Category: Blog

The screen for my One Touch Ultra failed — I can’t read the numbers.  Called the Lifescan toll free number and they said they would send a replacement on Monday.  I’m sure that the Dexcom will still work with it, but I think I’m going to hold off on using my next sensor until it comes.  It’s too late to deal with it now, and I really don’t want to deal with it in the morning — my day was a little full today.

First dog agility day in about two months.  Blood sugar was the best it’s been in a while once i remembered to set my basal to agilty.

However, it was cold and dear Maggie didn’t feel like doing agility.  She actually felt like looking for food, I think.

I lost Marice in the tunnel in Jumers, and then she fell out of the tunnel in Standard (went in, couldn’t figure out what she was supposed to do, and then came back out.

Got Macy her first measurement, she’ll be jumping 12" and 8" and we just started training at 12" this month.  Doesn’t seem to faze her at all though.  I like to get that done well in advance to entering my dog, then I know what height they jump, don’t have to stand in line to get measured before our class and stress out over that.

One of my many directions at getting my life and my blood sugar back under control is to post to the blog more.  I’m still having lots of problems with control.  I know that I am not exercising as much as I was before Thanksgiving, though this week has been better.  However, I’m not seeing any changes in my overall blood sugar as a result.

I also know one of my problems is food intake.  I start eating in the late afternoon and can’t seem to stop until I get to bed.  That makes the GERD worse and shoots up the blood sugar, especially when I eat carbs.  I’ve been trying to shift from carb to protein but then that makes the GERD worse.  Makes the sleep worse, makes the wanting to eat worse, vicious cycle.

I’ve been working "Shrink Yourself" but haven’t been able to get past about week 6.  I’m not sure why, but I keep working on it.

The Fit4D people and program has been good — which is one reason the exericse is getting better. 

If anyone has any good ideas, let me know.

It’s day six and I just had another sensor fail.  I’m going to restart it, but I don’t hold out much hope for it.

And this one was one of the replacement sensors!

First if you are seeing not seeing this at http://www.kweaver.org — someone is STILL ripping me off. 

Tonight is interesting, I’ve got a photographer from the Dallas Morning News taking pictures while I’m blogging.  I figured the best way to keep him from completely freaking me out, was to just sit down and write a blog entry.

It’s all Amy’s fault you know (Diabetes Mine).  She sicced a reporter on me back before World Diabetes day.  However, they decided to focus on children and didn’t use the interview.  The bad news, is that this isn’t the first time I’ve been in the paper in the past 12 months. 

The next major milestone in my blogging life is coming up soon — I will be on my way out of the country, I think I mentioned before in the blog that I’m going on a cruise, teacher workshop, and the day of my blog anniversary is the day I fly out.  I’ll try to blog on the phone on the way, and publish when I land in Miami.

I need to do the massage thing more often.  I had a really good agility practice last night, wasn’t as stiff and was able to run even.  Very little knee pain. 

Also wasn’t as still today, though I really want a nap.

I’ve done a couple of injections by syringe (vial) today and yes, the pen is definately more comfortable.  The syringe hurts going in, and burns while the shot is happening.  I’m not sure if the stopper is dulling the syringe needle or if there is just enough Symlin on the outside of the needle to cause the pain.

I’ve done 3 doses of Symlin with the Pen Injector today. 

I’ve forgotten that needles don’t hurt going in — my theory — the stopper.  Pen needles don’t have to go through the stopper. So when I inject with the Symlin, going in doesn’t hurt, but the very final push of the plunger does — from the pH of the Symlin.

I’ll let you know after a week how bad it is. It usually takes that many tries before the needle starts getting annoying.

As for the vials — I have about a month’s worth of vials, so I’m going to use the pens "out" and the vials at home.  That will give a good cushion for when Medco decided to drive me nuts — though they’ve been good on Symlin.

I’ll start this out by saying that I believe that Dexcom has the best CGMS technology available right now.

However …

The last two boxes of SEVEN sensors have not lasted as long as I think they should.  Oddly, I expect them to last SEVEN days.  I’ve had one person on the Dexcom list already imply it is my fault, and it might very well be part of my normal environment, though I did have a period where the SEVEN’s were working well.  That isn’t going to change. 

Another problem is the needle pain.  It seems to get worse with each insertation.  I’m actually going longer and longer between sensor changes just because of the needle pain.

I do have two more sensors, plus the one I’m wearing.

I do believe I’m going to spend some time on the phone Monday, before I made a decision.  Of course, I can always change my mind and buy a box.  It’s hard to do it the other way.

This is what I was trying to think up — there are quite a few for sell on Ebay at reasonable prices, so I bought two.

BD Safe-Clip™ Device

The BD Safe-Clip™ Needle Clipping & Storage Device removes insulin syringe needles and pen needles safely and easily.