Category: Current Status

Not the greatest — 6.9

I was a bit disappointed — I had reduced my TDD on Saturday by 10 units, but on Sunday only by 5 units.  However, that’s still quite a bit of a reduction considering that bolus insulin is about 20 units a day for me right now.

Actually that’s a lot of insulin.

I also think my blood sugar was trying to elevate from the Lasix yesterday.  My blood sugar was a bit high this morning, though I’m hoping part of that was from being disconnected from the pump.

I also didn’t see as much weight loss from the Lasix this weekend.  On the other hand, I have ankles again, which is always good.

This week I’m focusing on getting enough sleep — both Saturday and Sunday I slept in fairly late and then went to bed at 9:30 last night.  I’m hoping that will get me through the week.  This is my last week before the AP exam — my major stressor of the year.

The weight I lost from the lasix is back — and so are the thick ankles. Next weekend I’ll try two days and see what happens.

I may just be cursed with edema for a while.

I”m seeing my Endo today and am going to ask his opinion too.

Well, that type of testing too — but we’re doing the TAKS test.  State mandated tests, some for Exit Level, some for NCLB. 

First of all who ever came up with the idea of giving teenagers an untimed test needs to be shot.  Though today wasn’t too bad.  I think I finished directions at 9:15 and I believe the first test was turned in around 1:00.  That’s for the “hardest” of the tests — 11th grade Math.

But here’s the deal.  I was supposed to be the test administrator’s go-fer.  I didn’t really want to do it but decided I didn’t want to make a fuss.  I ran a few errands for him at 7:30, then opened the lab for my early kids, then kicked them out and started running errands again at 8:30.  Well my first errand was to go get a missing test proctor.  When I got back and reported that she said she wasn’t supposed to test today, they said, yeah we figured that out and you’re replacing her.

This at 8:40 and we are supposed to start at 8:40.  They got someone to carry the materials upstairs for me, I ran by my room to pick up my directions, and I got going by 8:45. This is a tough test because not only do you have to keep up with tests and answer sheets, but you have to keep up with graphing calculators.  Never my favorite thing.

I get everything started, start watching the kiddos and take my first break.  Come back to find the state test monitor in the room (argh!), and am followed in by one of our runners who needs the money for lunch.  Whoops — I forgot to collect money for lunch.  (Hey, not bad), and they needed $2.90.  I handled $3.00 to the runner without taking my eyes off the kids (okay, I had to look down twice), the whole time the monitor is watching.

Oh, and because surely we have to be cheating, proctors have to keep their eyes on the students at all time.  We’re supposed to talk around but the room I was in was so tight, I can take maybe 5 steps max.  Oh and then my phone starts vibrating and vibrating.  I forgot to turn it off.

So finally the monitor leaves — and the phone stops buzzing but now the pump is buzzing.  Check blood sugar and I’m at 290! 

My high was a 341.  But it finally started dropping. 

I never got sick — like I did on Monday — another story, and made it without getting the munchies.

I talked to a union rep afterwards — and in the future I need to be insistant that I have a set schedule and it not be changed without a 2 hour notice.  It’s for THEIR benefit as much as mine — if they “kill” a proctor, it will be hard to replace one.

At least it ended well.

Won’t know the full results for several days but the sonogram found one very large gall stone. It could be causing the GERD or contributing to it.

There were polyps in the esophages and I think lesions which were removed and sent for biopsy. I’ll know in 5-10 days.

My protonix is on the way.

Last night was a scale of 4 — work up some but not bad.  Not at all as bad as the night before, thinking of a scale of 8.

Good visit. She gave me an aggressive plan of medication, scheduled a scope, and a sonagram of my gall bladder.

I was looking for Bowflexes on Craigslist and found a Weider Max. Got a hold of the guy this afternoon and got him to agree to bring it to the house for me. I snagged it for $120 — he wanted $110 and I gave him an extra $10 for bringing it over.

Sports Authority had one on clearance for $350 so I think I got myself a good deal. It works out well in the room, though things are a bit crowded. It folds out of the way of the murphy bed fine, will have to move the treadmill out of the way, but it works.

For those who don’t know, I have a study downstairs (i’m in there typing now), that is my folding room. It has a cabinet that has a murphy bed built in. I can fold it down for guests. My treadmill folds up and out of the way, and now so does the weight machine. I have an extra weight bench now that I ought to put up for sell on Craigslist.

I’ve been real lucky with internet purchases, ever since I bought a hard drive after I first got married. In fact, I found all three dogs on the internet!

Still waiting on paper work for fitness4diabetics. Actually I haven’t heard from them since Thursday.

Right now, my paperwork is hung up somewhere between my doctor’s office and fitness4diabetics.  Last I heard it was still on my doctor’s desk on Thursday.

Working out is going well, though I did miss a strength workout on Thursday.  I was able to shuffle the aerobics to Friday, though I really don’t want that day as an off day.  iShape has been scheduling it that way.

I was just too tired, and sadly, most of what I did was sitting at a desk that day.

I did call into the fitness4diabetics webinair on Wednesday and did enjoy it.  The speaker okayed my idea of getting a bowflex, though I am still putting that off a bit.