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I got a 0054-0001 alarm code yesterday. It says to call service. Since it stopped and didn’t reoccur after changing a slightly low battery, I’m waiting until regular business hours.

This is my second alarm code, I’ve also gotten a 0052-001 back on March 23. Therefore I am not too alarmed (bad pun).

I am finally catching up on sleep. Whenever I change anything about my sleep equipment it makes it hard for me to get to sleep.

Plus using the old machine really messed me up. So I’ve had trouble actually getting to sleep all week. Several nights I got less than 6 hours of sleep because I had to be up the next day.

Yesterday, I laid down to take an hour or so nap, and ended up waking up at 5:00 when my husband got home from work.

However, then I couldn’t get to sleep until after midnight, but woke up at 5:00 — which is when I’ve been waking up, but was able to go back to sleep for almost 4 hours more sleep.

So I am at 37.2 hours on the machine and have had it for 5 days, so I am just past 7 hours a night average. I’d like to get to 8 hours.

I’m going to take a sleeping pill tomorrow night and try to get to sleep for 8 hours. It is always hard to sleep the night before new students and I’ll be getting my summer school students tomorrow.

Just heard from the nurse at the cardiologist.

I got back an equivocal study. The nurse said that was common in women and that 8 out of 10 times, it comes back normal. Equivocal means that the doctor could not see certain parts of the heart because a muscle was blocking the view.

The doctor even said that my uncontrolled gastric reflux could be causing the problem.

I will be getting a test, basically a CT scan with iodine that replaces the old catherization. It takes about 30 minutes. I probably won’t hear from the lab that needs to do the test for at least anyother week.

She recommends that I keep my activity level about the same, but not make any major changes or add to my program until we get the test done. She also agree, because of the local weather conditions that I do cut some of my agility practice runs in half.

In other words, don’t panic. I hate waiting.

Commenter just mentioned the Minimed Continuous Glucose monitor. I emailed this reply:

Yeah, but you have to do business with Minimed. They have screwed over way to many diabetics to suit me, and I almost got suckered into their pump during the waterproof debacle.

And to add — I can’t believe their sales reps, either.