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  • Agility Experiments

    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.

  • Thanksgiving

    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.

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    There are a lot of things to be thankful, even if you are diabetic.

    While the state of medical technology isn’t all we would want, it is infinitely better than when my dad was diabetic. They didn’t have blood glucose monitors and they hold him not to eat sugar. They also didn’t have medications, nor did they give him insulin.

    Actually they didn’t do much of anything for Type 2 diabetes back then.

    And not much better for Type 1s, but at least they attempted to treat it.

  • Surgeon

    I was right. He was into seling baratric surgery. He is probahly right in that doing the hiatal repair would make bariatric difficult.

    He also said lapband would not be an option. That’s probably because of the GERD.

    He needs to scope and do a gastric emptying test before surgery.

    My inclination right now is to forget the surgery and work harder ar management.

  • Surgeon

    I was right. He was into seling baratric surgery. He is probahly right in that doing the hiatal repair would make bariatric difficult.

    He also said lapband would not be an option. That’s probably because of the GERD.

    He needs to scope and do a gastric emptying test before surgery.

    My inclination right now is to forget the surgery and work harder ar management.

  • Surgeon

    I’m at the surgeon’s office and the first qualm is the fact the door said baratric surgeon.

    I honestly don’t think that I want to go there. I doubt that insurance would cover it anyway.

    Lots of paperwork, stuff I have on file with this group any way but oh well.

  • Surgeon

    I’m at the surgeon’s office and the first qualm is the fact the door said baratric surgeon.

    I honestly don’t think that I want to go there. I doubt that insurance would cover it anyway.

    Lots of paperwork, stuff I have on file with this group any way but oh well.

  • Treo Stuff

    The upgrade to the Treo has made a difference in the sound quality, not just the phone but PTunes too, I think. Very glad it was available and I upgraded last night.

    Ran by Fryes and they had a car power adapter for the Treo so I picked that up, and spoiled myself a bit. I also got a Siig device that I can plug the Treo in and play PTunes music through the FM radio. It works very well. I’m surprised I figured I would be returning it.

  • Treo Stuff

    The upgrade to the Treo has made a difference in the sound quality, not just the phone but PTunes too, I think. Very glad it was available and I upgraded last night.

    Ran by Fryes and they had a car power adapter for the Treo so I picked that up, and spoiled myself a bit. I also got a Siig device that I can plug the Treo in and play PTunes music through the FM radio. It works very well. I’m surprised I figured I would be returning it.

  • Adjusting Basal Rates

    My pump, the Animas IR1200 comes with 4 basal rates, but right now, only one is truly useful. Basal Rate 1. I’ve decided to try to come up with 3 more useful basal rates.

    They are going to be weekend, agility, and workshop.

    Basically weekend has the same basal rate all day that I use for my evening basal rate.

    agility has the same schedule, but the basal rate is 10% higher. I got this idea from another pumper. Basically during an agility trial, I spend the entire day too high, so I’m going to up my basal rate, test more frequently and then eat to prevent lows. That will hopefully prevent some of the fatique I’ve been dealing with.

    The last one is workshop, and hopefully I’ll think to switch to that basal rate the night before a workshop. It’s about 50% higher all day than my normal basal rate. I should set up my Treo to remind me to switch to that rate the night of December 5th since I have a workshop the next day. Hopefully I just made that adjustment.

    Again, the principle is to drop my blood sugar low I will then test frequently to prevent an hypoglycemic episode since I get very physically ill when my blood sugar is too high.

    Blogging this helped, as I’ve gone into my Treo and set events to alarm me and remind me to change my basal rates for the two upcoming trials and the workshop.