Diabetes In Control – Implantable gastric stimulation (IGS)
You guys KNOW I’m in to technolgy. I think I want a few more guinea pigs before I go for it (but then I feel the same way about the continous monitors).
And does it have to be Minimed? (Microsoft of medical equipment).
Yeah, today people have been trying to make me get the “big head.”.
One of the most annoying thing about my parents is that they rarely praised me because they thought I might quite trying….
Anyway, I just have to tell these two stories ….
One of my coworkers interrupted another teacher and I trying to solve a problem … but oh well, here’s what the other teacher had to say:
“Do you remember x? I’m teaching her now (she home schools our students who can’t attend school). She says that you are an awesome teacher” (Note: I am quoting here.
Yes, I did remember her. The other teacher told me that she said that she had been passing my class and was actually getting Algebra until they transferred her to another teacher (they did that with almost all the kids that I got to pass Algebra last semester, long story, I’m not telling it again today). Ever since then she wasn’t getting it and wasn’t passing.
Well, it makes you both happy and sad. Happy that your work is being recognized, happy that you could turn a kid around, but very sad you couldn’t make it continue past you.
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But it gets better. I have been having a weird network problem in my lab. Couldn’t figure it out, so I had asked a guy that wrote some of the network software I use if he could shed any light. I’m only SO good at networking. He volunteered to troubleshoot the network and did today and pinpointed our problem.
While I had him on the phone I told him the story I haven’t told here, and when I finished, I heard dumbfounded on the line (yeah, you can hear it if you listen hard). His response? I’ve been in lots of computer classrooms over the yeras and you are one the 10 best computer science teachers I’ve ever seen.
So yeah, I’m getting the big head.
Hey, it’s my blog, I can post what I want.
My response to this study is “duh!”
CNN.com – Study: Treating mom can prevent kids’ depression – Mar 21, 2006
Researchers say they’ve shown for the first time that treating a mother’s depression can help prevent depression and anxiety disorders in her child, a provocative finding with potentially big public health implications.
By the way, man that is scary but at 14 years, I’m a veteran teacher.
I have to blog about this, as it irritates the heck out of me, but part of the school schedule change has involved lunch times.
My schedule at the beginning of the year — first through third periods straight, then A Lunch, then off fifth period (about two hours after lunch), and then two classes periods at the end of the day, was just about perfect for controlling blood sugar.
The schedule I have now is more difficult. I have third period off, then C lunch, and then work through the rest of the day. The smart thing to do is to eat something small during my planning period. However, I’m not always smart.
Today is one of those day’s that it doesn’t work. This is a kink in the works called prime time. It pushes our lunch period back by 15 minutes. No big deal right? Well, at our normal lunch time, my blood sugar was at 80. Yeah, 80. So I ate some sugar. I hate eating sugar when I’m low. Bolused too because if I don’t I’m going to be too high during AP Computer Science. Trust me, you don’t want to have brain sludge with AP CS students. You and they will be crazy.
Right now I’m waiting for the sugar to kick in. My hands shake, and I’m a bit on the bitchy side. By the way, being on the bitchy side doesn’t work with teenagers.
Here’s the story behind grapefruit.
Experts Reveal the Secret Powers of Grapefruit Juice – New York Times
In 1989, a group of Canadian researchers studying a blood pressure drug were astonished to discover that drinking a glass of grapefruit juice dangerously increased the drug’s potency.
I haven’t touched grapefruit in years.
I’ve been fighting a knee injury since about the 1st week of January. Went through PT and the whole bit.
Well, made a major milestone for me — the first time since the injury, I’ve managed to do a 30 minute walking workout in one session!
I’ve been working up from 2.5 minute sessions to 10, and tonight just bit the bullet, went slow, but did the full 30 minutes in one session without a break.
They have driven me over the edge …. I’m going to try to double up on Protonix as long as I can — but I’ve surrendered and am letting Medco call the terms.
First, the Case Authorization I’ve been checking on all week was for the wrong medication. ARGH! They did however, authorize Protonix through June, but my doctor has to write a new prescription if we want twice a day. I can’t go through this anymore, so I just requested the regular one a day amount and will go to one a day. I need to be a bit more careful about what I eat in the evenings anyway.
I rethought this and decided to go for one more try — left a message on my doctor’s patient line telling them that they need to change the prescription so I will get two a day. Hopefully that will work, but if it doesn’t, at least I’ve got another 3 months of Prontonix coming.
Got up this morning, blood sugar was at 124 — I’d like it to be lower, corrected and later ate breakfast. Tested two hours after breakfast bolus and was at 154, tested two hours later, and was at 233.
Site feels fine, so I have no idea why it is higher, but I am experiencing symthoms of higher blood sugar, tired, blurred vision, etc.
ARGH!
Good news though — it is going back down.
Even better news — my blood sugar has been lower all day.
I think I’m just adjusting back to the work week basal levels and schedule. I hate that too high sluggish feeling though.
Got a message from my doctor’s office that they had received notification that my Protonix prescription had been approved.
I was needlessly panicing. I thought I had less than a week’s worth of Protonix, maybe two, but still had a bottle of 45 on the shelf.
One of the things that helps me when I don’t meet my goals, is to sit down and figure out why. I know why, but I feel the need to list things.
The primary reason why I haven’t met my weight goals, is that my life got completely disrupted in January. I went from 2 preps to 6 — and lately back to 5 preps. Also 4 of the preps are infinity harder to deal with than the other two.
The other reason is my knee injury. A couple of weeks before the schedule change I injured my knee to the point I couldn’t walk and needed physical therapy. That’s gone well, but took up 2 hours a day.
It’s just been in the past few weeks that I’ve been able to exercise again on a regular basis. It’s also been just in the past few weeks that my sleep schedule has gotten back to normal.
The good news is that I haven’t lost too much ground and things are getting back to normal.