Man, do new machines stink. Okay, any time you do anything different to a PAP, it stinks. But I took a short nap, and I feel better already.
My first sympthom of a non-working PAP (notice I’m changing initials already), is allergy symthoms. Very congested but very dry at the same time. It’s awful. That’s already better.
Plus the diet coke I drank for lunch is doing away with the caffeine headache.
I think the cardio vascular complications may be catching up with me.
I have been having troubles running the dogs in agility.
Today I went to the cardiologist for my annual checkup. Nuclear stress test time. I should have realized something was up when shortly after they started xrays, the nurse practioner started following me around. I was actually relieved she was collecting my medical history during the test rather than waiting after.
Oh, and you need to know about this — in the middle of the test, my phone rang and it was my pulmonary specialist. They wanted to see me at 1:00 pm. The techs said I could get there then, of course, I didn’t tell them that the pulmonary specialist is at big Baylor. We were in far north Dallas.
Oh, that the doctor wasn’t taking BCBS but I could be out of network. Oh well….
At the end of the test, the tech said that the cardiologist wanted to see me. Gee, it was just last year when I bitched about paying $345 which was 20% of the total charge and not once seeing the cardiologist, wasn’t it.
Well, he said the test was border line and he wants to check for blockages. They are supposed to call and make an appointment. At this point, I hadn’t decided if I was telling husband or not.
I got to big Baylor at about 1:20, but there was a huge line waiting for the valet — and it was going to be the fastest and actually not any more expensive way to park the car. So I got up to the office at 1:30. The even funner part is that an old friend of mine and my husband (we each met him seperately before we got married or EVEN met). I blurted out the cardiologist news without thinking — then realized I then had to tell the husband right away.
Seems that the pulmonary specialist wants me to have an autoPAP, and wanted me to have a specific brand rather than getting the old machine repaired.
We worked out a deal with the DME, I have an autoPAP now, and they are going to process the paperwork on a new smaller one as soon as it comes out, sometime in the next 90 days.
So all in all, it was good and bad.
More on the cardiovascular thing as I know.
I have been absolutely sick since my CPAP went down. I think the old one is contributing to that — right now, I have the worst allergy symthoms I’ve ever had.
I called my DME this morning and they are supposed to call back and let me know what they were going to do, hopefully giving me a loaner while mine is fixed.
The good news is that I have an old machine that still works.
The bad news is that it gotten through another DME that I don’t do business with anymore. When I got it, they didn’t bother to tell me they were out of network. Of all my DME’s I’ve used, I like the current one the best. Locally owned, by the son of a retired coworker (teacher).
They have given me super service. Though I don’t look forward to dealing with it.
I’m trying to recover from the school year, especially the last few weeks. I got extremely depressed and upset over how much material I was able to cover with my students. I was one complete unit short with one group.
Their grades were not as bad as I expected. I’m trying not to beat myself up too badly since it really wasn’t my fault, I’ve only had them since January 23.
So I’ve spent the last two days in the bathroom, but finally got that problem stabilized, severe diarreah which is scary when you are diabetic because you don’t know how much food is getting processed and how much is just getting dumped, plus the dehydration possibilities.
I’m also working on my two summer projects. I met with my partner on the district final (one didn’t show and gave one of his song and dances), and we spent an hour or so planning our approach. I’m going in one day next week and get some work started so we can make more progress when we can met next.
I also went through summer school training and I’m working on getting my lessons in the computer. A lot of the material is already in electronic format, but there is one book that I’m having to scan in lessons.
I am not sure if we’ll have copies in our classroom when we get back — long story, so I’m also going to put together my first week’s lesson on hardcopy so I can make copies.
We have 22 teaching days.
I’m looking forward to all of that.
I’m back from Shawnee, Oklahoma. I don’t like making a big deal on the blog out of a trip before I go. We didn’t Q all weekend, and it was definately my fault.
First, Maggie is learning that she needs to keep track of the course. I started to take her off course yesterday, but she stayed on course, and then today, I called a down instead of a sit. In both cases, she saved the day. We still didn’t Q though.
I was still stressed out over the school year, but it is getting better, and I think the trip helped.
There are two things I haven’t been doing. One is that I haven’t been taking care of myself enough. Yes, I’ve been working out, but I am still having problems with food intake.
The other is training my dogs at home. I’ve just been taking the girls to class, and have even missed a few of those.
I have until June 7 to decide if I am going to the next trial.
Just got my lab results from my endo’s visit. Kidney functioning numbers are better. A1C is at 6.6 which isn’t bad, but not my personal best.
It is not going as well as I would like. I got here and Marcie was entered in the wrong jump height which has been fixed but I had not had that happen before.
My lung function is really low and I think that is a result of the affects of stress on my gastric reflux. All the acid ends up in my lungs.
I know that gaining weight is not helping either.
I’m in Shawnee Oklahoma for a dog agility trial. Arrived right at 3:00 pm.
The hotel is interesting. It just changed hands and is being remodeled. I don’t think they have remodeled mine yet, but it not in bad shape, so maybe they have.
Unfortunately, I have a smoking room upstairs, though they did haul up my cooler for me and got a microwave into the room. Actually the service has been excellent.
The desk clerk is very sweet, and I think she is the owner. I think they are having an A/C problem in the other rooms.
Anyway, I think I brought almost everything I need. I did forget to pack a box of syringes. Weird, I’ve been on Symlin for a year and I didn’t think about that. I should keep a box in the car.
I took my insulin and Symlin to the pharmacy across the street and got my same needles for about $6.00 which isn’t bad at all. Didn’t give me a minutes problem.
I also forgot to bring a third pair of black pants, but I think I can survive without them.
Trial site looks pretty good. My instructor does not like the fact that they aren’t running the rings concurrently, but I don’t care as long as they keep things moving. It’s a small trial, they limited it to 440 entries.
One of my friends dogs took a Group 3 with her Siberian. I’m really thrilled for her.
I’ve got everything set up so it shouldn’t be too bad. Cages are at ringside and I’ve got a set of cages in the hotel room.
I’m going to give the pool a try. They supposedly finished remodeling this week.