Things continued going well. Marcie was very fast — even weaving in rhythm however, she’s not the confident, do what mom says dog that she was in our earlier days.
She made mistakes because I trusted in her, and didn’t handle as hard as I should have.
Maggie finally finished Novice, so that made up for the rest of the day. I have vidoes and I’m going to try to post them.
We are doing our first dog agility trial since the end of June.
Quoting my agility instructor: “Marcie was flying!”
She missed the table and the weavepole entry she was going so fast but Qed in JWW.
She took a fourth place in Jumpers, first in about a year.
Then I got real lucky with Maggie in Open Jumpers. She started off without listening to me and took a wrong course. However the judged blew her whistle and stopped us which Maggie took as a correction. We got to restart and she ran a perfect course and took first place.
Our standard course was also good but she just would not listen to me at the table.
All in all, 2 Qs and 2 placements meant for a good day all around and much better than we’d been having.
Marcie had seemed very down last Spring and I was thinkging of retiring her.
I just removed Sensor 2. Or did it remove itself? Basically the adhesive failed.
It lasted for 12 days. Costing $5.00 a day for those of you keeping up. Worth the cost. Yep!
It was extremely accurate. I’m very pleased with the results I’ve been having. In fact, I’m doing to finger sticking only when the Dexcom SeVen asks for one.
I actually would have liked this sensor to last one more day — I’m doing an agility trial this weekend, BUT the good news is that my Friday, Dexcom should be extremely accurate again.
I received the “sensor is going to expire” icon this morning. So, I ended the sensor and restarted it.
The bandage part of the sensor seems to be in good shape — in fact better than the last sensor.
The sensor has been extremely accurate. I’ve drastically cut down on finger sticks this week, and have been dosing based on the receiver. It’s working well. I haven’t gone low all week and the few times I’ve gone high, I knew why.
I think I finally got the spelling right. The doctor doing the injections initially got caught in jury duty today. So my doctor did them.
They have different approaches. The first doctor said he liked just doing them with spray to numb them. They didn’t see to take as long that way.
My doctor numbed with injections first, then did the Synvist with a light amount of cold spray at the beginning.
The first two shots made my knees hurt, but not excessively afterwards. This one I didn’t feel until late afternoon. I felt a bit of crunching running in class tonight (bone hitting bone, ouch), but not bad.
Overall since the initial shots, I have been feeling less pain and doing more activity.
So I put this sensor in on 8/10. I was a bit disconcerted to see that it was running a tad off of the One Touch but put it out of my head. Had a lot of other stuff going on.
So tonight, I did dog agility (yeah in this heat), and our instructor brought us Italian chocolate (well, chocolate purchased in Italy). I are one piece during Maggie’s class and one during Marcie’s — a bit after, Dexcom goes off. Which freaked my instructor out, and sure enough I’m running high.
I go ahead and keep going without a correction, because I’m doing a fair amount of running. Check afterwards, and Dexcom said I was at 258. One Touch said I was at 253. Can’t get much better than that.
And yes, I’ve been dosing off of Dexcom most of the time, have cut down my finger sticks drastically, but do check if Dexcom doesn’t feel right. I’ve also been extremely aggressive on my control, I’ve set my pump to alarm at 1 hour. I eat, reset my pump with a 0 bolus at 1 hour, then check every hour and correct off of Dexcom. That has been helping to solve the problem where I’ve been going off on high excursions — causing the high A1C.
I’ve also made another change. I was not bolusing for meals and then walking on the treadmill. It did prevent lows but was causing the escalating highs. Now, I bolus for half the carbs, and then correct. I’m not having to correct as much (often not at all), and no more of the excursions.
Of course, I’ll have to find another plan in a few months.
Just went out to try to order a set of sensors, and I’m off on my pricing. They are $60 a piece, so if my sensors last 15 days, they cost $4.00 a day. That does not work out to be much difference between the 3 day sensor.
So far, the current sensor is doing well, though I’ve only had it in one day.
I woke up this morning, checked my receiver and it had the “no sensor” display on it. Looked at my transmitter/sensor, and sure enough it had come off in the night.
So I managed to make my first sensor last 15 days. Not bad. Makes the cost come to $4.33 per day.
Also Dexcom saved my butt twice from lows yesterday, so I’m doubly pleased.
Husband and I are taking a few days to vacation together. We decided not to travel anywhere but to do local tourist stuff.
So I reset my 1st sensor — and took over this morning. I will say Dexcom saved my butt as I didn’t plan ahead as well as I should have.
We went to the Fort Worth Stockyards and took a walking tour there. Dexcom showed I was around 100, but the good news was there was candy handy, so I spent grabbed some M&Ms, and munched on them as we walked.
By the way it was very nice.
Yep, I’m on Day 13 of my first sensor. I do think I might go ahead and put in a new sensor tomorrow, but haven’t completely decided.
Numbers are still good, but I notice that as time goes on, I get more missing readings.
If I can consistently get sensors to last 14 days, then the cost will be $4.60 per day for the sensors. The bad news that cost is still about twice as much as the 3 day sensors were costing because I was get them to last at least 9 days which comes to about $3.89 a day.