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Diabetes In Control – Stable Glucose Improves Classroom Attention in Diabetes

I can say with a bit of confidence that it will help Type 2 diabetics children too…..

Okay, my sample size is small, but I know unstable blood glucose in me not only affects my classroom attention but my classroom performance too.

Oh, I forgot, I’m the teacher — does it still count?

I’m definately on Spring Break mentally.

My blood sugar is doing well — I’ve been on my weekend basal, and I did drop my boluses. I’ve been careful to do about 15 minutes on the treadmill after each meal since my activity level is a bit down from not teaching.

I’m going to see my endo today. The CDE wasn’t available, and I haven’t had someone else look at my logs for several months and I’ve made some interesting changes. I just want a trained medical professional to say I am on the right track.

I also want to start losing weight again.

I’m still waiting on the Protonix decision. It’s “in progress”. I am doing okay on one Protonix a day, but my coughing is pretty heavy in the evening. I am still waking up but not as early or as badly as I was at the beginning of the week.

This doctor brings up some interesting points on Exubra — I’m not rushing to go to Exubra myself as I don’t mind the regimen I’m doing now, and I can have the lifestyle I want — I expect the writer would accuse me of “abusing insulin”. Oh well.

Diabetes In Control – Exuberance Over Exubera: Some Cautionary Notes

Exuberance Over Exubera:
Some Cautionary Notes

Got to bed when I wanted but we had bad thunderstorms and poor Maggie woke me up. Plus I’d had pizza and so was having some GERD problems.

Did get my lesson plans done, at 2:00 am. but at least they are done.

Got up early, did some prep work for my :Algebra kids. I can’t deal with the stress of being responsible for a room I can’t control.

We have a new copier which I love because you can toss paper in it and it scans the image and emails it to me. I’m putting each day’s lesson on my class web site.

I took Marcie to a hunt test this morning at the Lone Star Dachshund Conservatory. Maggie went along, but I was pretty sure when I entered I was only up to one dog (and I was right).

Lovely site! It’s fenced in, to keep both the dogs and the rabbits in. It was very dry there, very grassy with cedar trees. They have put out pallets, chopped down trees, etc. to create places for the rabbits to hide. They put out water and feed for the rabbits too.

Here’s how it worked. They listed all the entered dogs, and then drew small numbered balls for our running order. We got to go 4th, which I think was a really good place to be in. I could see what other people did, and give Marcie a change to get out and see what was going on.

When it was our turn, I was told to let Marcie off leash and to guide her into places where the rabbits might be. I actually flushed out the first rabbit, but Marcie was too far away to see it. She flushed one out later, but it ran towards the fence and she gave up when she saw it disappear at the fence. She didn’t realize that they can’t get out, and didn’t keep looking.

She went back where she found it, and was very dilengent and excited about searching for it.

Unfortunately she didn’t find anything else in her 30 minutes so we were excused.

I was praised by several handles because I didn’t try to over control her, let her work, and didn’t say anything at all to discourage her. I was thrilled because she came when she was called and she worked hard. I wasn’t sure how that part would go.

One of different parts of that day is that one of the big bosses at Tuesday Morning was there. I think Rich’s boss reports to him, but there may be a person in between. I’d first met Richard (yes, same name as my husband) and his wife at their house when they got their first basset hound. They are extremely active in the Basset Hound club now and have quite a few dogs. They do conformation and are just starting in field work. I will admit I didn’t recognize them at first, since we usually see each other dressed to the nines for the company Chirstmas party and they aren’t in my “dog database”.

My whole leg hurts, from the knee down to my toes!  Icing hasn’t helped much.  I’ve got a Thermacare wrap on it now, but it isn’t either.  The hot tub helped earlier, so I’m going to hobble down when I get enough courage and try that again.

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Hot tub helped — I have more range of motion.  Oddly enough blood sugar is lower, not higher, as I expected.

My whole leg hurts, from the knee down to my toes!  Icing hasn’t helped much.  I’ve got a Thermacare wrap on it now, but it isn’t either.  The hot tub helped earlier, so I’m going to hobble down when I get enough courage and try that again.

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Hot tub helped — I have more range of motion.  Oddly enough blood sugar is lower, not higher, as I expected.

I think my blood sugar is slowly lowering.  We’ll have to see.

Today was a teacher work day.  Got my student’s grades back.  They had a very good passing rate on the final and a better overall passing rate.  This is good as all of my students are repeating their class.  As a result, I am starting to get a little bit of “big head.”

My knee is in horrible shape.  The bad news is that the elevator wasn’t working and I ended up going up to the second floor a bunch of times.  Unfortunately there is no elevator between my room and the main building, but it’s easier to up and down that flight slowly — for one, it’s steeper.

I’m worried about tomorrow.

Good news: there is very little change between my 1st semester roll and my 2nd semester roll for my ELI classes.
Bad news: There is a massive change in my repeaters classes.  They are all over 25 students now.  We had quite a few students who had flunked only 1st semester of Algebra I, they were also enrolled in Geometry and they are all gone now.  (They all passed).

It’s going to be an interesting day.

Sure hope my truck is back.

I have some decisions to make.  If I want to move to the new school, there is a January 31st deadline to apply.  I don’t think I want to go, but I don’t want to burn that bridge.  Also, my principal tells me that he has a computer science opening (I knew this).  Of course that status could change, but I would have seniority.  Of course that didn’t count last year.

So do I want to teach computer science?  Or math?  I’m leaning towards math.

Do I want to stay at my building?  My biggest problem with my building right now is temperature control.  It’s great out in the portables — that might be a plus for a new school.  My old classroom was incredibly hot in the winter time.

Decisions!

The truck breaking down as been the “final” factor in my decision.  I’ve been kicking around the idea of teaching summer school.  I haven’t before, but the extra money is now needed, especially since I’ll probably have to get a new truck soon, and maybe a new car for my husband.

The biggest factor though, is my blood sugar.  It has been extremely difficult to control over winter break, and it is definately easier to control when I’m teaching.

So as soon as sign up is available, I’m on it.

After reading about patello-femoral syndrome and hearing from one commenter who suffered problems for almost a year — I decided to lay off working out until later on this week.  I am starting to miss it!

First, my insulin usage is way up and so is my blood sugar.

I’m really worried about school starting back up, since the stairs are doing such a number on me — we have extremely steep stairs at school, and there really is no other way to get from my room to the building — yep, we’re not ADA compliant and it will take something like $50,000 to get that way.  They are hoping the overcrowding solution will solve that problem.