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I switched to a different mask last night — new one, should leak less.  As always when making a minor change in my sleeping situation, I didn’t sleep well at all, I had trouble falling asleep.  I also had trouble staying asleep

The good news, I’ll be tired tonight and will have less trouble.  This is why I try not to make changes during the school year.

Guess what — I have an eye infection AND am using this contact lens solution.  Though I believe my infection is isolated to the eye lid, not the eye itself.

I’m calling Monday, and want them to pay for my solution AND my current set of lens.  My new lens are $150 for 6, so tossing them isn’t cheap. 

Link to Lens Solution Is Pulled Over Link to Infection – New York Times

Long, over scheduled week.  Unfortunately I spent most of the week being a responsible adult.  Since I start getting ready for the end of the school year in April, I don’t usually have much to do this week. 

Today is about getting some final stuff signed off, making sure my students grades are in the school “grade book”, and going to the faculty luncheon. 

I had meetings most of the day Monday and Tuesday, and also went to the board meeting last night.  So far, there is nothing about the award in the paper.

After the board meeting, life got weirder — we were having heavy thunderstorms — I keep telling everyone, it’s no worse than usual, we just forgot them in the drought.

Anyway, a few cars in front of me, was a white convertible.  It went out of control, and I got stopped with getting hit, but it went off the road, and landed into a drainage ditch with a huge splash.  I called 911, and reported it, but no one else stopped.  I couldn’t see that they were getting any help, so I got off the road, and back on the exit.  Still no one was there and they couldn’t be seen from the road at that point, though there was an Dallas Fire and Rescue unit about a mile behind me, so I stopped the safest (relatively) place from them, got out of the car, ran to where they were at, pulled off my jacket and waved DF&R down.  DF&R insisted I leave, so I took off.  Fortunately they landed wheel side down, but water was up over the door handles. 

So I feel really lucky AND sore today.  Knee is bugging me, it isn’t good to run on a bad knee in the rain.

Just like every other device with a color screen — you can’t see it well in direct sunlight.  It was bit disconcerning the first time I tried it, but just like the cell phone and anything else with color on a black screen, you can’t see the Animas 2020 in direct sunlight.  I’ve had to turn up my constrast to 10, so I can.

There is one thing for black on green screens — they don’t wash out.

And still no Ezmanager.

Good article on the different insulins. 

Let us now delineate the different types of insulin available for treatment to suit the specific needs of patients.

Source: Insulin therapy for diabetes – 2

I drive about 90 minutes to dog agility and about 40 minutes back.  That amount varies according to traffic.  Why?  She’s the best instructor for my dogs.

I’ve been taking Maggie and Marcie on Mondays, and Macy on Tuesdays.  That eats up a lot of evenings, and FUEL! 

Lately, Macy has been bored with the Tuesday night class.  She can do 10 obstacles, no problem, provided I have cookies in my hand, I make enough noise, and I move fast enough.  The other dogs have problems with 3.

Concidently, I have a really good friend who trains with the same instructor and her dog was having similar problems with the early Monday night class.

Her dog was moved up to Maggie’s class and Macy got her dog’s slot.

I even had a bit of a stress attack over this — but we did fine.  Macy even managed to figure out the dog walk even though we had not done it before.

So I trained Macy from 6:50 until 7:45, Maggie from 7:45 until 8:40, and then Marcie from 8:40 on.

Maybe we’ll make it through the Sanctioned Match on Saturday!

I’ve polled a few people in my building, both adults and students.  Of course, those students are computer science students.

All say that the pump looks “cool”.  They like the screen, but didn’t remember the old one.  Fortunately the UltraSmart II screen is similar to the old one, so they can compare.

So, it’s definately cool, both with the screen on and off.

Just got off the phone with Animas.  They verified that I cannot retrieve carb and blood sugar information from the pump itself, but that it is downloadable with Ezmanager.

No release date.

I do have an email out to ezmanager support, so we’ll see what they say.

It definately stops during basal download — the bolus’s show up on the pump but my TDD isn’t showing up.  Guess I’m just going to have to be patient.

A commenter asked about EzManager, and I’m sure I have posted about it in the past.  Check the software category.

I first started using EzManager BEFORE I got a pump.  In fact, EzManager may be one of the reasons I got my first Animas pump.

The current version of EzManager works very well with either a Palm device or with an UltraSmart meter.  I will have to review the new version of EzManager when it comes.

My medical team finds the daily graph a bit confusing and they prefer to get the log output.  I do better with the daily graph.

EzManger will track whatever you put in it, and you can either enter food data and exercise data through the Palm or Ultra Smart, or through EzManager itself.

The biggest problem I have had with EzManager, is with the food database.  You can not edit food database entries, and you can only delete entries by using a Palm device. 

Everything else works well.

As you can tell from the entry time, I’m not sleeping right now.  I haven’t been sleeping well all week again.

What woke me up?

A bit of gastric reflux, dogs and the lights from our local police car at a traffic stop in front of the house.  And maybe my pump alarm.

I WAS sleeping pretty good.  Until last Friday night when the A/C went out and I had to deal with it, and the finances surrounding acquiring A/C.  Friday night I couldn’t sleep because I was too hot and for worrying about money and getting it all done.

Slept all night on Saturday but couldn’t sleep at all Sunday night.  So every night, I don’t sleep my pain gets a little worse.  I wake up more easily etc.  The only way to fix it is to sleep it out.

That means when I finish this post, I go back to bed, and sleep as late as I can.  And if I wake up before 9:00 am, I mess around again like I am doing now, and then go back to bed again.  It also means maybe taking a nap or two, but making sure I get enough sleep so I can sleep all night on Sunday.

It might even mean taking some Sonata.  Which I probably should have days again, but I don’t like the way I feel if I don’t get enough sleep when I take it.