Category: Current Status

First her blood sugar was 184 this morning so she making progress in the right direction.
This hard, being a long distance Diabetes Educatoe. Plus her treatment is quite different than mine. I personally would like to sit down with her doctor and figure out what she is thinking.
I am still waiting on an A1C so we will know just how bad it is. She hasn’t been feeling well for almost a year and she was been going to doctor to doctor to figure it out.
I am upset that blood sugar readings were not taken earlier in the process.
I want her to go to a nuitrionist. I am not really up for that. For now I am trying to get her to write down everything and reduce carbs.
She freaked me out when she told me she did her water aerobics with no food.
I am also trying to get her to test only once a day and fasting but tested after the exercisiong and of course it was higher than she started, but I had to learn the exercise thing the hard way.
The excuses make me smile because I have heard them from my own mouth.
I need to get her to a CDE too.
I also set her up with Diabetes Forecast and Diabetic Cooking and have invited her to DLife.

I wish I could figure out when I need to send receipts and when I don’t have to.
I got an email probably Friday with a huge list. Most I had EOBs for the doctor’s visit and Medco has a nice online statement.
The only problem was my orthodics. I did not have receipts for them. Called this morning and then dropped by at 10:00 and they were printed out and waiting for me.
Next I have set up my computer to Fax!
Which I did — and faxed them 14 pages of data.

We’re having a nice quiet stress free as possible Christmas. Husband loves his new gift and I got a great deal on it.

Hope everyone else is having a good Christmas!

Another week of exercising finished — an easy week since I was off school.

My fasting blood sugar wasn’t great this morning, but my TDD is slowly going down and my weight is going down rapidly. I’m 3 pounds less than I was when I finally go the courage to weight.

Next week and half will be hard since our food service has shut down for the holiday. I had my last dinner last night and have a lunch today.

She took my advice and went to a doctor’s office. She got one that she hadn’t seen before and got scripts for test strips and for an oral med. She will get her A1C back next week and currently has an appointment for Feb 3. A bit far out in my opinion.

I’m having her write what she eats down.

My mother had some blood work up done last week and her blood sugar – non fasting was 400.

She went to a neighbor’s and tested it today and it was over 200.

She is in a typical high blood sugar mental state — in denial, etc. I told her that this was not an emergency room visit, but an immediate, go see the doctor now, especially since it’s Thursday at noon. I told her don’t wait for the doctor to call but go to the office and see the first available doctor.

I also told her that I wanted them to bring her blood sugar down immediately, and then see about diet and exercise.

I’m betting money that her doctor is going to be too conservative for my taste.

I also told her I wanted her to have an immediate A1C.

Of course, now I have a double whammy in my medical history. But at least she’s 70.

Medco shipped my Protonix. It has been SO aggravating — they want me to switch to Nexxium that does me no good and is besides just recycled Prilosec.

They have been giving doctor and I a hard time for the past year. This time they shipped a new script with vary a squeak!

So I wake up at 2:15 feeling kind of weird. Sick to my stomach even, though I blamed waking up on Maggie — but I think she got out of bed because I woke up.

Went to the restroom and then tested my blood sugar. 102 at 2:15 is not a good blood sugar for me, have never seen it that low. Sat and thought for a bit and then finally decided to get up and eat my breakfast (last one for the year from Diet Gourmet).

Now I’m up at 8:44 and my blood sugar is 90.

I guess that will teach me to walk on the treadmill for 35 minutes and then almost immediately go to a TOUGH dog class.

They sent me a WHOLE box of Inset IIs to try. I signed up for that about a month ago. i will say that I have loved every product I’ve tried — okay, a sample size of 3.

But the part I love about this, is that it is a whole box. I’ve always said you have to try three of anything and probably a whole box of a set — I found that out the hard way, I tried the Simple Choice — order a full box and had to return them after about 5 as each time I used them the needle seemed bigger to me.

Yeah, I have needle phobia bad.