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After Thursday it will be very hard to get me to go out with out Dulce.  Blood sugar wise, I’ve had a fairly decent school year.  I’ve been very good at control during the day and I’ve learned, once again to tell demanding student – please wait a moment, I need to test my blood sugar (did that at least once yesterday).

Thursday I was having one of those diabetes days.  Blood sugar was high no matter how much insulin I did each check, and in fact, she indicated as we were packing and sure enough I was at 220.

I corrected.

As we headed out, I thought it would be a good idea to get the gym out of the way on the way home.  I was also working on her stay on the mat behavior while working out, so I didn’t give her picking up the leash much thought 15 minutes into the workout as she will sometimes offer that as a behavior when we’re training.

The third time she was adamant about it, I checked and was at 90.  Time for me, personally to quit the work out and get some carbs in me before we had a bad evening.

Sometime this month is my 10th year diagnosed with diabetes.

We’d had a day off, probably a staff development day that I’d already done in the summer.  I took the day to get some medical issues taken care of, my glucose tolerance test and a mammogram.  Not sure why they didn’t get done in the summer but there you go.  September is the start of a new insurance year for us teachers.

I went to a lab in Irving, and had to drink some foul sugar filled liquid every few hours.  As the day went I got madder and madder, but I thought part of it was being near where my best friend was killed and going to see his memorial site – it was less than a mile away from the lab.

By the time I got to the mammogram site, I was so mad I wanted to hit someone and didn’t care who.  I wasn’t very nice to anyone there, but they were okay.

Don’t remember the weekend much, but to this day, remember that feeling of anger when I first got up and persisted as the morning went on.  By the time I saw my first students, I knew there was something seriously wrong with me and that I couldn’t handle the classroom.  I had a call out to my doctor’s office while they were trying to reach me through the front office.  I remember they sent a sub up to me to tell me that my doctor’s office needed to talk with me and see me immediately and that the sub was taking my classes until I was done.

They immediately booked me into a diabetes education class and hooked me up with Metformin.  I figured out pretty quickly that Metformin was doing the job and switched to mix insulin.  That didn’t do it either so we ended up with a mix and with a sliding scale.

Two years later I was on a pump. 

Now, I’m on my third insulin pump, soon to go to a 4th, liquid metformin, and using an diabetes alert dog.

For 8 years I had pretty good control and then skidded off the wagon due to some environmental factors.  My blood sugar was so high I was considering checking myself into a in-patient mental facility until I realized that it was the blood sugar. 

It’s taken two years to get me back on the wagon, and the dog does a pretty good job.

Decided to bring it to school and let it sit for a few minutes here, since they have the temperature constant at 72 degrees.

The test showed an A1C of 6.7 which is awesome!  My last real one was 8.1 so if it is any where close to actual I’m doing better.

I got a coupon in the mail for 1 A1C test.  I had a box of 2 tests, neither of which worked.  I expected coupons for two tests.  However, I will run over to Walgreen’s and get a test, get on the phone and see if I can get the test to work.

Will probably have to pay for one kit, since I think they only come in twos.

Walgreen’s DID give me the kit for free!  I am going to wait until we get home from dog agility as temperature of the kit should be under 77 degrees.  It might be that when we get home tonight.

When we are in public, especially at a workshop or meeting, Dulce is usually in a small cage. This is mostly for her protection. She is very small and it easy for her to get stepped on.

She just alerted while in the cage. I was pretty sure had at night a few weeks ago, as I woke up with a wicked high, but wasn't sure she had woke me.

Basically she pulls on the cage door, just as she pulls on the leash.

Smart girl!

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I found yesterday that Microsoft has decided not to have a High School Liaison any more.

That makes me sad.

I don’t need him everyday.  And I don’t need him for JUST computer science.  In fact, I got an email from the acting specialist in charge of Instructional Technology asking about software for Digital Art and Design.

I can help some, the Microsoft High School Liaison could help more.

I am also going to need him as my Game Programming class progresses.

Apparently the average temperature of a house in Texas is too hot for their A1c Test.  They are supposed be sending me a coupon in the mail for a new set of Tests since both failed.

I wanted to see how working with Dulce had affected my A1c, and I won’t be able to find out until I get the coupon for the new tests, if they do arrive.

I won’t be doing business with them again.

The worst part was the customer service rep – she kept asking a question and then kept reading her script without waiting for the answer.  I might as well have been talking with a recording.

I had an excellent blood sugar day at school today. 

Guess what Dulce did?

She slept.  She woke up about 5 minutes before the bell rang at the end of the day, asked to go out, we went and she did.  Well, she did get up and run errands with me at lunch.

Left at about 4:35.

It was a good day. 

It will be a while before I will completely heal from two years of elevated blood sugars, but I’m getting better.

Seriously

People walk up and reach down and pet Dulce.  They don’t

Lowest weight since lap band.

However, the Aria scale and my network are being stubborn and not talking so I don’t remember exactly which tenth. <pout>

So now I have lost over 40 pounds.

Same TLC Edge wasted that year.  Interesting that I’ve now seemed to have left all the Medical Edge doctors, though the cardiologists don’t know it yet.