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Good news for Byetta users, you can handle them just like insulin and Symlin. 

Link to Close Concerns Weblog: Byetta pens no longer need refrigeration

Read about it on another blog — I’m playing with it.  It’s at http://twitter.com/

I’m not sure what it is good for, but then I don’t always get Social Networking.  I am probably too old.

It happened to us this week. 

First, I freely admit I am anal, as I told my students today, some people use a blowdryer, I use Chase.  And some other accounts.

Every day I take a shower, every day, after the shower, I sit down with the accounts and check them.  Every single one — it’s not that hard with Quicken, but I check every account that we have setup on line, including my cell phone account.  Anything, anyone could tamper with.

Yesterday, a check went through for approximately $127.00  I realized pretty quickly I hadn’t written a check for that amount, but waited for a day to verify it, since the image was not available.

Someone created at least three checks, with my husband’s name, his DL (which even I don’t have at my finger tips), my name, my DL, and our address.  Of course, I don’t put the DL’s printed on the check.  I also can’t write as legible as the forger.

It’s been fun.  I had to close our checking account and I had to provide a list of known transactions (and darn, I should have pulled that before I left the house, I had to come back and get it).

I also put a fraud alert on our credit accounts.

My husband is happy.  Everyone whose heard the story realizes that they wouldn’t have caught the problem as quickly as I did, or gotten it resolved as quickly.

It pays to be anal.

I’m really getting bummed about agility.  It has not been going well.  I really think it’s because my own physical health is not getting better.  I begged my endo for help, but he didn’t have any more answers my last trip in.  I’m not sure what to do, other than try to increase my walking.

I’ve been extremely stiff, and I know a lot of that is just the cold weather we’ve been having.  Tonight, we did most things well, but I was running very stiffly.  The sad part is, Marcie is trying hard, but she just can’t go any faster than I can go.  And I think by the time I’m getting to Maggie’s runs, I’m so tired, she can’t connect with me.

The good news, is that the youngest is on closed poles now, so I am making some progress in one world. 

The good news, is that the next trial is two weeks away.  Everyone pray for warmer weather.

And it was not fair that it was 60 degrees today, and 40 all weekend!

More good news, I played hooky today, slept in, and then went mall walking.  I didn’t get enough steps in — only 8485, but 1796 of them were aerobic.

A commenter asked if the pedometer can be used for walking in place.

I looked at the manual, and I don’t think so.  You are going to get some steps counted but maybe not all — it’s say the unit may not be able to count steps correctly in the following cases: and it mentions jogging and walking slowly.

Oddly enough I discovered this on my own, but I think it is more a symthom of diabetes than anything. 

The authors found that there was a reduction in sleep onset latency (SOL — the time it takes to fall asleep) by nine minutes in the group that had a high carbohydrate meal four hours before bed time.

Source: Sleep Disorders: Information and advice on narcolepsy and insomnia symptoms and treatments

When my blood sugar is high when I wake up, it’s really hard for me to eat.  Sometimes I can do eggs and bacon.  Today, I just didn’t feel like eating at all, and never got around to it.

Then I did an agility run.  NOT good, I was dizzy, feeling hypo, etc.  Didn’t remember I had emergency sugar in my keychain which is in my chair pockets.  I just couldn’t figure out what to do.  I went to the car, sat down and slowly forced down my breakfast.

Then I forgot to bolus for that, but wasn’t super high.  Just over 200, which I was all day yesterday.

Also, it was cold.  When I woke up at 6:00 am it as 42 degrees, and when I came back from getting warm inside and out (got a warm lunch), it was 44.

Marcie and I are doing okay though.  We rarely have more than one mistake, though we had two in Standard this morning.  And she ran clean but I was so stiff from the cold that I was slow and we were 7 seconds over time.

Most of the time these days, we’re clean but over time.

Maggie on the other hand, decided that I wasn’t listening to her when she said it was too cold to do agility.  She ran out of the ring.  I told the people at ringside, if they would get give her food, she’d stop but they were all horrified at that idea.  Probably something about rewarding the behavior I’m sure.  Well, when she’s in agility mode you can’t pick her up — she won’t let me, and I know she won’t let strangers.  So I grabbed my food on the way out of the ring (we stash it handy), and got her to sit and stay while someone else got my leash (it was on the other side of the ring). 

I took her comment this time, put her in the truck and took her home.

 I am hoping the others will do likewise.

One of six notorious Texas prison escapees now on death row for the Christmas Eve 2000 killing of an Irving police officer is hoping to speed up his execution.

Michael Anthony Rodriguez has notified court officials that he wants to drop all appeals efforts. If a federal judge allows the move, Mr. Rodriguez would probably become the first member of the Texas Seven gang to face execution.

Source: Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | News: Local News

For those who don’t know, Aubrey Hawkins, the Irving police office that was killed by them was one of my best friends.  He was a really neat guy, and a really good police office.

Last year, I attended the Diabetes Expo and learned about the IPort.  See http://www.pattonmd.com/patientsfamily/index.php

I’m going to try a box and see if I like it.

I got an email from Patton, and they referred to EdgePark Medical Supplies to supply it.  They have a website too, at http://www.edgepark.com/. 

They are selling me the iPorts with no co-pay, which seems really wild.  They also want to supply my testing supplies at the same no co-pay, so I said, sure, why not, since right now I’m paying the pharmacy co-pay. 

It will be interesting to see how it will all work out.

And I’ve programmed it manually and have it on.  New set, new bottle of insulin, and new cartridge and new pump.  Maybe the bizarre numbers will change.

Though I do think someone spiked my diet Coke with sugar this morning.  (In other words the fast food place gave me regular, not sugar free).