Category: Current Status

First– why did I put the agility photos up and tell my readers about it. Well, it was time I outed myself a bit further, plus, I do use the dog agility to measure how I am doing health wise. Dog and I are at a plateau right now, but we are at least having a good time.

I watched Winona Judd on Oprah today. I made a special effort to see this one. I really sympathize with her. I heard my mother’s voice in Naomi, but at least I wasn’t lied to most of my life. Several times I wanted to strangle her. Winona seems to be having a much harder time with her weight — she measure her progress in her voice.

I’ve been braving the cold temperature of our pool — it’s been at 78 degrees pretty consistently. I’ve managed to get in the last three days, and burn off a bit more calories.

Insulin pump is surviving the pool nicely as is the inseratation site. I really haven’t seen any difference. Of course, I’m only in the pool for 10 minutes

You think that cold pool would wake me up, but I am still getting sleepy in the early evening.

And yeah, we have a pool. I think it’s mandatory in Texas, especially once you get to a certain price level in house. We weren’t looking for a pool when we found the house, and we’ve always had the option of pulling it — it’s an above ground pool, but so far, it’s one of our favorite spots in the summer.

Of course, it’s a huge, dirty hole in the ground in the winter, even though we have the pool guy come out weekly. I live in horror of one of the neighbor children getting in the yard and drowning in the pool, but at least ours won’t be nasty and murky if it happens.

Yeah, we have a padlock on the fence but sometimes those kiddos can be bound and determined. A few years ago, I heard of a child who was visiting someone that went through the dog door to get to the pool. Yeah, we have one of those too, but at least the kiddo would have to also dig out of the dog run. Of course, Maggie does that all the time….

I’ve had the Treo for almost a week now. It is working out far better than any expectations.

Not only does EZManager work as well as it has on any other Palm device but so does my other apps. I honestly don’t miss the screen resolution. Even my pictures.

I’m in the process of uploading our spring agility photos. See http://www.kweaver.org/photos/

ComputerZen.com – Scott Hanselman’s Weblog – Scott’s Diabetes Explanation: The Airplane Analogy

Though it’s sad that the Type 1’s seem not to get the Type 2’s. And this Type 2 is handling it the Type 1 way, since it is the best way to deal with it.

Provigil — anti-narcolepsy drug — tried it for a few days and really didn’t like it. Would much rather sleep and fix the problem that way.

And it definately screwed with my blood sugar. I was consistently — all day, around 20 units higher than normal. Blood sugar is back down where I like it.

I am sleeping a bit better, but am still waking up.

The best move is that the scale is moving in the right direction!

Saw my MD sleep doctor yesterday. Was almost at the end of my rope, tired, which they could all see. That was good.

I asked for pain pills and we compromised with a 24-hour anti-inflammatory which seems to help already. Felt better going to bed, and feel better today.

Also got a narcolepsy drug also labeled for OSA (obstructive sleep apnea), for the sleepiness, but so far, I think it just makes me want to toss my cookies more. I think that is a symthom of not enough sleep too.

They also sent me home with an oxymeter. So here I am, sleeping with a CPAP, an insulin pump, and the oxymeter. I got completely woud up in the mess and had to take about 5 minutes to get unwrapped around 1:30. Husband was dumb enough to ask if I slept okay. NO, I DIDN’T! But I think they got good data, as I woke when I often do.

I’ve been going through a weird cycle — hopefully we can get this fixed. I get progressively more tired, more strung out, then finally get to a point that I sleep the sleep of the dead — often as much as 10 hours (machine showed this to the doctor). I predict that really good sleep is going to hit in the next couple of days. Or at least I hope.

I also wake up a lot during these cycles. Last two nights were around 4 times. I usually only have to get up once — but do have a bit of trouble falling asleep, especially when bond in medical cords

FYI: being tired seems to increase my insulin resistance slightly. I’m consistently running 10-20 points higher both yesterday and today, and have the temporary basal on.

Husband and I were both very ill at the same time with something that caused vomiting and diarrah. We’ve never been sick at the same time before and it didn’t go well. Usually there is someone in the house available to go get whatever we’re out of that the other person craves. Not this time.

We’re both feeling better now, and have restocked on “sick” food.

Weight loss is going super, and I’m using less insulin than I ever have, finally. I met with my CDE about it on Wednesday, and got some good ideas on how to proceed. We’ve agreed to meet monthly. I’ve gone from 100-120 units a day to 50-60 units a day, total. AND I have much better control.

I’ve lost somewhere around 15 pounds, I think, since I don’t know my max — the scale was broke when I started and I thought I weighed twenty pounds less.

Sleep isn’t going well at all, but being sick didn’t help that. I’m seeing the sleep medical doctor on Thursday. I’ve come to the conclusion that I probably need to take some light pain pill — but heavier than OTC a few hours before bedtime and that would solve most of it.

Also getting rid of the gastric reflux coughing too, but I think some of that will come with more weight loss.

The other really good thing is that I’ve been able to work out in the morning at least 6 days out of 7 — and still get the workout down in the afternoon.

April 24, 2004

I’m very proud of myself, because my pump tweaks are working well. HOWEVER, I’m calling Monday and asking for a new pump because last night the occulsion alarm went off again and this time I slept for 3 hours.

The good news, is that my blood sugar was 117 when I woke up.

iShape and the personal gym in the house is working out extremely well. iShape gives me a means of tracking and the support I was missing from the gym that closed.

Having the gym at home cuts down on the excuses, especially morning ones, and I’ve been able to do most of my working out in the morning since I got the new CPAP mask and got the insulin adjusted correctly. Both are contributed to the lack of morning grogginess.

I am guessing I’ve lost at least 15 pounds, but since I don’t really know what my highest weight is, that is only a guess.

The good news is insulin usage. Last night, I cut my midnight to 4:00 am basal to 0.95, from 1.0, cut my 4:00 am to 8:00 am basal to 1.10 from 1.30 and my 8:00 am on basal to 1.05 from 1.10. I’m not sure how that all refects in total basal yet, or in total insulin usage, but most days I’m in the 60-65 units a day range right now. And that’s with good control. I occasionally still have a bad day, but since it takes almost a week to recover from a bad day, I think I’ll be avoiding them more and more.

I see my CDE on Wednesday to work on planning for more weight loss.