It got busy. Maggie classes came back to back.
The good news is that an hour after lunch I was at 165 and I stayed in that range most of the day.
Maggie did Q in Novice JWW.
All in all I don’t think I ate any more than normal and the blood suar was better. I think I up my afternoon basal starting at 10:00
This is the fun part. I’m at 249 after the second run. I ran hard but we made a mistake in the middle. Very out of breath at the end.
I really need to eat but not sure I should.
After my second walk thru blood sugar is 108 so I ate some sugar. the world can laugh at me because I don’t have the carb counts in my Treo for most of what I brought. I can look them up in the internet but didn’t want to take the time to find them.
Next break I’ll do that.
I should say something about this run.
We had moments of brillance but Marcie just wasn’t with me at the beginning. She had her table freakiness, missed a weave pole, and just did something weird at the beginning.
I ran well, no chest pains after, but normal can’t breathe at the end. Even got a front cross in but gee I don’t know where.
I went into the ring with a 129 and came out with a 137. ThatLs a lot better than usual.
I grabbed a stick of cheese and took a walk.
Bad news: major thunderstorms are coming through and Maggie is deathly afraid. This site has not been good to her.
I was dumb enough to enter her and bring her to a New Year’s Trial a few years back and forgot Texans have to make a lot of noise at midnight especially in the rural areas.
So we may leave when Marcie is done.
Things are going well. My bloodsugar was 129 after breakfast. I’d done one good walk thru before testing my blood sugar.
I did 36 carbs for breakfast, bolused for 18 and did 20 units of Symlin.
I woke up about 1:30 with sympthoms of hypoglycemia. Not bad though. Tested and was at 108, so I ate a serving of sugar and bolused for the carbs and went back to sleep.
I figure the end result proves I did things right, because I woke up with a blood sugar of 108, which is a good morning blood sugar for me.
Here’s the difference between the two events — the earlier 108 was a crash, where I was on my way to a lower blood sugar, while this 108 is a stable one. It’s hard to explain if you haven’t been through it, but a stable blood sugar feels very different from a dropping blood sugar.
I’ve also read some studies where there is a definate lag time between brain blood sugar and fingerstick blood sugar.
Not only does this tell me that my bolus rate is set right for that time of day, but it also tells me that my nighttime basal rates are pretty on the money. I haven’t touched them.
I go to .80 at midnight
Then 1.05 at 4:00 am to counteract dawn phenomenon.
One of my biggest debates with myself, is when do I want the higher agility rate to kick in — remember that we’re always working 2 hours ahead — meaning if I want a higher basal rate at 8:00 am, I need to make the change at 6:00 am. So that’s what I’ve done. I go to 1.45 at 6:00 am
I was in the car, on the Treo when I started on the other Agility Experiments and got side tracked.
I’ve posted on this before I think, but one of the things I don’t do well enough with my pump is adjusting my basal rate. That’s one of the things I’m working on.
We’ve been able to come up with a pretty good basal rate that works well during the week, which is a good thing, since that is usually 5/7 of my life. However, I have spend spending weekends chasing mild highs.
So first, I set up a basal rate I’ve called weekend, and set it to my evening rate all day. I still was chasing mild highs, so I upped it by 10%. I think its better, but I haven’t had enough days to judge.
I’ve also set a rate for my agility trials. That one will take a bit more tweaking, but the good news, is that I have two days this week and 2 1/2 days next week to work on that one. That one is now 10% higher than the weekend rate I established.
That’s one reason I packed extra food. I’ve also restocked my emergency food supply, just in case. I talked to a diabetes sports specialist about this about a month ago, and he convinced me that on agility trial weekends I shouldn’t focus on losing weight, but I should focus on keeping my insulin levels low enough to compete better. I also shouldn’t be as tired, since the high blood sugar levels I’ve been experiencing on trial days, wear me out.
I also think that if I mentally feel better, the dogs will do better. Marcie is more affected by my physical well being that Maggie — and if I am not as tired, I will run faster.
Anyway, we’ll see how it goes.
I’ve picked up a variety of both low carb snacks and regular foods.
I’ve also picked up some items to keep food hot with as my Diet Gourmet lunch was a salmon taco and I can’t imagine eating it cold. My Sunday lunch has soup so I’ll want that hot too.
The main reason I’m posting under Gadgets though, is that I picked up a new gadget. I have a one-time use camcorder from CVS. I already had someone tape a run with Marcie, and I’m going to try to get different people to tape with either it, my Kodak digital camera or my Treo.
I really like having a short video clip of an agility run on my Treo, as it makes it ieasier to explain what agility is to my students. Especially the non-Eghlish speaking ones, though it’s probably just another way to convince them that their teacher is nuts.Actually that probably true of both populations.
But it will be interesting to see which one is easier to put on the Treo, and which one is better quality.
It will also be nice to get rid of the run I have — it’s about 40 pounds ago, and about 2 years ago, and Maggie runs much queiter now.
It went extremely well. My husband and I went to Steak and Ale like we planned. Service was great but the kitchen was slow.
He had the turkey feast and I had the prime rib feast. Only problem was that I had run out of syringes and didn’t realize. I also didn’t tke my emergency bag so didn’t have backup. If we had taken my car I would have.
My blood sugar was 114 this morning so I did good.
Oddly enough it seems I only need my emergency bad when I don’t have it. That’s not true as I can only think of two times I didn’t have it and needed it and lots of times when I did and had it.