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  • Can’t sleep — Marcie is in jail — I hope

    We got new telephone / Internet service today.

    I am not going to blame anyone person, especially both my husband and I are also responsible.  As the U-Verse tech was leaving, the Orkin guy came by, so it could be him too.

    After the install, I let the girls out and then back in.  Then I loaded up and took the boxes back to Time Warner.

    Husband came in while I was out and let the girls out too.  When we let them back in, there were only two beagles.  The best beagle, oldest, best trained and most wonderful was missing.  Marcie.  http://www.kweaver.org/photos if anyone cares.

    We walked up and down the street and through the neighborhood.  Couldn’t find her.  Finally at 8:00 pm I came home and looked her up on petfinders and found:

    I found a sweet older female beagle playing on Josey Ln between Valwood & Valley View. The poor thing nearly got hit during 5:00 traffic, so I stopped & picked her up. I drove around trying to see if anyone was looking for her…no luck so I brought her home. She was wearing a yellow collar with a black & white checkered pattern on it. I had to take her to the Carrollton Shelter…I hope you find her!

    That has to be her.  Just has to.   I’m going to bail her out of jail in the morning and probably can’t sleep until she’s in my bedroom.

  • Animas – Ezmanager Frustrations

    I am really upset with Animas right now.  The good news for them, is that I hate Minimed and Smith is out of network, but if I were getting a new pump today, I wouldn’t be happy buying from them.

    Here’s the deal.  When I got my IR1250 (back when they first shipped), they had a software issue in the food database and had to recall the pump.

    So I upgraded to the IR2020 last spring when I could get the chance.  I believe I was the first upgrade, if not, certainly one of the first.

    However, EzManager doesn’t work with the IR2020, so every since I got it, I’ve been stuck with their food database.  Plus I haven’t been able to upload data.  Okay, I can get bolus history and basal history, but I can’t upload and save pump settings, etc.  Nor do I have it in hard copy to double check. 

    Every time I’ve asked they have said they were shipping soon.  In June I called and they said July.  I finally called yesterday and now they at least gave a date, August 1.

    Yeah, two weeks away.  I really wish they had told me when they shipped the pump that EzManager wasn’t ready.  I am pretty sure I would have said — fine, wait and ship the pump when the software ready.  In fact, I asked that they switch pumps until the software was ready yesterday and they refused. 

    If I don’t see it on August 1st, I think I’m going to start getting real hard to get along with.

  • Dexcom – STS – Working again

    This one IS working again!  I’m probably going to play some games with it later one, but I want to get at least three days out of it before I do.

  • Dexcom Sensor — the 5th one is acting bad

    I’ve already called tech support, and they had me give it two more blood drops and I’m waiting for it to restart.  Still not seeing any data.

    This might mean that I get to use Dexcom 7 today.

  • Dexcom Sensor — 3 day only lasted 3 days

    First, I don’t really mind as I looking forward to using the Dexcom Seven.  I have my last sensor in.

    However, the sensor I put in on Sunday failed on the reset.  It was working fine until I reset it. 

    Several things about it, the adhesive was coming up early.  It was on the right side of my body, and the edges to the sensor were cutting into my skin.  Very strange.

    The latest sensor is on the left side, where I prefer it.  I’m currently waiting for the calibration period.

  • Health Blog : For Diabetes Drugs, Old and Cheap Are Good

    Interesting 

    Old, cheap diabetes drugs — especially a generic called metformin — are as good as or better than newer, more expensive drugs at lowering blood sugar.

    Health Blog : For Diabetes Drugs, Old and Cheap Are Good

  • Dexcom 7 – New System

    I can’t return the sensor <pout>.

    I could use the sensor with the new receiver and transmitter but there is no guarantee that it would be accurate.

    More pout.  I did put this sensor in yesterday, so I’ll just use up these two and then send everything back. 

    I am going to charge up the receiver though.

  • Dexcom 7 is here – Data Manager first

    My Dexcom 7 arrived today along with 4 sensors. 

    The software also came.  I am downloading data as I type.

    The install of the Data Manager was slow but smooth.  That also describes the download of the data. 

    The first thing I did was look at the charts, and I’ll admit, I don’t get all of them.

    The second thing I did was export data.  I have lots of data now, here’s a sample of raw data:

    DisplayTime InternalTime SensorValue
    2007-06-15 15:39:11.010 2007-06-15 20:39:11.010 177
    2007-06-15 15:44:11.010 2007-06-15 20:44:11.010 170
    2007-06-15 15:49:11.010 2007-06-15 20:49:11.010 166
    2007-06-15 15:54:11.010 2007-06-15 20:54:11.010 154
    2007-06-15 15:59:11.010 2007-06-15 20:59:11.010 151
    2007-06-15 16:04:11.010 2007-06-15 21:04:11.010 150
    2007-06-15 16:14:11.020 2007-06-15 21:14:11.020 139
    2007-06-15 16:19:11.010 2007-06-15 21:19:11.010 155
    2007-06-15 16:24:11.010 2007-06-15 21:24:11.010 165
    2007-06-15 16:29:11.010 2007-06-15 21:29:11.010 175
    2007-06-15 16:34:11.010 2007-06-15 21:34:11.010 180
    2007-06-15 16:39:11.010 2007-06-15 21:39:11.010 183

    Next I imported the data into an excel spreadsheet.  It worked out just fine. 

    Hmmm, now that I have this lovely data, I’m not sure what to do with it.

  • Dexcom 7 is here

  • Home!

    I should have posted this first.

    All in all, I did well diabetes wise on the trip. 

    I drove from Dallas to Brandon Mississippi in the RAIN!  Then I drove to Virginia and stopped at Chilhowie.  I also stopped for an afternoon in West Virginia to get my car maintenance done.  That’s done, so I don’t have to worry about it for a time.  Then I drove to Pittsburgh.

    I was in Pittsburgh for a teacher workshop that started Saturday night, and ran all day Sunday through Thursday.  Then it was a half day on Friday.

    I drove to Effingham Illinois, spent the night with family, and then yesterday drove from Effingham to Dallas.  Yeah, that as a far piece.  I left at 10:00 am and arrived about 11:00 pm.

    I’m really glad to be home and am finally able to start summer.  I don’t have to work or do any more staff development until school starts.