Category: Current Status

I’m about halfway on both of my classes. We just finished Week 5, and the term is 10 weeks.

I’ve got a perfect score so far in the Readings class. We have 4 more weeks of discussions, I’ve done my turn as discussion leader, and we have two major assignments. One is an annotated bibliography, and I have the entries found and identified. I would like to have 5 more, since a couple of the readings were provided by the instructors. We also have a final — essay form.

The telecommunications class is going well too. I’ve lost 4 1/2 points so far on the assignments. We have two left, the research project which I am doing on WiMAX, and the last assignment which they haven’t told us how to do yet. We have a face-to-face on Tuesday, which should help.

I think it is all do able.

This round of episodes is heads above the first round. In fact, I recommend burning those

Tonight’s was good — focused on advocacy and on training. Am I the only one that kind of thought the congressman was withholding?

I’m really glad they no longer do group interviews!

I really hope they can get a different time slot. Being up against 60 Minutes is not a good idea, and not everyone DVRs.

The ‘betes: Focusing on the pump

As I posted on her blog though, I’ll keep mine, thank you

The problem is that I sit too still. Two hours after breakfast, one and half hours in the workshop, I’m at 165. Normal for me then with that meal, is 135-145.

Before 11:00 I’m at 185 without eating anything! So I did a correction and cranked up the basal 10% and I’m at 165 at 12:00. Eat lunch, test 2 hours, and I’m up to 185 again. Basal had run out so I cracked up to 20%.

Next time, going in, I’m just going to do the 20% and be done with it.

FYI: Before the pump, I’d hit 300-400 at a teacher workshop and be sicker than a dog at the end of the day, so I’m doing better.

We had our neighborhood parade today.

I actually walked in the parade this year, which I think may be a first, but certainly it has been at least 3 years since I walked it.

This is something I really think is cool. Our “block” faces a park, and the neighbors who have been here the longest have been organizing it. I think they are ready to pass it on to the younger generation, and I’m hoping the younger moms will take it on.

Today is my weigh in day. I’ve been ignoring most of them, but right now, I weigh the least I have weighed this summer.

I think I am finally destressed and I do think the Symlin is helping. It definately makes controlling eating easier.

Byetta is a new injectable for Type 2s on some oral medications, so I can’t help you with that one. However, there is a discussion forum for it at the Diabetes Blog.

Diabetes.Blog.Com :: Discussion forum: Byetta

I personally call it lizard spit.

Byetta is a new injectable for Type 2s on some oral medications, so I can’t help you with that one. However, there is a discussion forum for it at the Diabetes Blog.

Diabetes.Blog.Com :: Discussion forum: Byetta

I personally call it lizard spit.

A commenter has asked if there are resources for diabetic pumpers without insurance.

I don’t know much about obtaining insurance independently — I’m “lucky”, one of the compensations for being a teacher is having decent insurance — at least compared to my husband’s company.

However, when I went on the pump, the pump itself and supplies were not covered, and I had to pay for everything myself for 6 months. I was able to obtain some supplies through ebay at an extremely reasonable cost. Be careful, because once, the cartridges I obtained were expired. Ask specifically for expiration dates.

Also the insulin pumpers group at http://www.insulinpumpers.org “exchanges” supplies. Whenever I get too much of something, I ship them to the IP headquarters and they send them to someone in need. For example, when I switched pumps, I had serveral boxes of the old cartridges that I no longer needed.

I’m still bummed the 600 broke and my provider only had 650s, but I figured out what was going on with the 650 and I am liking it better.

The user manual says not to sync to another device of a different type, and boy I should have listened. After doing a hard reset, clearing everything and reinstalling from scratch, I have 10 mb left rather than 1 mb.

I do like the better screen resolution.