Category: Current Status

Apparently I have been invited to go to China.  See http://www.ambassadorprograms.org/upcomingprograms/education/clarence_ellis.asp

I’m not sure if everyone gets invited to it, or why I was picked.  I looked up the person who invited me, and I do not recall ever being at a conference or workshop with him, but I could have been at the same workshop several years ago in Austin.

I’ve shown the link to my husand and he doesn’t think going to China is a good idea.  (Actually he said getting a 6 week old beagle puppy was a better idea).

My mother also doesn’t think it is something I can handle, and I’m inclined to agree.

First, it would take me away from my classroom for week.  I am very disinclined to be away from my students that long, unless there is a very substantial reason for it.

Second, I am diabetic, insulin dependent and on an insulin pump.  Traveling right now is problemic for all diabetics, since we really need to travel with liquids, not just our medications.  Plus I am on a CPAP machine, and while mine travels very well, its emergency battery can be a problem.

Third, it cots $4,195 to go from LA.  While Dallas to LA flights booked this far in advance will probably be cheap.  I really can’t afford it.

So I really doubt I will go, but it is an interesting idea.

Oh, and I have never had any desire to go to China.

I’m doing my last exercise session of the week and have met my goals of exercising every scheduled day.

I did wake up high today, but I’m hoping that between my exercise session and Macy’s conformation class I can avoid using any extra insulin to bring it down.

Today was my smoothest blood sugar day, I stayed under 200 each time I tested and over 110. I did make one major change, which was to set my basal at 50% before I ate and exercised. Before I was using exercise to bring my blood sugar down to a decent level, but that wasn’t needed most of the week.

I still ate extra food but it’s better.

Also, I added an extra cardio session today.

My blood sugar this morning was 107.  And even though I had a reading of 330 after the Meet the Teacher night, my correction was working well, by the time I got home and ready for bed I was at 225 and IOB was saying I had plenty of insulin to handle the rest.

I could any attribute some of the 330 to meeting parents.

The good news, is that my TDD is still low. It wasn’t even the highest in the last 7 days, much less the last 14.

The changes I made yesterday did help, but I’m still having problems.

I headed towards low during my exercise session, and had to eat more on the way to dog class. However, I turned my basal down to 50% for the two hours of dog class, and finished at 175, and then did a correction.

I’m starting the day off at 107, which is a good thing. Yesterday I started off at 137 and with a correction.

I’m still seeing a trend of reducing my TDD, but I am not losing weight. In fact, I may be gaining, which is frustrating.

There is a certain group of people who persist in using my posts against detection dog training for their own advertising purposes. I thought very little of detection dogs when I saw them on Dlife, and their attempts to spam my blog have caused my opinion to drop to negative.

Rest assured, I will not let anyone use my blog to advertise services or goods. In fact, I’ve turned the commenting off of those entries and off of this entry because of the spamming.

About the only good thing I can say about them, as that the use of detection dogs is not as painful as the Glucowatch. However, they are taking a lot larger sum of money.

I’ve had associations with assistance dogs in the past, and in the case of legimate detection dogs, the assistant dog did cost the user any money. All expenses were paid through donations. That is true of Seeing Eyes, Canine Companions, and Texas Hearing Dogs. Anyone who is selling an assistant dog is not legimate.

Did both cardio and strength, though a nice light workout.

The blood sugar has been all over the place today, partly because I forgot a bolus.

It’s a pretty easy spreadsheet, but if you want a copy of it email me at kathleenw at gmail.com or just leave a comment on the blog asking for it.

Of course, it’s a short drive.

Seriously. Overall, my control hasn’t been bad. But I’ve been hitting a low every evening. I’ve been tracking my TDD closely and it has dropped. Those of you who pump understand that if your TDD drops, you have to adjust everything.

I keep a spreadsheet of the 14 day average, which also calculates boluses based on the rule of 500 and corrections based on the rule of 1800. I try to use those numberes as references, but adjust both boluses and corrections conservatively.

However, I got so tired of being low, especially in the evening, this morning, I just broke down and moved all my corrections up to 40, hoping that will solve the problem — which is what my spreadsheet says they should be. I also adjusted my non-regular boluses to 11 — again, what my spreadsheets says they should be, just in case. I am still being conversative about my meal time boluses, only adjusting them according to my meter readings.

Here’s what I do. If I start seeing consistantly post pranial readings of under 130, I’ll up the carb ratio. If I see post pranial reading over 150 consistantly, I drop the carb ratio. And I always change just be one.

I do the same thing on corrections, but they can be hard to see if I correct too close to a meal. I’m hoping it will all balance out in a few days. Like I said, it’s driving me nuts.

I don’t know if I’m losing weight, I kind of doubt it, since I”m having to eat to avoid treatable lows.

I really like the fact that iShape is taking me back into a program, very slowly. Today was weights only and that was a good thing.