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I go back to work today 🙁 Hasn’t seemed like much summer.

Since the next two days should be sit in one place and listen, I’ve upped my temp basal to +40% and also changing my bolus reminder to an hour after (instead of 2 hours after). A trick I use with my Animas, and just did — I will bolus with a 0.0 amount. That turns on the reminder.

I’m trying to decide if I want to chance the food they are providing — letter said “light breakfast”, or what I want to get on the way. What I get for breakfast determines whether I need a Symlin shot.

Decisions!

I did get on the treadmill this morning and do 25 minutes. That’s a goal for me right now, is to try to do at least 25 minutes every morning and then finish in the evening — though today’s schedule is just 25 minutes. Tomorrow on the other hand is 70!

I go back to work today 🙁 Hasn’t seemed like much summer.

Since the next two days should be sit in one place and listen, I’ve upped my temp basal to +40% and also changing my bolus reminder to an hour after (instead of 2 hours after). A trick I use with my Animas, and just did — I will bolus with a 0.0 amount. That turns on the reminder.

I’m trying to decide if I want to chance the food they are providing — letter said “light breakfast”, or what I want to get on the way. What I get for breakfast determines whether I need a Symlin shot.

Decisions!

I did get on the treadmill this morning and do 25 minutes. That’s a goal for me right now, is to try to do at least 25 minutes every morning and then finish in the evening — though today’s schedule is just 25 minutes. Tomorrow on the other hand is 70!

I just got my grades back from one of the classes I am taking this summer. I got a 31 out of 31 on my research paper. I worked on that sucker ALL summer, so I am extremely pleased with the grade.

That means I have a 97.5 in that class.

I won’t know about the other class until probably the end of the week, since we have one major and one minor assignment due tomorrow at noon.

I turned in my rubric for the discussion leader yesterday because the discussion was pretty much over. A bit disappointing, but oh, well.

I just bit the bullet and turned in my final exam. We’re allowed to resubmit our assignments up until the due date, so I’ve decided to play it safe and turn in what I have now.

I would like to put in a bit more material in two of the questions.
I’ve got 2 full pages for 2 questions and 1 1/2 pages for 2 questions. The questions are based on research and unfortunately there just isn’t as much research out there on those two questions. However, I don’t want to answer the other questions either

It’s nice to be done. However, I’ve already started worrying about next school year, it would have been nice to have a few days between.

I even got the short ones. The copay was only slightly higher than the formulary copay. So I’m very pleased.

One of my commenters is on the same insurance as I am, she wrote about getting the needles automatically. I’ve never gotten needles automatically, of course, my script for the Novolog reads for pump use.
When I was on MDI, my doctor’s office always wrote a script for needles and insluin at the same time, but I can’t remember if they were the same script or not.

My CDE wrote the Symlin script with both Symlin AND the shorter BD Needles on the same script and it was definately different copays.

FYI: I am REALLY looking forward to dealing with insurance next year. They are giving us a debit card for FSA purchases. I’ll just set up Medco to use that card, and use that at the doctor’s now and won’t have to deal with cash. I think I still may have to deal with receipt though, and I will have to get better about that.

I have responses to four final exam questions which meet the criteria for length and hopefully answer the questions correctly. It’s not due until Monday, but I’m turning it in early.

We’re still on the last week of discussion, but it seems to be winding down. Many of the participants are already back at work, not much is happening during the day.

So I’m getting more done.

I order and received a 3 month’s supply of Symlin. I was a little alarmed because the outside of the package was HOT. But as soon as I opened it, it was definately still cold.

Unfortunately Medco doesn’t realize it isn’t insulin — there was an insert on insulin shipping — and Symlin is more delicate than insulin in when it comes to shelf life.

Got my letter today about the start of school. Monday, 8:00 am. On a single folded sheet of paper. Inside said we still had budget and space challenges.

On a happier note: I sent in my extra credit answer. I probably don’t need it, but I’d hate to be a few points short and that would have saved it.

Final is coming along nicely. The news media is helping that, as about every day an article comes across my RSS feed that helps. These questions are all about research!