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  • Post Agility

    My bolus rates aren’t working as well as they were last week. I’ve been consistently high after each meal. 163 after lunch.

    I think it is really interesting, and sort of in a way, documented in the book “Pumping Insulin”, that the more insulin you use the more you need, and vice versa. Since I went 3 days with using 50 units a day, it is going to take a few days for my body to adjust downward to the 30 units a day rate, especially since I have a workshop tomorrow, and I’ll probably using about 40 units that day.

  • The morning after

    I’m incredibly stiff today, but other than that, am fine.

    My TDD insulin usage was way up all weekend — just around 50 units a day. My weight is up a little, but not substantially.

    This week will continue to be interesting, as I have a teacher workshop tomorrow. That means I’ll have to increase my basal rate around 50%. I’ve got a basal rate in my pump for that now, which I plan to review after today, and switch to in the evening.

    My blood sugar this morning was 111, a bit higher than the previous mornings, but not bad. Not correctable.

    All in all, I’m glad I did everything I did. To recap the weekend — in fact, I don’t think I posted much about Sunday:

    On Friday, Marcie and I took two first places with Clean Runs. One in Excellent Standard Perferred A, One in Excellent JWW Preferred B. Times were substantially below regular course time.

    On Saturday, Marcie and I took a first place with a clean run and again, substantially under course time. Excellent Standard Preferred A, and finished her AXP title.

    She is now Bettner’s Byte of Magic, OA, OAJ, AXP, AJP, CGC

    On Sunday, last run, Maggie had a clean but very ugly Open run, getting a first place and her first Open leg.

    So in 10 runs, we placed 1st 4 times.

    The best part, though, is that I came home all three days feeling pretty good. Was able to do a workout on both Friday and Saturday, but was too stiff to move Sunday. The only thing I’d change, would be to wear more layers of clothing on Sunday. Man, it was cold.

  • The morning after

    I’m incredibly stiff today, but other than that, am fine.

    My TDD insulin usage was way up all weekend — just around 50 units a day. My weight is up a little, but not substantially.

    This week will continue to be interesting, as I have a teacher workshop tomorrow. That means I’ll have to increase my basal rate around 50%. I’ve got a basal rate in my pump for that now, which I plan to review after today, and switch to in the evening.

    My blood sugar this morning was 111, a bit higher than the previous mornings, but not bad. Not correctable.

    All in all, I’m glad I did everything I did. To recap the weekend — in fact, I don’t think I posted much about Sunday:

    On Friday, Marcie and I took two first places with Clean Runs. One in Excellent Standard Perferred A, One in Excellent JWW Preferred B. Times were substantially below regular course time.

    On Saturday, Marcie and I took a first place with a clean run and again, substantially under course time. Excellent Standard Preferred A, and finished her AXP title.

    She is now Bettner’s Byte of Magic, OA, OAJ, AXP, AJP, CGC

    On Sunday, last run, Maggie had a clean but very ugly Open run, getting a first place and her first Open leg.

    So in 10 runs, we placed 1st 4 times.

    The best part, though, is that I came home all three days feeling pretty good. Was able to do a workout on both Friday and Saturday, but was too stiff to move Sunday. The only thing I’d change, would be to wear more layers of clothing on Sunday. Man, it was cold.

  • Yikes–My TDD is up!

    But it only makes sense, but also explains why I’ve had to change my bolus rates a bit. My TDD (Total Daily Dosage) of insulin is up to 40 units a day.

    I’ve so far had 4 days of dog agility trials, today will be the end for a while.

    Speaking of which, my blood sugar was 104 this morning, which is extremely good for me. Especially after 2 days of trialing.

    I’ve also only have 5 more full days with my students, and then we go to exam schedule — I will probably need to switch to my weekend rate at the beginning of finals and stay that way until the students report back.

    One of the things I’ve recently done that I think will REALLY help, is to program reminders in my Treo to remind me to change the pump to different rates in advance. So I’ve just set up reminders for winter break — mostly to delete the ones telling me to set the pump to a normal rate.

    That’s what kept me from using a weekend rate the most, having to remember to set the pump.

  • Day 2 Part 2

    My blood has stayed smooth all day. We blew our fourth run but learned a lot about what we need to do to be successful in the ring.

    Maggie doesn’t weave well at home right now so I don’t expect to be successful.

  • Day 2

    Blood sugar was 110 this morning. Did 60 grams of carb with 20 units of Symlin and bolused for 30.

    I did not check before my run but was 157 after which is great. I handled well and we got our 3rd Q and 3rd first place in a row. I finished her title and she is now Bettner’s Byte of Magic, AXP AJP OA OAP CGC

    I am very happy with my day so far. I have 3 runs to go!

  • Today was a success

    I left the trial with a blood sugar of 105. It was 110 when I got home and ate, about an hour later.

    But better than that, we took 2 1st places and had two perfect runs. When I get the videos back, I’ll post a link to them (I’ll put them on the Photo album site).

    People were talking about how much weight I’ve lost, how much better I run, and how good Marcie ran. It was VERY VERY NICE!

  • Going MUCH Better

    Came out of the ring shaking after a fabulous run. Don’t know yet but I think I Qed.

    Blood sugar was 147 after.

  • Agility Basal Experiments II

    I have a 3 day trial this weekend starting in a few minutes. I turned on my Agility basal rate last night about 10:00 pm, had a high and treated it, and got up with a 101.

    Ate about 40 carbs for breakrfast and exercised without bolusing and then did a set change.

    First bad news, is that my set came off in the restroom at the show site so had to do a partial set change (set only)

    Ate 120 carbs at lunch did Symlin (20 units) and bolused for 60 carbs.

    An hour later, I’m at 157 o I am keeping a close watch on the blood sugar for the day.

  • I knew this all along

    Diabetes In Control – Daily Weighing Helps People Lose Weight, Prevents Gain

    Whenever I have successfully lost weight, I have been obsessive about weighing. I often weigh twice a day. I’m very realistic about it, and use it as a tool — if I am up a little, I think about what I did and how I could do differently. If I am down, I celebrate.

    In order to lose weight, I have to actively think about it all the time, or I end up gainning weight.

    Daily Weighing Helps People Lose Weight, Prevents Gain