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I’ve been having problems with my truck — it has been locking me in — and out.  When I went to Kroger’s yesterday, I couldn’t get in when I got done.  The power unlock didn’t work, nor did the key.  This happened on Friday too, and I drove over to the Ford place and got an appointment to get it fixed.  I could get it open by pulling on the inside latch.

The fun part, is that you can’t leave the truck unlocked while it is rolling. 

Took it in this morning, and they also found a major engine leak.  <sigh>  $3000 later and not done until Wednesday.  That’s about 6 car payments!

I have a cute little red Chevy from the rental car place to drive until it’s fixed.

I’ve been having problems with my truck — it has been locking me in — and out.  When I went to Kroger’s yesterday, I couldn’t get in when I got done.  The power unlock didn’t work, nor did the key.  This happened on Friday too, and I drove over to the Ford place and got an appointment to get it fixed.  I could get it open by pulling on the inside latch.

The fun part, is that you can’t leave the truck unlocked while it is rolling. 

Took it in this morning, and they also found a major engine leak.  <sigh>  $3000 later and not done until Wednesday.  That’s about 6 car payments!

I have a cute little red Chevy from the rental car place to drive until it’s fixed.

Sounds weird — doesn’t it?  We useDiet Gourmet for our food.  They take the Christmas holiday off, last pickup was on December 21, and today was our first pickup.  It’s much easier to use their service.

First, no choices at meal time.  I make the choices in advance.  That means I’ll probably make better choices. 

Anyway, it’s nice to have my regular food back.  My blood sugar has gotten progressively more out of control.  Though I’m sure part of that is due to taking some time off from working out to let my knee heal.

Sounds weird — doesn’t it?  We useDiet Gourmet for our food.  They take the Christmas holiday off, last pickup was on December 21, and today was our first pickup.  It’s much easier to use their service.

First, no choices at meal time.  I make the choices in advance.  That means I’ll probably make better choices. 

Anyway, it’s nice to have my regular food back.  My blood sugar has gotten progressively more out of control.  Though I’m sure part of that is due to taking some time off from working out to let my knee heal.

This week is tough. I really want to get back to school and get this year done and over with.

I’ve cleaned house as much as want to. I do need to do laundry but would like to wait until Monday or at least the weekend.

I am spoiling myself at lunch. something my father taught me. the best restaurants have good lunch menus and the portions are smaller.

So I did Red Lobster yesterday and am doing Saltgrass today. May do Italian tomorrow.

After I ate lunch I got up and couldn’t walk right for the first few steps. so I broke down and called my primary care physician for an appointment.

Once my head started working today — about 8:30 — I switched over to my new “weekend” basal. This was the first time I had used it, and while I ran a bit high this morning, this afternoon, it is working very well. I’m going to tweak on it a bit more, but I’m pretty pleased with what I’ve accomplished.

Now none of the basal experiments and new basal rates I’ve come up with are entirely new. They are based on the normal basal that my endo and his CDE have set up for me. I’ve just increased that basal by a percentage that has worked for me using my temporary basal setting.

I set up a new basal rate and adjusted it last night for workshops.

Basically I’ve found that using the temp basal at 50%+ helps, but there is a problem with temporary basals. For one, you can accidently turn them off and I’ve done that.

I’ve set up the extra basal and I switched over to it last night. I plan to switched back to the normal basal tonight and have the Treo programmed to remind me.

Here’s the good news. I ate breakfast at 7:15 and I just checked and my blood sugar is at 146, definately within the parameters I’ve set.

Four hours after eating and my blood sugar is 122 which is extremely good. So far everything is working well.

I left the workshop with a blood sugar reading of 117. A major victory! Hopefully repeatable.

One of the fun thingss about this weekend is that on Saturday, I met a pumper.

He was diagnosed at 3 and was put on his first pump at 8, I think. So he doesn’t remember not being diabetic, and barely remembers not being on a pump.

It was awesome to meet someone who understood what I was going through, especially the physical sympthoms of being high and being low.

At the same time, we have a really different set of experiences. I am still really new to the pumping world. There are a lot of things I don’t do well yet — agility is one of them.

But it was really need to met someone with the common experiments.

One of the fun thingss about this weekend is that on Saturday, I met a pumper.

He was diagnosed at 3 and was put on his first pump at 8, I think. So he doesn’t remember not being diabetic, and barely remembers not being on a pump.

It was awesome to meet someone who understood what I was going through, especially the physical sympthoms of being high and being low.

At the same time, we have a really different set of experiences. I am still really new to the pumping world. There are a lot of things I don’t do well yet — agility is one of them.

But it was really need to met someone with the common experiments.

I’m incredibly stiff today, but other than that, am fine.

My TDD insulin usage was way up all weekend — just around 50 units a day. My weight is up a little, but not substantially.

This week will continue to be interesting, as I have a teacher workshop tomorrow. That means I’ll have to increase my basal rate around 50%. I’ve got a basal rate in my pump for that now, which I plan to review after today, and switch to in the evening.

My blood sugar this morning was 111, a bit higher than the previous mornings, but not bad. Not correctable.

All in all, I’m glad I did everything I did. To recap the weekend — in fact, I don’t think I posted much about Sunday:

On Friday, Marcie and I took two first places with Clean Runs. One in Excellent Standard Perferred A, One in Excellent JWW Preferred B. Times were substantially below regular course time.

On Saturday, Marcie and I took a first place with a clean run and again, substantially under course time. Excellent Standard Preferred A, and finished her AXP title.

She is now Bettner’s Byte of Magic, OA, OAJ, AXP, AJP, CGC

On Sunday, last run, Maggie had a clean but very ugly Open run, getting a first place and her first Open leg.

So in 10 runs, we placed 1st 4 times.

The best part, though, is that I came home all three days feeling pretty good. Was able to do a workout on both Friday and Saturday, but was too stiff to move Sunday. The only thing I’d change, would be to wear more layers of clothing on Sunday. Man, it was cold.