YES!!!!!!! YEAH! This will make life easier. I had to come back home on Monday because I forgot my cable and had just started a new sensor.
DexCom Inc. (NASDAQ:DXCM) Friday said it received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to calibrate Seven, its seven-day continuous glucose monitoring system, using any FDA-cleared blood glucose meter.
DexCom gets FDA OK to calibrate Seven, its continuous glucose monitoring system
Again, I won’t add happy. But please fill out the Diabetes Technology Survey
I put my latest sensor in on Monday morning, which should get me through to the beginning of next week and past the dog show.
Dummy me forgets the cable so I had to come back home and get it. And went a few extra sets of hours without numbers <smile>
And the numbers since in have been very close to the meter.
I will say that I’ve lost my discipline to test since Dexcom. I missed a lot of tests on the weekend and my blood sugar did get out of control.
The “Dallas-area police officer” was one of my best friends. Honestly, I’m not sure he even deserves to die at this point, since it is something he wants.
Rodriguez, one of the “Texas 7” convicts who escaped from a state prison in 2000 and killed a Dallas-area police officer while on the lam, has dropped his appeals and wants to die.
I actually THOUGHT that yesterday was the 9th. But just in the evening. Think I was wishing for Friday. But then, since I was probably the first diabetes blog and certainly the oldest dblog maybe posting early was a good idea. Besides, the way that life is lately, I might not have gotten to it today.
FYI, my first post was in February 2003! That’s OLD in blog years.
I got into blogging because one of my dreams is to write a textbook for my students. I haven’t decided which group of students, but that’s okay, it will come some day. Teachers write textbooks when they are frustrated with the ones in existence. And I have written much of the curriculum for my kiddos.
Everything I’ve read about writing, is that you have to practice the skill, just like any other skill. I know I’m not a story telling. That’s okay, because the writing I’ve done all my career has been technical writing, and textbook writing AND this blog is just an extension.
Career — technical writing — yeah, I identify myself, first and foremost as a programmer. As I tell my students, if you can’t document what you do as a programmer, you might as well not. I am quite sure that over 60% of what I did professionally involved writing documentation, not code.
Picking diabetes and my overall health secondary was a good choice. It allows me to vent when I get frustrated and allows me to collect information and share it. Lots of times I’ve been a pioneer in using something. Both Symlin and Dexcom come to mind. Especially since I’m often one of the first Type 2’s to try new technology.
Anyway, blogging has been good. I’ve tried and do have blog about teaching, but there are a lot of things I just can’t blog about when it comes to my teaching life.
I can’t say Happy when it comes to diabetes, especially since for me, it’s a dark shadow that follows me always. Watching someone die of diabetes was NOT fun.
I decided to go without Dexcom for a few days. The current sensor stopped working — and man it was a good sensor. Lasted 10 days, and was accurate the whole time.
However, if I put in a new sensor today, I’ll have a sensor failure during a dog show next weekend, and it’s not something I want to deal with. I’m going to try going without until Monday.
I think it is probably a good idea to give my skin a bit of a rest anyway. The Dexcom is hard on it.
This is the first I’ve been without CGMS I started in July.
It’s definitely screwing me up, but then it doesn’t take much.
How many of us woke up Monday morning this week an hour earlier than the actual time because our bodies were still on Daylight Savings Time? Millions, probably.
I’ve been very disappointed with my IR2020. I got the silver one, and have always had a black pump before.
Though the biggest disappointment should have anything to do with the pump color the screen has been scratching badly. Which is odd, because I keep my pump in my bra.
So yesterday I called — I also wanted to verify when my pump warranty expires since I’m seeing the endo a week from Tuesday. I let them know what I thought and they immediately offered to send a new pump — surprising because there has been times lately when they seemed to be hesitant, but it just might be who answers the phone.
I switched back to the black, and received the new one today.
The really nice thing was how quick I was in action. Downloaded the old pump, downloaded the settings and the food database. Uploaded the settings and then the food database and back in business.
I’ll be sending the silver one back tomorrow evening.
In honor of D-Blog day, a few thoughts on being diabetic.
I’m most probably a Type 2. I was diagnosed when I was 42. Same birth year that my father was diagnosed. I’m rabid about taking care of the diabetes as best I can since he passed away at birth year 48 with congestive heart failure, probably due to diabetes complications.
Here’s the good news. I’ll be 48 in December. So far, I’m doing well. Recently had a retinal map, no signs of complications. Still feel my feet and my hands are doing well. I’m still running dog agility so I’m doing infinity better than he was.
I thank the technology. I started testing religiously as soon as I was diagnosed.
Went to insulin very early. Within in a year when on an insulin pump. Am currently on CGMS.
Still, I feel the clock ticking.
I’ve been there. In fact, I’m sort of there today. Husband left at around 4:00 am this morning and I couldn’t go back to sleep. Not only am I cranky, but I hurt.
Experience tells us that sleepless nights can lead to overwrought emotions. Now scientists have uncovered some of the first evidence of how this occurs. Their imaging studies show that lack of sleep can lead to greater activation of the brain’s emotional centers and disrupt the brain circuits that tame emotional responses.
Source: Sleep Education.com