I may have screwed up. I just noticed while at the line that Marcie was entered in Excellent JWW A and not B.
Just as we were going in the ring.
It is probably my mistake.
It’s because I put a little too much faith in technology and didnLt check well enough.
We Q’d 3 times out of 4. NOT bad. And the nonQing run wasn’t bad either — Maggie forgot to bring her beagle brains, but found them up after the weaves.
I suspect I know what happened with Marcie’s entry. I’m not the only one at the trial who had their dog in the wrong class.
This trial opened before the trial that Marcie Qed at, and I just flat forgot to move her up, or check the confirmations carefully enough. The sad part, is that we need 10 Q’s for our next title. Oh well….
I moved up both Marcie and Maggie, so they will be running the right classes.
So tomorrow, I’m doing Excellent B JWW, Excellent A Standard, Open Standard and Novice JWW. Maggie has one JWW leg so far and Marcie has one Standard leg.
It sure is nice when Maggie is good. It’s funny, but every single time I’ve had her in the ring, she was just wild. I couldn’t get a stay out of her at all. That even happened during the JWW run today, but she was just as calm as could be going into the Standard ring today, and I even had a stay at the line! That’s new for us.
I physically feel better. Abcess isn’t bothering me, blood sugar is where it should be, though I was raveously hungry this evening. I’m going to bed as soon as I’ve digested some of the food.
I may have screwed up. I just noticed while at the line that Marcie was entered in Excellent JWW A and not B.
Just as we were going in the ring.
It is probably my mistake.
It’s because I put a little too much faith in technology and didnLt check well enough.
Very stressful week. Last night was parent conferences, which I have almost survived — I have to get through today.
The abcess has not bothered me since the doctor cleaned it up and drained it. I’m still doing antibotics.
The good news, is that I am actually tired and falling asleep naturally around 10:30 lately. I still stay up to late and fight that, but at least I am getting there.
I haven’t been thinking about losing weight this week and having been doing the treadmill thing. I am still having some hip pain, and I didn’t want to aggrevate the abcess. The good news, is that my weight is staying steady.
I’m going to get back on a workout schedule next week.
The beagles and I have an agility trial this weekend. I am hopeful that we will do better since it is colder. Neither dog was happy with the heat last weekend. Nor was I!
My blood sugar is still running a bit higher than I like but was stabilizing yesterday. I think getting on the treadmill will help that.
I really like Jon Katz’s articles, and this one is top on my list. Too many people ascribe human emotions, etc. to dogs. And it always gets in the way of finding a solution.
Owners assume their pet’s brain works like their own. That’s a big mistake.
Here’s the deal — the person wasn’t a freaking teacher.
Teacher Banned After Ripping Out Boy’s Insulin Pump – Yahoo! News
I don’t have any respect at all for substitute teachers after having taught in the classroom for 14. All I have ever gotten a sub to do, today include is babysit. That’s after making sure I had left transparencies with what I did with the earlier classes.
Not only that, but everything that wasn’t nailed down was stolen out of my classroom when I had to be out for two days, and the administration ended up sending one of them home and calling in a second substitute.
I never really expected a sub to be able to deal with my computer science students and was always careful to leave something they could do on their own, but the subs might as well as not have been in the classroom. One day, memory was stolen out of a computer, and fortunately another student reported the theft AND reported who did it which is much more than the sub did.
One time a sub played an “R” movie to my students instead of letting them work on the computers, which REALLY bugged me. Both the movie part AND the “R” rated part. The computers put off too much light and he couldn’t see the movie when they were on.
Anyway, almost every time I see a “Teacher does something stupid” headline, it was a stupid sub, the majority of which have never been certified, probably don’t have a college degree, and spent a weekend in training.
And sadly, often it was retired certified teachers that “baby sat”.
FYI: I did sub once. And I actually TAUGHT the students when I subbed.
As I just posted, I picked up an Aviva from my CDE today. I’ve used it a couple of times.
Frankly I like the case better than the Flash case, and switched my Flash over to it. I also like the Lancing device, and am using it. Even picked up a box of lancelets tonight and asked the CDE for a script. I have an email out to Medco to see if they are available.
Here’s what I don’t like about the Aviva: Right now, I cannot download the results. Thus it isn’t happening. I know for a fact that I am not going to record blood sugar readings, I’m too hooked on downloading.
I wish it and the Palm Pilot would communicate but they have removed the Pocket Compass software from sale according to their 1-800 number. Let’s face it, right now, the Palm OS is in big question right now.
Roche’s own software doesn’t work with the meter right now. I will be right up front with everyone. I test 8-10 times a day, and I’m not buying any more blood glucose software. If you want me to use your meter, you better give me free software.
EzManager doesn’t work with it either, but I’m confident that that will be fixed shortly.
It is larger than the Flash and it doesn’t have a backlight. Those are both Flash features I love. The test strips are larger.
However, I do like the new lancing device. It is taking some getting used to but with my history of infections, I think reusing lancing devices is not a good idea.
Remember that old Irish curse? May your life be interesting.
When I came home from the agility trial, I discovered that my labia was very hot, enlarged, and enflamed. As minutes ticked on it got worse.
Made it to school, but it was getting larger, and hotter as the clock ticked. Walking hurt, standing hurt, everything hurt, and it just kept getting worse. I picked up the phone at 1:00 pm and called my ob/gyn’s office. Begged for the first appointment available, which was 2:30 pm today. Not bad. I suspect if I pushed the issue, I could have gotten a quicker appointment but I also didn’t know if we had anyone to cover me. Nor was I really able to be covered.
Got through the day — and good news — we graduated some of our ELI students to regular classes. Of course they were my best kiddos, and I’m sorry to see them go, but I’m glad they are earning high school credits now. My class sizes are down to around 25 a piece and I think there are a few more to go.
Requested a half day sub, starting in the afternoon today, and unfortunately no one got the assignment. Next time I’ll know I have to take a full day off. I was hoping our sub situation was a bit better this year.
Checked my email in the Treo on the way out and noticed that my CDE had left me a message that there was an Accu-chek Aviva with my name on it waiting for me in the office, and since it’s somewhat close to the ob/gen office, I swung by there first.
Got to the ob/gen and didn’t have to wait long. I don’t think I had gotten it across to anyone how bad the situation was, but yesterday evening the labia infection had burst. Basically when it burst that entire area was engorged with the infection and my doctor caught on it that fact as soon as he got a look at me. He cleaned up the area, drained some other problems and diagnosed it as an ordinary abcess (as opposed to some real nasty vaginal stuff).
Here’s the deal… I’ve been noticed that if I let my blood sugar jump, even just a little bit over a few days, I get an infection. Last year, it was in my teeth and who knows why it decided to pick another area, but it did. And let me tell you, it was pretty painful, both the process AND the treatment.
The good news, is that the swelling is down, and most of the pain is relieved. I’m also on oral antibotics. I am thinking now, that I might need to just have a dose on hand for the next trip. I don’t get that many.
Of course, it may be a chicken and an egg thing — and all a coincidence, but I can’t help to think that the elevated blood sugar I had on Wednesday, which persisted about 4 days, contributed to the problem. The weird part, is that my blood sugar was only 20-50 points higher those days then on any given day and that my blood sugar was much higher than that over a longer period time in the past.
It does emphasis the need to me to keep a tight control on the blood sugar.
Friday brought home another thing I need to be careful to avoid, When I get overly tired, I eat, which is the last thing I need to do in that situation.
The first thing I need to do, is just make sure I don’t get that tired, which can be hard. However, maybe now that agility is on the earlier, winter schedule that might get better.
This should be a bit better week for the tired thing, especially if I can get some sleep tonight. No agility — we have parent conferences on Thursday, though we do have another trial next weekend.
We’re up in McKinney trialing this weekend. I’m still having odd foot pains and now hip pain, plus it is just hot, so it isn’t going well.
The good news is that both dogs are running the whole run with me and aren’t taking nose led excursions,
I am seeing an improvement in my running ability, but I still have quite a way to go before I feel “well”.