I found something that REALLY helped this year. I went to bed an hour earlier. Had to take sleeping pills to do it, but it helped.
It also helped that DST started the weekend before spring break. I thought I was going to have trouble today, but it went fine.
Daylight Savings Time
Source: Sleep Disorders: Information and advice on narcolepsy and insomnia symptoms and treatments
Yeah, I’m going to spring for a new pump. It doesn’t give THAT many new features, but what the heck. I do use it more than anything else. I think I’ll change colors though. Blue or Silver?
The description is out on their website. It looks like the basal/etc dosing is a bit more flexible.
Also more memory and records the carbs, etc. which will make logging a bit easier.
So I’m calling tomorrow and getting on the list.
Or maybe, just remembering to code your meter whenever you open a new vial of test strips. Seriously. Especially since the Bayer meters are at a higher copay than the meters I use.
Blood glucose values that the 116 study participants got from their miscoded meters showed an average error ranging from plus 29 percent to minus 37 percent. “The autocoded meters used in this study gave BG values that results in the lowest risk of insulin dose error,” was to me the most significant result of the study. I know that if I used insulin, I wouldn’t hesitate for a moment before switching to one of these new meters.
Source: Diabetes – Misdosing Insulin
Yeah, I have my ankles back BUT my blood sugar is out of control which is making controlling eating difficult.
Fun, fun.
I did get another week of exercise in. Not bad, I haven’t counted weeks in a long time, and should start counting months, but I’ve only missed 2 strength and 1 cardio workout and they were for dog agility classes.
Back at the beginning of the school year, I got a mammogram. They didn’t like something on the xray on my left bresat, and insisted on doing it over.
Then they wanted a 6 month follow up.
I did it today.
No big deal, come back in 6 months for your regular mammogram.
Don’t worry — I never did.
Got my forms in email a while ago. Filled them out and emailed them back. Got a letter of acknowledgement.
The next thing is for them to contact my doctors (primary care and endo), and send forms to them. I’ve contacted each of them, and hopefully that won’t take too long.
Got a call this morning to confirm i wanted to join. Shortly after got an email about the credit charge.
Now I am waiting for them to go the approval from the credit catd company and their paperwork.
I hate waiting.
This 10 seconds too short, when I run agility, and not getting physically better has been getting to me. I’ve decided to try something new. Saw it on Keri’s blog — Fitness4Diabetes.
They signed me up this evening. I’ll let everyone know how it goes.
It’s Lori’s original post that got me on this. And she makes a very good point.
I’m not sure what to think about finding out that I am, at nearly 42, still so naive and hopeful to think that a person with diabetes can receive good medical care without being beaten or tasered or blamed for poor diabetes self-management.
Source: Very Old, Very Healthy Diabetic
Frankly, every time I treat a potential low, someone makes me feel guilty that my diabetes self-management requires me to eat a bit of sugar.
The good news about the Portland incident, is that it is getting BOTH sides to think.
I don’t think that the police officers involved did anything wrong UNLESS it is already addressed in the policy and they acted against the policy. However, I do think that policy DOES need to be thought about a bit harder — I used to help with that sort of thing when I did K9 stuff, so I know that side.
On the other hand, I hope it is a wake up call for the patient. If you know you get combative when you go low, you owe it to everyone around you to make sure you don’t go low.
Oh, course, this is from the viewpoint of a Type 2 on an insulin pump. Someone who hates to go low and treats a 90 blood sugar reading as a low. However, I feel that I owe that not only to myself but everyone I’m going to encounter on the way.
I am not accusing anyone of bad diabetes management — I’m just saying that perhaps her own procedures need to be reviewed.
I weighed after I took a shower and after spending most of 2 hours in the bathroom and I weigh 9 lbs less than I did yesterday.
Not bad.
Clothing fits better too!