Category: Current Status

They have driven me over the edge …. I’m going to try to double up on Protonix as long as I can — but I’ve surrendered and am letting Medco call the terms.

First, the Case Authorization I’ve been checking on all week was for the wrong medication. ARGH! They did however, authorize Protonix through June, but my doctor has to write a new prescription if we want twice a day. I can’t go through this anymore, so I just requested the regular one a day amount and will go to one a day. I need to be a bit more careful about what I eat in the evenings anyway.

I rethought this and decided to go for one more try — left a message on my doctor’s patient line telling them that they need to change the prescription so I will get two a day. Hopefully that will work, but if it doesn’t, at least I’ve got another 3 months of Prontonix coming.

Got up this morning, blood sugar was at 124 — I’d like it to be lower, corrected and later ate breakfast. Tested two hours after breakfast bolus and was at 154, tested two hours later, and was at 233.

Site feels fine, so I have no idea why it is higher, but I am experiencing symthoms of higher blood sugar, tired, blurred vision, etc.

ARGH!

Good news though — it is going back down.

Even better news — my blood sugar has been lower all day.

I think I’m just adjusting back to the work week basal levels and schedule. I hate that too high sluggish feeling though.

Got a message from my doctor’s office that they had received notification that my Protonix prescription had been approved.

I was needlessly panicing. I thought I had less than a week’s worth of Protonix, maybe two, but still had a bottle of 45 on the shelf.

One of the things that helps me when I don’t meet my goals, is to sit down and figure out why. I know why, but I feel the need to list things.

The primary reason why I haven’t met my weight goals, is that my life got completely disrupted in January. I went from 2 preps to 6 — and lately back to 5 preps. Also 4 of the preps are infinity harder to deal with than the other two.

The other reason is my knee injury. A couple of weeks before the schedule change I injured my knee to the point I couldn’t walk and needed physical therapy. That’s gone well, but took up 2 hours a day.

It’s just been in the past few weeks that I’ve been able to exercise again on a regular basis. It’s also been just in the past few weeks that my sleep schedule has gotten back to normal.

The good news is that I haven’t lost too much ground and things are getting back to normal.

Sad for me, but happy for her, my CDE left my endo’s practice to become a rep for a pump company. I’m happy for her, but disappointed I don’t have a CDE. The good news is that there were some issues that need to be resolved that I hadn’t dealt with. Basically I needed to have some lab tests redone.

They gave me several weeks worth of Protonix, so I think I’ll go back on 2 a day tonight. I was refluxing badly this morning, lots of coughing even though I had not eaten.

Blood sugars are good, I’m just having to recover from the stress attacks. Hopefully things will calm down for the rest of the school year.

I sat down this weekend and wrote a letter to the doctor explaining exactly what I wanted and how I felt about him not complying with my requests but….

called Medco’s 1-800 Case Review line first to make sure I knew exactly what was going on. They stated that the doctor had not called and started a case review but made a better offer. They faxed the doctor a case review form — which the doctor’s office has received. I’m watching Medco’s site like a hawk to see what ends up happening with this.

We had a good agility day today. Marcie ran perfect, I made mistakes and learned something interesting — I really DO need to move with her, especially on a hot day. Maggie wouldn’t down on the table and is still having weave problems, but the rest of her runs were great.

The best news though, is that my blood sugar has been stable all weekend. I have kept the carb level down this run, as I’m trying to get my TDD down.

According to the Medco website, my doctor has YET to do the coverage review on my Prilosec. I expressed my disgust at this at the agility trial this afternoon and at first my friends were teasing me, and didn’t realize just how spitting tacks mad I was.

So here’s my rant … I have a good medical team that gets paid well and on time. I have good insurance — BCBS of Texas and I pay any of my charges within 30 days of being billed, usually faster. I expect return service.

First, I called my prescription service and determined exactly how to handle the request. I made a specific office visit to discuss the request. I am bothered, that rather than doing what I told him had to happen, he decided to ignore the request and just fax a prescription.

Thus, I got half the medication I need.

I then faxed a request, and verified that it was received (had problems with that), and left a message on the patient line again requested that the directions on the fax be followed. Doctor’s response? He would have his girls fax the request. Well, guess what, that was NOT what was requested on the fax.

I don’t understand. I would understand if I got a message on the patient line saying he did it and it wasn’t approved.

For us it was good…

Marcie made half a mistake (well, I’m calling it half of one), as she got her head past the wrong weave pole, but corrected her mistake when I told her — so we didn’t Q in standard. She was also very slow because it was muggy and starting to get warm — she’s a Vermont beagle…

I completely screwed up the beginning of Maggie’s run and she gave up in disgust. I had to promise a bribe but she was perfect after that. It was her first excellent run (the class excellent, not the style).

Then Marcie ran the exact same course, the way I wanted to run it, not the mucked up version and Qed, 5 seconds over time She is a Preferred dog for sure.

Then Maggie and I were not on the same wave length for Open Standard, I put her over a jump wrong, she wouldn’t sit on the table, and she mucked up the weaves, but since we were already NQ, I decided not to push the issue.

I’m trying to get a specialist trainer to come to the house and help me set up some exercises to fix the girls weaves. We went to a workshop last week with her, and I figure having her come over and get me started right will help.

But for another handler and dog it was very very sad. I had just arrived when I heard a dog screaming. I was told later that the handler had crossed into the dog’s path and stepped on the dog. We later found out it was a spiral compund fracture and will be repaired on Monday.

There is a good part. They immediately set up a donation jar, and at 1:00 pm it was looking very full. The giving club said they would match donations to pay for the dog’s surgery and one of the vendors had a raffle set up and also pledged half the of the proceeds. I contributed and bought raffle tickets.

I hope the dog comes out okay and feel very badly for the handler.

I figured out why my doctor didn’t get my fax … I was sending it to the wrong number. Oddly, the automated lines don’t tell you the fax number so I had to call the office.

Hopefully this was straighten things out, but if not, I’m on Spring Break next week and can do it in person.