Category: Current Status

I taped DLife since I was on the road yesterday, and watched it today. It is much improved. Much more relaxed and less frentic pace.

Monroe turned out good. Maggie took a first place in Open and a 3rd place in Excellent A.

Last year at Monroe, people asked me to take her away from the ring as she was snapping at their dogs and barking. This year, not one person asked me to do that.

Last year, she stuck her head in a hole in the hall and bellowed. This year she stayed with me. Also the hole had an access panel covering it.

She’s been a bit of a wonder beagle for me. I really think I brought her out a season too early. Maggie is a rescue. She was “free to a good home”, found on a chain with no house. She’s had 8 puppies, beagles, thankfully, and her rescue family has all the puppies now. Of course, they are all adult dogs.

Her head is deformed, we think congential, as her puppies came out fine, she is both wry and has an overbite. She has very silky hair, not correct in a beagle which means she gets old very easy. We call her the sport beagle as she is built like a sports car, very long leggy and very skinny. She runs FAST. She yells a lot. A full bodied beagle bellow that pushes her backwards.

Marcie on the other hand was a lead balloon both days.

Got to see my niece and her fiancee on Saturday. Saw my mom and sister today.

The trip was worth while. I only forgot socks and a contact lens case. Both were easily obtainable. However, I ended up changing sites three times, but that is normal for dog agility.

So Maggie is now Maggie, OA, OAJ and has caught up with Marcie on Excellent A JWW legs.

Oh, and my husband the mailman had a cookie in the mailslot for her.

There are pictures of previous trials at http://www.kweaver.org/photos

I have a friend here in Monroe, at the agility trial who is a diabetic. And every year several agility friends and I meet her at a restaurant for dinner.

She absolutely scares the bejesus out of me, because at 3 different meals she has arrived at the restaurant low. Tonight was the absolute worse, and I honestly thought she was going into a seizure. She did not respond for 5 minutes didn’t move, etc. The only reason I didn’t force glucose gel down her throat was because she had already drank about 8 oz. of Dr. Pepper (the non-diet kind).

And yes, she drove herself to the restaurant.

I’m lucky. I can feel the low coming on. In fact, sometimes I feel like I’m low but I’m not (that happened this afternoon), but I always ALWAYS check when I feel that way.

She’s a Type 1 and I do realize that most Type 1 spike from low to high quicker than I do. I also know that there is gylcemic unawareness going on, but can you PLEASE check your blood sugar and fix it before you get in the car?

Sorry, it makes me nuts.

Whenever I start a new semester or have a major schedule change, I’ve just got to realize that I’m going to have to take an off week.

Believe me, last week I tried, but then every morning I woke up and my knee was aching.

I just don’t sleep well when I get a different set of students. My mind whirls, and I keep thinking of things that have to be done before tomorrow.

Summer school was no different.

I am back on a routine now, in fact, I’m almost done with my walking (it’s an off day for weights).

Busy week though, I need to get back in before Thursday to work on my final, and I’m going to concentrate on learning Blackboard before the workshop on Thursday.

And I’m off to an agility trial in Monroe Lousiana this weekend (husband is staying home).

Oh, and I’ve got Take Home Chef going on the background and I still think it is cool, and having Curtis Stone cook for me is STILL a top fantasy.

Candid Diabetes: Grading On the Curve

Good info on the Minimed Guardian from Canada. I am still thinking about the Dexcom. I don’t really want to go with Minimed.

So there is an message on my voice mail that says: This is Fay, the Nurse Practioner at Dr. x’s office who you talked with while you did your stress test. It came out normal, strong healthy heart.

Only a couple of problems, I didn’t talk with Fay. Oh well.

I got a 0054-0001 alarm code yesterday. It says to call service. Since it stopped and didn’t reoccur after changing a slightly low battery, I’m waiting until regular business hours.

This is my second alarm code, I’ve also gotten a 0052-001 back on March 23. Therefore I am not too alarmed (bad pun).

I am finally catching up on sleep. Whenever I change anything about my sleep equipment it makes it hard for me to get to sleep.

Plus using the old machine really messed me up. So I’ve had trouble actually getting to sleep all week. Several nights I got less than 6 hours of sleep because I had to be up the next day.

Yesterday, I laid down to take an hour or so nap, and ended up waking up at 5:00 when my husband got home from work.

However, then I couldn’t get to sleep until after midnight, but woke up at 5:00 — which is when I’ve been waking up, but was able to go back to sleep for almost 4 hours more sleep.

So I am at 37.2 hours on the machine and have had it for 5 days, so I am just past 7 hours a night average. I’d like to get to 8 hours.

I’m going to take a sleeping pill tomorrow night and try to get to sleep for 8 hours. It is always hard to sleep the night before new students and I’ll be getting my summer school students tomorrow.

Just heard from the nurse at the cardiologist.

I got back an equivocal study. The nurse said that was common in women and that 8 out of 10 times, it comes back normal. Equivocal means that the doctor could not see certain parts of the heart because a muscle was blocking the view.

The doctor even said that my uncontrolled gastric reflux could be causing the problem.

I will be getting a test, basically a CT scan with iodine that replaces the old catherization. It takes about 30 minutes. I probably won’t hear from the lab that needs to do the test for at least anyother week.

She recommends that I keep my activity level about the same, but not make any major changes or add to my program until we get the test done. She also agree, because of the local weather conditions that I do cut some of my agility practice runs in half.

In other words, don’t panic. I hate waiting.

Commenter just mentioned the Minimed Continuous Glucose monitor. I emailed this reply:

Yeah, but you have to do business with Minimed. They have screwed over way to many diabetics to suit me, and I almost got suckered into their pump during the waterproof debacle.

And to add — I can’t believe their sales reps, either.