Blog

For us it was good…

Marcie made half a mistake (well, I’m calling it half of one), as she got her head past the wrong weave pole, but corrected her mistake when I told her — so we didn’t Q in standard. She was also very slow because it was muggy and starting to get warm — she’s a Vermont beagle…

I completely screwed up the beginning of Maggie’s run and she gave up in disgust. I had to promise a bribe but she was perfect after that. It was her first excellent run (the class excellent, not the style).

Then Marcie ran the exact same course, the way I wanted to run it, not the mucked up version and Qed, 5 seconds over time She is a Preferred dog for sure.

Then Maggie and I were not on the same wave length for Open Standard, I put her over a jump wrong, she wouldn’t sit on the table, and she mucked up the weaves, but since we were already NQ, I decided not to push the issue.

I’m trying to get a specialist trainer to come to the house and help me set up some exercises to fix the girls weaves. We went to a workshop last week with her, and I figure having her come over and get me started right will help.

But for another handler and dog it was very very sad. I had just arrived when I heard a dog screaming. I was told later that the handler had crossed into the dog’s path and stepped on the dog. We later found out it was a spiral compund fracture and will be repaired on Monday.

There is a good part. They immediately set up a donation jar, and at 1:00 pm it was looking very full. The giving club said they would match donations to pay for the dog’s surgery and one of the vendors had a raffle set up and also pledged half the of the proceeds. I contributed and bought raffle tickets.

I hope the dog comes out okay and feel very badly for the handler.

I figured out why my doctor didn’t get my fax … I was sending it to the wrong number. Oddly, the automated lines don’t tell you the fax number so I had to call the office.

Hopefully this was straighten things out, but if not, I’m on Spring Break next week and can do it in person.

My blood sugar has been extremely stable today, though I did have a quick dizzy spell in the afternoon. I ate 4 mini-Snickers and did insulin, just in case.

I’ve managed to get on the treadmill for 20-30 minutes a day, every day for the last 6 out of 7 days — I always take dog agility as an off day. I’m sure that’s helping tremedously.

The knee is still bothering me, but I figure the best way to handle that is to lose as much weight as I possibly can, thus I did my 20 minutes today in three stages, with a short knee workout session betewen each stage.

I’m getting a bit more than frustrated with my doctor. Those of you who read regularly willl recall that I made a special trip to my doctor’s office to ask him to call Medco and tell them to give me 2 Protonix a day. He didn’t, he just faxed the prescription, so they mailed me one a day, and sent me a letter rejecting his request. I faxed him that letter a week ago, and apparently he didn’t get it, so I sent him another one Friday night. I still haven’t heard back — I think I’ll try faxing him a new one after school tomorrow as they have evening hours if I haven’t heard from him.

I’m still occasionally waking up at night, especially when I have to feed insulin in the evening. I’m trying to avoid that.

I’m also a bit put out by my PT, as he was supposed to order me a knee brace and that hasn’t happened yet either. Supposedly he did order one and it will be in soon, I hope so, since I’m competing again next weekend.

I spent the day at an agility workshop — kind of fun because the presenter is one of my former students. She took a dog obedience class from me when she was a teenager.

Agility Workshops are much better than teacher workshops because you get up and do agility once in a while. You aren’t sitting around as much.

I spent a lot of the day feeding my insulin — I was around 90 at lunch and not feeling real well for example. Had some wheat thins and that helped.

I also got some sun burn.

My blood sugar has been extremely stable all week, and in fact was low on Friday and I ended up feeding quite a bit of insulin.

I dropped my bolus rates by one last night — all of them, just to avoid that. Today has gone very well so far, was 87 at breakfast, and at 146 two hours after. It’s nice to be reducing insulin for a change rather than increasing it.

I’m even managed to get on the treadmill my regular workout days, but I haven’t gotten back on the iShape schedule yet. I’m still nursing the knee, and am still doing my physical therapy exercises.

I moved my Algebra I students into the lab and I am in the process of automating the class. Not major automation as these kiddos aren’t the brightest crayons in the box. Some of them are midnight blue, but very few of them are yellow. They are all definately rescues — All have taken Algebra I at least once before.

We have a very cool copier which I absolutely adore. I drop the worksheets that the Math coach gives me into the copier, put my email address in the control panel and hit send. All my orginals run through the scanner and I get an email with a PDF attached. I also have Acrobat, so I can pull out the individual pages and put them in seperate files.

So my kids are getting a packet of paper approximately every day (instead of a textbook) and they can go to the website where I have the same packet organized. I’ve been putting notes and answers on the pages with Acrobat. They don’t like that I control their computer when I teach class, but they are stating to get over it. The same kids aren’t paying attention as before, but at least the kids that were hitting other kids who WERE paying attention are now in training to race cars or kill aliens (playing computer games), after I finish.

I keep hoping they will wake up and start taking school seriously. Let’s see, today, 3 of my darlings were in In School Suspension, and I only put one of them there.

—

But as to me. My blood sugars have been stable so far this week. The first time since the teaching change. My insulin usage is still high — yesterday it was 50, and right now, I’m just under 35. I probably need to eat something since my blood sugar was 120 at 8:00. I don’t have enough guts to do that yet especially since I’m not already not sleeping all night. I’ve managed to stay in bed all night, though I was pushing it last night.

I have started exercising regularly again, since I don’t have PT for my knee. It burned some blood sugar but not enough. The knee is loads better, and probably at 90%.

By the way, if you own a business train your employees not to be rude.

I saw this deal at Fry’s in Plano on Saturday, but waited and bought it in Irving tonight.

I got a Mac-Mini + 17″ LCD Monitor for $599. Well, I had to pay taxes on $907.00

They had an instant rebate for $199, and then mail in rebates for $50 and $30 on each item.

Here’s the cool part, I didn’t realize it was a 17″ monitor until I got it home. I expected a 14″, and wouldn’t have been a bit surprised if it had been a 13″ or smaller. Actually I was happy as long as it wasn’t as small as a Treo screen