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 Definately must read.  Very interesting philosophys.

For patients to avoid burn out, they have to believe they can influence their own destiny, and the same is true for doctors and diabetes educators. They have to believe in the merit, indeed the essentialness, of their work. For Alan Glaseroff, as both patient and clinician, we know that’s true.

Source: Close Concerns Weblog: Avoiding Burn Out: One Man’s Story

Congratulations! 

The day unimagined has arrived:  I am a pumper.  I am woman, I wear Pod.  I can’t believe I haven’t injected myself in 3 entire days! 

I was going to leave a comment but the captcha graphic isn’t loading.  Unfortunately a lot of your graphics are not loading and that my be a firewall issue on my end.

For all new pumpers — it could take several weeks before you see an improvement in A1C.  The biggest improvement you’ll see right away is how much easier it is to eat!  Just put in your carbs, and you’re about done. 

I still don’t get your objection to tubing, it honestly isn’t a big deal.  Good luck on the insurance thing.

Source: Diabetes Mine

Did finish another week of exercise — I think it is starting to be a habit, but there are some days I really want to skip.

Twitter is probably more trouble than it’s worth, but that’s okay.

We seem to be surviving the identity theft.

And the best news, is that I survived TAKS testing just fine yesterday.  The organizers did a super job of making sure we were taken care of, but I would like next time that they schedule breaks later in the day, just in case.

My reliever was absolutely fantasic, and in my room exactly when she was supposed to be.

Good news for Byetta users, you can handle them just like insulin and Symlin. 

Link to Close Concerns Weblog: Byetta pens no longer need refrigeration

Read about it on another blog — I’m playing with it.  It’s at http://twitter.com/

I’m not sure what it is good for, but then I don’t always get Social Networking.  I am probably too old.

It happened to us this week. 

First, I freely admit I am anal, as I told my students today, some people use a blowdryer, I use Chase.  And some other accounts.

Every day I take a shower, every day, after the shower, I sit down with the accounts and check them.  Every single one — it’s not that hard with Quicken, but I check every account that we have setup on line, including my cell phone account.  Anything, anyone could tamper with.

Yesterday, a check went through for approximately $127.00  I realized pretty quickly I hadn’t written a check for that amount, but waited for a day to verify it, since the image was not available.

Someone created at least three checks, with my husband’s name, his DL (which even I don’t have at my finger tips), my name, my DL, and our address.  Of course, I don’t put the DL’s printed on the check.  I also can’t write as legible as the forger.

It’s been fun.  I had to close our checking account and I had to provide a list of known transactions (and darn, I should have pulled that before I left the house, I had to come back and get it).

I also put a fraud alert on our credit accounts.

My husband is happy.  Everyone whose heard the story realizes that they wouldn’t have caught the problem as quickly as I did, or gotten it resolved as quickly.

It pays to be anal.

I’m really getting bummed about agility.  It has not been going well.  I really think it’s because my own physical health is not getting better.  I begged my endo for help, but he didn’t have any more answers my last trip in.  I’m not sure what to do, other than try to increase my walking.

I’ve been extremely stiff, and I know a lot of that is just the cold weather we’ve been having.  Tonight, we did most things well, but I was running very stiffly.  The sad part is, Marcie is trying hard, but she just can’t go any faster than I can go.  And I think by the time I’m getting to Maggie’s runs, I’m so tired, she can’t connect with me.

The good news, is that the youngest is on closed poles now, so I am making some progress in one world. 

The good news, is that the next trial is two weeks away.  Everyone pray for warmer weather.

And it was not fair that it was 60 degrees today, and 40 all weekend!

More good news, I played hooky today, slept in, and then went mall walking.  I didn’t get enough steps in — only 8485, but 1796 of them were aerobic.

A commenter asked if the pedometer can be used for walking in place.

I looked at the manual, and I don’t think so.  You are going to get some steps counted but maybe not all — it’s say the unit may not be able to count steps correctly in the following cases: and it mentions jogging and walking slowly.

Oddly enough I discovered this on my own, but I think it is more a symthom of diabetes than anything. 

The authors found that there was a reduction in sleep onset latency (SOL — the time it takes to fall asleep) by nine minutes in the group that had a high carbohydrate meal four hours before bed time.

Source: Sleep Disorders: Information and advice on narcolepsy and insomnia symptoms and treatments