The house has not gotten cool enough for me to sleep well tonight. I went to bed before 10:30, but kept waking up. Finally got up for a while at 4:30, then went back to bed.
Sure hope we do get the A/C in today, because I don’t see it getting done before Thursday otherwise.
14-day average of between 150-155 mg/dl, with 6 tests a day and no more than 7 blood sugars over 250 mg/dl. I’m lowering your max number because you rarely if ever hit 300, and I think having a lower target might help keep your standard deviation down.
I think I’ve lost 5 pounds in the 5 weeks I’ve been working with them. It’s hard for me to know for sure as my weight varies so much.
I had several people come out to the house, and I found someone who could replace the entire system for $4800. I’m going to have someone cover my class from 12:00 pm on tomorrow and meet them at the house. I want to make sure they do replace what I think I am paying for.
I don’t trust my husband making sure of that. We had problems before with workers when I made the arrangements and he let them in.
I can’t wait. Yesterday we didn’t get TOO hot, but I have trouble sleeping with the street noise.
I did 80 minutes today — about 20 minutes every time I ate something plus 20 minutes. It’s the most I’ve walked in a long time. I still do the Symlin, but that means no bolus insulin. Or at least very little. My blood sugar has stayed between 135 and 180 all day.
I’m looking forward to my TDD going down some more — it did last week after last week’s experiment. Not a lot, but a nice steady pace. I’m definately at 50 units average TDD right now, and often see a TDD in the low 40s.
I’m also doing lasix, though I don’t see the weight loss like I did before (though I’ll see tomorrow).
Right now, I’m waiting for a guy to come and give me a second quote on A/C. I got one this morning which we can do, but I’m hoping this one is more doable and hoping he can get it done on Monday.
Thankfully we’ve had slow rain and overcast all day so we can have the windows open though it is VERY noisy. And humid.
To begin with, I may be canceling my pump upgrade on Monday. Going to give myself time to digest everything.
Had some stuff going on at school today, that just left me drained a bit more than usual. Normal end of the year stuff, and getting ready for next year, plus something else that just added on to it. Unfortunately nothing I feel free to talk about — but basically it’s kind of hard when you get what you want and the people around you aren’t. Especially when I was there for a couple of years — and I’m not entirely sure I’m getting what I want this year. Remember the old saying about be careful for what you ask for.
That being said — came home and started on my Fitness4Diabetes workout, but before I actually got started, I noticed the house was a bit warm, looked at the thermostat, saw it was 80 but attributed that to outside being hot and muggy.
After I finished, I realized I was REALLY hot. Looked at the thermostat, and saw 81. Like blood sugar, it was supposed be going down, not up, so took a look at the circuit breaking thinking with the storms we have had, maybe the breaker was off. It wasn’t off, but it wasn’t on either.
So I lifted them and they stayed in the same state. Went back to the A/C, turned it on, flipped the breakers, and waited a while. Checked the outside unit and it wasn’t on.
Called the people I have a maintenance agreement with, they came out (eventually), and said that the compressor was grounded and said he needed to write a estimate for a new compressor.
Well, I immediately got sick to my stomach. This spring hasn’t been good with an unexpected tax bill of over $4000. Which shouldn’t have been unexpected, though we’d fixed it but then my husband discovered payroll did do what we asked them to do last year — hopefully it’s fixed now, on my paycheck end instead of his, because it’s easier — I just had to fill out a page on a website.
Well, the estimate was for over $5000 but he said we really needed to get one of their “comfort experts” out and get the whole system evaluated. We both agree but I want A/C now.
My plan right now is to get a second opinion and do some shopping around. Also get them to come out and do an estimate on Monday with Rich. My next early week is full — Marcie needs phenobartibal levels checked on Monday, and I have some field testing I have to do on Tuesday and Thursday.
So the house is not, but at least we have power, which not everyone in the region has.
The whole A/C thing though reminds me of diabetes. You go through life, making it each day one at a time, and everything is going okay. Then all of a sudden, something unexpected comes alone and throws you for a complete loop.
I battling a bit of depression — something I’ve been fighting ever since we got the tax bill.
Oh and some anxiety — which the seniors are giving me. We do the WEIRDEST thing. We still have three weeks of school, but next week is the last week for the seniors. It’s gets weird. First AP Tests starts on Monday. Second, we have a MANDATORY Senior meeting on Monday — yeah, it was on the schedule that way.
Yeah, it gets weirder.
So Tuesday is the last day for 5th, 6th, and 7th period — they meet 1st through 4th, but have finals 5th, 6th, and 7th — the good news, is my kids get their room, so they can still do the final.
After that it gets fuzzy, but basically their last day is Thursday. Then graduation is the weekend after. One reason we do this, is that if a kid hasn’t met graduation requirements, they can make up work. I’ve had seniors holed up in my room for 2 days in the past, making up assignments.
Seriously, isn’t this weird?
So I’ve got a senior who I can NG. Means she has more than 10 absenses. And she hasn’t done all of her work. It gets better — she doesn’t have a passing grade. It gets even better — she came to class yesterday and asked to go to the restroom. I told her she could, but she had to wait for the pass to come back. Two minutes later she gets up and walks out. AND SHE NEVER CAME BACK. She’s even gone today. And I went looking for her yesterday.
Who wants to bet she’s going to be holed up in my room at the end of the week — or next week.
As she wouldn’t be back in my room this year if she didn’t need a technology credit to graduation.
Yeah, and the Mavericks suck too.
Amy is writing about the Super Bolus. I freely admit, I’ve just never gotten the Super Bolus — but then I also have problems with extended boluses.
Not entirely new, but totally worth revisiting: pumping aficionado John Walsh’s “Super Bolus” method for smacking down high post-prandial glucose levels even before they hit.
Source: Diabetes Mine: Don’t Just Bolus, SUPER BOLUS
Here’s my whole problem with the concept — I’m a math teacher AND a computer sicence teacher, and I haven’t been able to wrap my head around the math. I also haven’t been able to wrap my head around programming my pump to do all that.
The good news, being a Type 2, I think I have a bit of cushion about the effects of those things. I also try really had not to get into those situations.
I will say that Amy’s explaination makes more sense to me but maybe it’s just seeing it one more time.
Yes, 6.9 isn’t bad — however, my best is 6.0 — yes, without lows. And I’m usually in the under 6.5 range.
So the 6.9 was a bit upsetting.
Especially when my meter hasn’t been reflecting that.
Not the greatest — 6.9
I was a bit disappointed — I had reduced my TDD on Saturday by 10 units, but on Sunday only by 5 units. However, that’s still quite a bit of a reduction considering that bolus insulin is about 20 units a day for me right now.
Actually that’s a lot of insulin.
I also think my blood sugar was trying to elevate from the Lasix yesterday. My blood sugar was a bit high this morning, though I’m hoping part of that was from being disconnected from the pump.
I also didn’t see as much weight loss from the Lasix this weekend. On the other hand, I have ankles again, which is always good.
This week I’m focusing on getting enough sleep — both Saturday and Sunday I slept in fairly late and then went to bed at 9:30 last night. I’m hoping that will get me through the week. This is my last week before the AP exam — my major stressor of the year.