Sadly he won’t get what he wanted but maybe it will help others.
Diabetic wins suit against IRS
Gary Branham didn’t anticipate striking a blow for diabetics who face discrimination because of their disease. He didn’t even know such discrimination existed.
I arrived at a meeting early today and got my new teaching schedule for Monday. I’m teaching computer science again, and I’m leaving my ELI kids.
I’m now teaching Algebra I repeaters, Computer Science (Visual Basic) I, PreAP Computer Science (Java), AP Computer Science A (Java) and AP Computer Science AB (Java).
I haven’t written any code almost a year, haven’t thought about CS in about that long, and sure haven’t thought about getting the kids to pass. I have no idea if there is any money.
I also have no idea what I am doing with those students.
Life is fun.
I have a feeling my TDD is going up, as I think I’m going to need cards to get this to work.
I’m going to try to keep in my the following:
It’s not quite as temperature sensitive as they claim — I think that may be true of insulin too, as Medco treats both fairly cavalierly and they are sure careful with depo.
If you do much more than 4 symlin injections in a day, you may have gastrointenstinal distress. When I asked my doctor about it (who has had years of Symlin experience), he said, “yet’. I really think that is what caused nausa at Christmas and caused diarrah one weekend.
Symlin does work well for me for turning off the hungry, even some of my emotional hungrys. However, if I use it too late or too much, I am going to be sick to my stomach in one way or another.
It doesn’t work well on grazing food. It will work on the initial food, but additional food need more insulin.
It would be better if I didn’t have eating issues and could do better at controlling carbs. Unfortunately that isn’t true.
I swear this pump is noiser than the other one. Oh well.
I’ve downloaded the old pump, but need to do it one more time to get today’s information from it. I’ll probably ship it back then.
I’ve also uploaded my old settings to the new pump, AND the food database. That makes life infinitely easier.
Knee has been talking to me all day, and the surrounding muscles. Especially on the stairs. He cut the stairs from the program tonight. The ice and TENS unit thing really got to me tonight, but I’m better now that I’ve hit the hot tub.
Sure didn’t feel like much day today.
The new pump has arrived. It looks new, which is good. When Animas replaced my IR1000 it was worn, and it kinda gave me the creeps, so I was worried about that.
I’m keeping the old pump until I can download it, and I make sure the new pump is working.
The pump has left Louisville and on it’s way to Dallas.
I woke up with a stiff knee but as I move around it gets better. I’m sure that doing knee exercises would be more productive than blogging, but oh well… I can’t bring myself to exercise in the mornings. I should probably get over that.
Right now, I’m too sleepy, my hair is too wet and I just got dressed and don’t want lint and dog hair on me.
Ran again tonight — one regulation course, twice. I took it easy the first trip, and it wasn’t bad. Just one dog and one class. Making up for Thursday night when our classes are cancelled.
We did an exercise in the barn that really required a front cross — for the non-dog people, that means you get in front of the dog and cross. To do them right, you have to plant your leg and change direction at speed, so that means you put a lot of force on your knee, and I always end up doing them on my right knee.
Then we went out and ran the regulation course again. I took it at full speed, and it went very well. The first 14 obstacles were gorgeous, both me and the dog, but you could see when I started running out of both lung and knee, things started to get a bit ragged.
Marcie is a fabulous little dog, even if she hasn’t got a hunting title
I really think I’m going to be up for the next trial. It’s the weekend after next.
FYI: The pump is on it’s way to Lexington and is due at school before 3:00 pm. I got the tracking number via email from Animas which always rocks, have the tracking number subscribed to via bloglines. and checked the shipping schedule via UPS.
I love the internet.
They are going to overnight my pump and I’ve had them deliver it here at school. It will be interesting to see how that goes. We’ve had some very expensive items disappear from our office.
I’m going to give them instructions to call me as soon as it comes, and send someone with it.
So far the current pump is still working.
I need to remember to download the settings off of this pump and print everything out.
I woke up this morning, and none of the buttons on my pump were working. I’ve got them working now, but the adhesive holding the plastic button cover has come loose.
I’ll be calling at 7:00 am (8:00 am Animas time) for a new pump.
I woke up this morning, and none of the buttons on my pump were working. I’ve got them working now, but the adhesive holding the plastic button cover has come loose.
I’ll be calling at 7:00 am (8:00 am Animas time) for a new pump.