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My third blog anniversary is tomorrow — and so is Marcie’s 8th birthday.

I tend not to celebrate too much. Marcie’s only had one birthday party, and it really was just an excuse to get some friend over. None of my other dogs ever did have a birthday party…

I do want to take a few minutes to reflect on three years of blogging. My blog has never been about changing the world, it’s just been about changing me, hopefully for the better. It’s just about me and finding a way to deal with diabetes the best I can. If I help someone else, so be it. In fact, that’s a super bonus.

I do recommend some type of record keeping and reflecting. It doesn’t have to be a blog — but it is sure nice to be able to look back and see what you have accomplished, and even better yet, what has gotten you off track.

So happy anniversary to my blog, and to my blog readers. And better yet, Happy Birthday to Marcie.

Here’s the latest. Got a package in the mail for Protonix, but only got 90 tables, not the 180 I need for twice day
dosage. They requested the doctor to call for a coverage review (which I asked him to do a month ago, and he decided not to.

So I’ve spent the last 1 1/2 scanning the letter from Medco, finding out that the fax software didn’t work on this computer and looking for my fax software to install on the other machine which has a working modem. My dumb, but that’s okay. I’ve got the software back on a hard drive so it’s more easily acessible.

I did look harder at the letter I got from Medco about no longer being able to get Protonix and apparently we can do a coverage review on that too.

I’m trying to get back on track, and I’ve found that making lots of short entries about the things I’m trying to change helps.

So last night I got to bed at 10:30, which is much earlier than I have been getting to bed but later than I wanted. I did stay in bed all night even though I woke up twice.

Unfortunately I weighed this morning, and unfortunately my suspicious are true, I have started gaining weight again. I had other clues, my clothing is too tight, and my insulin usage is up.

Tonight I’ll probably be up late since it’s dog training, but I do plan to stay in bed all night.

I bit the bullet on Monday, and ordered 3 months worth of OneTouch Ultra test strips. Yeah, it’s bigger, yeah, it doesn’t have the cute little flashlight, BUT it does have graphs, which is helping me.

Sticking to one meter isn’t bad, I’ll have to start finding and shifting emergency meters.

Someone asked if was using the OneTouch software — I like EzManager much better and it not only downloads all of the UltraSmart data, but also the pump data — it’s an Animas product.

I had a better day, but the kiddos were really wound up after yesterday’s forced sitting still all day (also known as TAKS testing).

I think that not waking up helped, but I do need more hours. I’m going to try to go to bed around 9:30. Notice I said try.

The knee has been stiff all day, partly because the elevator isn’t working. I managed to get 15 minutes in on the treadmill not much but it’s the most I’ve been able to do all week.

Right now, before I can get anything else on track, I have to sleep all night. Which I managed last night, though I didn’t make it to bed until 11:30.

Knee is still incredibly stiff. I can’t decide what to do about physical therapy.

Students this time. I expected a disaster, first because the walk-through didn’t work, second because I found out shortly after I arrived, that the person who was supposed to relieve me had a car accident and wasn’t at school. I lucked out because a counselor brought me an extra student and I was smart enough to talk her into watching my student while I went to the restroom. I finally gave up on being relieved about 10:30, called the office and begged for someone to watch my room. The good news, is that I was assigned a new relief. He had other duties, so I didn’t get much time.

The other part that was nice was that I had only 12 students. A 13th was assigned, but he didn’t show and was withdrawn from school a few weeks ago since he was 18 and hadn’t shown up in weeks.

I eat with my students, which was actually pretty enjoyable. One of my students, a late arrival, took until about 2:30 to finish the test, most were done about a half hour before that. I did manage to get the students who finished early a couple of computers to play with which kept them busy. And I had plenty to do also.

We had another change in weather which is really giving me knee trouble. I did some of my physical therapy exercises, but sitting here in front of the computer isn’t helping much, but I just can’t bring myself to do more.

I may yet break down and get a stationary bicyle, but man, I love my treadmill, and don’t enjoy stationary bikes much. My biggest problem, is that I’ve never been able to find one that fits me.