings….
I am definately still feeling the bronchitics. It takes forever for the lungs to heal.
Tihs blog has existed for 5 years as of this week. My first entry was on February 28th, 2003. Oddly enough, I will be traveling on that date. I’m hoping to have time to write a good blog entry on the plane, and post it before I get on the ship.
I started this blog a few months after being diagnosed with diabetes, and the primary reason I started the blog was because I wanted to get better at writing and I needed a topic to write about. Also, I teach computer science and I find myself on many different computers during the day, and having information about my diabtes on the internet was helpful. WhenI need some information, i can just do a search on the website, and don’t have to keep track of the data.
I’ve never really meant it for others — though i have been considering opening up a bit. I rarely participate in activities designed to build links — basically I’ve believed that if you need something here, you’ll find it.
Lately though, I’ve been wondering if I should reach out more in my life…. There are lots of reasons for me to feel that way.
By the way, you can track my diabetes control on how active I am here — when it is not good and I can’t get it together, I don’t post much.
Lately part of the problem is that I try not to blog at school — even though I do have some time periods when my students are working on projects, and I’m basically staying out of their way so they can get something done. If I talk to much, I take up their time, plus they don’t listen to me. Usually on the first few days of a project, they don’t need me. In fact, if I do a good teaching job, they shouldn’t need me at all through the project, but that never happens.
I’m also working on a website for the district so that does take up a lot of my time, both during school AND after school.
This lately blogging has been very sporatic, but I’m hoping it will get better soon.