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I have 2 days to go and have managed it so far. What? yeah, I haven’t shared with anyone. Not husband or trainer.

I have been trying to walk an hour everyday I’ve been off. I do that a lot weekends and I didn’t realize non haul it is.

Ihave never counted shopping trips as part of the time and I have done some of that almost every day.

Right now I am having trouble doing the last six minutes.

I would like to wish everyone who reads this blog a Happy Thanksgiving.

I have lots to be thankful for. 

First, my students.  I really enjoy the kiddos I have this year.  Of course, I always do, that’s the fun part of teaching.

Next I am thankful for my husband and my beagles.  Both keep me sane.

The next thing I am thankful for is my medical team.  That includes my primary care, my endo, my sleep doctor, the DME, the Fitness Diabetes team and even the Shrink Yourself team.

Finally, I am thankful for diabetes technology that helps me to get through the day.

And this happened earlier in the day.

About 12 weeks ago, I signed up for Shrink Yourself.  It’s at http://www.shrinkyourself.com, and it’s about emotional eating.

I was really afraid of it, and got worse and worse about participating in it.  To the point, I really wasn’t.

So this morning, during the 11th week of membership, I emailed them and asked if I could start over. I was even prepared to fork over another membership fee, and I guess what.

THEY DID IT!  They completely reset my program and I’m starting from scratch.

Definitely worth the bucks, and I am really planning on working to the full this time.

 Put a new sensor in this morning and it never did start working right.

Here’s a picture:

So I called Dexcom tech support, hooked up the sensor and sent them the data.  They agreed it was bad, and are sending a new sensor and a return kit.  That’s good, because that gives me a second “emergency” sensor.  I love the way they package the single sensors, as I can just tuck the box in my emergency kit.

That’s the first time I’ve had a sensor start out bad, but I am thinking it is the second sensor in the same lot. 

So far, I’m on my third box of 4, I think, and I’ve had three sensors fail. One was a 3 day sensor and I just put it in wrong.  One failed in the middle, I thought caused by downloading data, and then this one.

Got my labs back this morning vin secure email.  A1C is 7.1 which is a darn site better than the last A1c this summer — 7.7.

I did leave an email asking him if there was any way we could bring it down.

Since my last visit I’ve lost S lbs. Don’t have A1C yet. My biggest concern wasn’t met, which is Symlin. He didn’t know the pen is coming out. He had even see the rep and still did not know. Not a  problem, it is not supposed to be out until December and that is at least 2 weeks away.

I will just email them when it is available.

My runs went better than they’ve gone in a way, but still no Q’s.  I still need to get faster, meaning lose a bit more weight, get better on my conditioning, etc.

One of the judges made a comment I wanted to object to at the time.  We had arrived at the site yesterday to find no electricity, and it was too dark to run in the building.  She said, “remember, this isn’t the cure to cancer” when we were talking about whether or not individual dogs should run.  However, I beg to differ, and several other people with chronic diseases felt the same way.

Dog agility might not be a cure for cancer or another other chronic disease but it IS a way to help me manage and enjoy my chronic disease.  I will be honest, if it weren’t for dog agility I wouldn’t be monitoring my health as much and I would not have a need to be physically active.

However, I still wouldn’t have run with out lighting.  Not only do I worry about Marcie’s older eyes being able to see the course, I had trouble seeing the course.

As it was, the lights came on just in time, and Marcie and I had the first clean standard run in a while.

 Amy blogs about her test strips.

Back in the summer I was having a little fun bemoaning the trail of all those used test strips that seems to follow me everywhere I go.

Diabetes Mine: Test Strip Art

Back when I was sentenced to teach in a portable with no technology (don’t worry, not only did I GET technology going there, BUT I escaped back to my old room), there actually was a trial of test strips from my portable to the dumpster.  Not a thick trail, but definitely could be followed — goes to show how cheap the trash bags my district uses.  Apparently one or two escaped each day they cleaned my room.

Seriously. 

We’ve had some good advances this year.  I’m not sure when the Ultra Mini came out but we’ve got two really small meters now (Freestyle Flash and Ultra Mini).

Symlin is coming out in a pen in a few weeks.

Now Dexcom 7 will work with any meter.

That’s going to make the amount of stuff I have to carry significantly smaller.  All good things.