Category: Current Status

noncompliant

What’s your A1c?

Kassie blogged about A1C’s, and how one person’s gidd A1C number is another person’s bad one.

For example, my A1C is 6.6. Most people would be happy with that, but my last A1C was 6.0.

Don’t get me wrong, a 6.6 is NOT a bad A1C at all. It takes a lot of work to get there. It’s winter — and research shows that diabetics A1C does go up in the winter, plus we’ve just gotten through the holidays.

I just want to reemphasis — be careful how you react to an A1C, and maybe a smilie rather than a number would be better!

Currentlly waiting to see my endo. I personally don’t have anything new to deal with but my lab results weren’t good.

He was concerned about some values that indicate dehydration and we want to check next month.

There several possibilities. The anti-inflammatory for my feet and knee. My blood pressure medication. Avoiding going to the bathroom since it is so far away.

I think I’ll try one solution since my blood pressure is controlled. Half the diuretic.

He considers me a low maintenance patient.

I had to get up EARLY to get to the hunt test. Google maps indicated it would take 2 1/2 hours — but I may have calculated wrong, because I made it in 1 1/2. However, if I had gone during rush hour, it would have taken the full 2 1/2.

My postpranial after breakfast was 180, but I decided not to correct as it looked like I was going to be on my feet and walking for a while. I think that was a good choice. I also had some lovely sausage and cheese bread at the hunt test site, and bolused for a regular piece of bread — I think that worked out well, when I got done with Marcie’s turn, I was at 120. And it was about two hours after the bread.

I had some problems with the knee today, which I was expected. The PT kicked butt last night, it was all strength and stretching, and I was sore when I got up. Sitting in the truck for an 1 1/2 hours didn’t help it.

I got smart. I took Marcie and my chair out during the second dog’s turn, and then ditched the chair during dog 3’s turn, so we’d be ready. One of the other handlers took it back to the sidelines for me.

Marcie and I walked steadily in very rough terrain for our full turn — 30 minutes. Like I said, my blood sugar after was good.

I ate lunch with the club and then came home. I got sleepy driving and I’m very proud of how I handled it. Instead of getting candy — something my dad taught me, but is dumb because the sugar makes me sleepier, I stopped at a Subway and got nice big salad. That got me home.

I crashed when I got home, and then woke up at 5:00 pm with a blood sugar of 140. Not a bad diabetes day.

The knee is still bothering me. I’m fine when I sit, but the longer I sit, the stiffer I am when I get up.

It was really nice that my health issues didn’t get in the way of a planned day.

Tonight was a tough strength session. When we finished, my blood sugar was below 110 when I got done.

Today went well. The Algebra I kiddos did well on the computers, we got our activity done — 7th period finished a bit early, but they usually do.

I was on my feet all day, and was in pretty good shape at the end of the day.

I have to be out of the house by 5:00 am tomorrow to get Marcie is a hunt test. More on that when we survive!

No pain this morning! I figured I might have some problems this morning.

The good news, is that I won’t be climbing the stairs as much today. I’ll be in one of my friends computer labs with the Algebra kids, go back to my room for the non-English speakers, and then back in her room for the end of the day. The computer labs are upstairs.

I think I am ready for today. It’s going to be very interesting. We haven’t done this before.

Don’t know how I feel about this. This is the news I’ve been hinting at.

Was told by the principal that they couldn’t find a new CS teacher and didn’t want to lose the PreAP/AP CS program. They can find an ESL teacher. I get to keep my Algebra I repeaters. 35 x 3 of the most interesting students you’ll every meet — right now, the new ones are tagging my room (graffitt) and stealing stuff — we got over that in September, I hoped, but I have a different set of kids. I get to stay in my room with them. We had a very high passing rate last semester, but many of them had passed 2nd semester and were only lacking first semester.

I get to go to the computer lab three classe periods and teach in that room for 4 days. For one day, I get to teach them in someone else’s class room for three periods. Longer story. Not worth getting into.

They haven’t had any instruction since school started.

Bet I lose more weight.

I will do what is best for my kids and for my school I’m also not sure I’m the best teacher for the ESL students I have right now — most of them are extremely low level — we have moved all but one student who had talent in math. Many of them have not gone to school before they came to ours. Some weren’t allowed, some didn’t have schools, and in one sad case, no one cared enough to make him go to school. I can teach high school math to non-English speakers who have some skills — they are doing well in the higher level course. I am not doing well with kids who don’t have skills.

Don’t know when the job change will happen.

I feel like the saint of lost causes — but then that was what I was unofficially canonized for when I was in college — I tutored handicapped students taking CS and the CS professors got together and unofficially canonized me for it. Hey, the pay was $20.00 an hour when Work Study pay was under $3.00 who wouldn’t do it.

I’ve blogged about it before and left a comment for his blog. I am definately allergic to Humalog.

Diabetes – Allergic To Medicine

The full prescribing information for several insulins, including Lantus, Levemir, Humalog, and Humulin, all warn about allergic reactions. They say that these reactions are rare.

Yep, it wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t graceful, I wasn’t where I needed to be all the time, but the dogs and I managed to make it through 1 1/2 classes of dog agility.

I did all of Maggie’s runs — they were pretty flowing and only a couple of front crosses — they hurt the worse — in front cross, you get in front of the dog and turn in front of them. As you might imagine, it’s hard on the knee. I do better with rear crosses as you drift behind the dog’s path to do those. Basically dog is ahead of you, and you move to the other side of the obstacle. Front crosses cause tighter turns than rear crosses, but like I said, you have to rotate on the knee and you are usually digging in and planting.

Marcie’s runs were tougher as they were in the barn, tighter, and almost all front crosses. We only did have the class, two courses, and the first one really bit us inthe butts. We both made mistakes. Marcie felt mama pain vibes and was running slow. Mother was behind all the time, even behind slow Marcie.

She’s a good dog though as she compensated for me on the second run and was perfect. Again not graceful, and I caused her some time wasting, but we got through it.

Best yet, is that even though I was still and sore when I got home, the hot tub releived most of the pain.

I love my PT!

It feels almost 100% this morning. I hope it stays this way though I’ll probably mess it up tonight.

Next two days are going to be a mess. I have to get the furnace fixed this afternoon — provided the part is avaiable. I’m going to check on that fairly early. Have to get my CDE appointment fixed, since they want to cancel on me. Probably just skip it as I see the endo that day. She’s over booked.

I have to profile my students, which means giving them a practice test. That means getting copies. One of our copiers are down, and it’s the hardest to use for this job anyway. Hopefully the co-op teacher will let me borrow her copier since i’m careful to use it for emergencies and I gave her reams of paper.

Of course, I was told this yesterday evenng.

That’s not a big problem, since I really don’t want to start a new unit tomorrow. Grading and profiling is going to be a pain and will probably have to be done on Monday.

Because of my mystery news (which might not happen), I’m trying to keep everything graded, everything planned, and everything ready to go at a moment’s notice.

It feels almost 100% this morning. I hope it stays this way though I’ll probably mess it up tonight.

Next two days are going to be a mess. I have to get the furnace fixed this afternoon — provided the part is avaiable. I’m going to check on that fairly early. Have to get my CDE appointment fixed, since they want to cancel on me. Probably just skip it as I see the endo that day. She’s over booked.

I have to profile my students, which means giving them a practice test. That means getting copies. One of our copiers are down, and it’s the hardest to use for this job anyway. Hopefully the co-op teacher will let me borrow her copier since i’m careful to use it for emergencies and I gave her reams of paper.

Of course, I was told this yesterday evenng.

That’s not a big problem, since I really don’t want to start a new unit tomorrow. Grading and profiling is going to be a pain and will probably have to be done on Monday.

Because of my mystery news (which might not happen), I’m trying to keep everything graded, everything planned, and everything ready to go at a moment’s notice.