Was on my feet more than I should have been, but the Physical Therapist fixed it for the time being.
I can’t get over how good a session makes me feel.
I am going to try to train my dogs tomorrow night. I’ll let everyone know how it goes.
Almost forgot — got lab results — some values are NOT good but will know more on Monday. A1C was 6.6. Not my best, but not one of my worst since the pump (worst is 7.0 on the pump, my first few months).
Yes, very long, 8 pages on treating Type 2 diabetes.
In the Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay – New York Times
They did not shut down because they had failed their patients. They closed because they had failed to make money. They were victims of the byzantine world of American health care, in which the real profit is made not by controlling chronic diseases like diabetes but by treating their many complications.
Yes, very long, 8 pages on treating Type 2 diabetes.
In the Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay – New York Times
They did not shut down because they had failed their patients. They closed because they had failed to make money. They were victims of the byzantine world of American health care, in which the real profit is made not by controlling chronic diseases like diabetes but by treating their many complications.
Whatever was wrong with me Sunday night and all day Monday is over now. Thankfully.
Knee isn’t bad. It’s much better than it was last week before the weird injury. I see the PT again tomorrow. I’ve done most of his exercises.
Bad news — the furnace stopped working and we have to replace a board we replaced a few years ago. ARGH! On Thursday, as I have a meeting after school on Wednesday AND PT.
And watch this space for interesting news. It’s going to be kinda of like that one year on the TV series Dallas, if it happens. And who knows when.
More good news. My blood sugar is doing better in the evenings, but still high during the day. Maybe it’s the 35 students in 1st period and the 30+ in second period who tagged my walls.
Whatever was wrong with me Sunday night and all day Monday is over now. Thankfully.
Knee isn’t bad. It’s much better than it was last week before the weird injury. I see the PT again tomorrow. I’ve done most of his exercises.
Bad news — the furnace stopped working and we have to replace a board we replaced a few years ago. ARGH! On Thursday, as I have a meeting after school on Wednesday AND PT.
And watch this space for interesting news. It’s going to be kinda of like that one year on the TV series Dallas, if it happens. And who knows when.
More good news. My blood sugar is doing better in the evenings, but still high during the day. Maybe it’s the 35 students in 1st period and the 30+ in second period who tagged my walls.
Sarah asked in the comments, if Depo is good for Type 1 diabetics…
My answer:
Every year, my CDE and my gynocologist and I go around and around on this one, and we usually go with the “isn’t broke don’t fix it”. Every patient has to make up their own mind with their doctor’s guidance.
My problems are painful periods along with never wanting to have children. The other problem, of course, is diabetes. Most people who menastrate see changes in blood sugar. I see a slight, temporary raising of blood sugar, but very slight with each shot.
My CDE thinks that the depo probably adds to insulin resistance and weight gain. My answer is, when I get under 175 pounds and I can’t lose any more weight, I’ll consider dropping it for that reason.
Also, I’m getting close to menopause (I just turned 46) and they claim I won’t have any sympthoms while on depo.
Sarah asked in the comments, if Depo is good for Type 1 diabetics…
My answer:
Every year, my CDE and my gynocologist and I go around and around on this one, and we usually go with the “isn’t broke don’t fix it”. Every patient has to make up their own mind with their doctor’s guidance.
My problems are painful periods along with never wanting to have children. The other problem, of course, is diabetes. Most people who menastrate see changes in blood sugar. I see a slight, temporary raising of blood sugar, but very slight with each shot.
My CDE thinks that the depo probably adds to insulin resistance and weight gain. My answer is, when I get under 175 pounds and I can’t lose any more weight, I’ll consider dropping it for that reason.
Also, I’m getting close to menopause (I just turned 46) and they claim I won’t have any sympthoms while on depo.
I haven’t posted about this yet, because
a) I’ve been too busy being sick and with knee pain
b)I haven’t formed an opinion.
Anyway, both diseases disgust me today. Today I’m going to be judgmental and angry with people who are taking their health and trashing it by not eating and exercising to their advantage.
I do have an opinion about this though.
A lot of people look at me and assume I got here because I don’t care about myself, and that I got here because I wanted to.
That’s not really true.
And there are plenty of skinny Type 2 diabetics out there.
I think it is wrong for people to stamitize diabetes. It’s a disease. People don’t choose to get it. They even often don’t choose NOT to get it — sounds weird, but people assume just diet and exercise will do it. It’s not that easy.
As I said, there are plenty of active, thin people with diabetes. I have a friend who is a principal at one of our schools that exercises every day, eats right, has never little excess body fat, but takes 3 different types of oral medications daily.
I also have friends that are very overweight, have been for years, and yet they don’t have diabetes at all.
Even if someone is over weight, it’s often something that the individual has no control over. For years, I exercised every day, dieted, and did everything I could think up. Only one problem. I was only sleeping a few hours a night and had sleep apnea (from a broken jaw, not from being overweight). I kept gaining weight, and once the sleep problems were solved, I started losing weight.
Educating people is a good thing. When a student observes me testing my blood and says — “oh, my grandmother (or other relative) tests her blood like that”. My response is: Make sure you get screened for diabetes every year, since you have a relative, it is more likely you’ll become diabetic someday.
Just make sure you are giving correct facts and you are not adding to the stigmas!
I made it through the day. I ran out of knee about the end of 6th period. And I’m exhausted from being up all night.
I’ve got PT at 6:40 — I might add to this post when I get home, and I might just go to bed.
I’m back from PT. Grueling — here’s weird for you. My blood sugar was 78 with no signs of low blood sugar about 1 1/2 hours after eating. Not a good idea to do PT in that state, so I picked up a small chocolate shake at Sonic and didn’t bolus for it.
I was at 103 after the PT session, so I grabbed a MC Filet of Fish, bolused for it, and hopefully will be okay.
Nice to eat a couple of treats guilt free since I haven’t eaten anything but dinner and half a bag of Animal Crackers all day.
I don’t know if it is food poisoning, the Symlin, or what…but I went to a party last night, had lots of protein, very little carbs and started feeling sick right after dinner (this is why I think it might be Symlin since I started feeling queasy after dinner.
I ended up with a very nasty bout of diarrah and I haven’t eaten anything all day so far, and don’t plan to. Since I was out sick on Friday, I didn’t want to be out again today. And sure enough the substitute completely screwed everything up.
He put white out on my pink sheets which means they will probably have to be redone. He didn’t write down any of my new student’s names, and he didn’t give any work to my Algebra I students. Instead he gave their work to my English for Math students, meaning I don’t have enough copies to get my Algebra I students this afternoon. Though hopefully I’ll collect the rest of the packets from the English for Math kids. However, about half of one class already lost their packets.
I didn’t get enough sleep last night, and I have been in the restroom every class period for at least 10 minutes but we’re getting through the day.
The knee is only a minor annoyance.