Summer is working!
I just was able to drop my carb ratios — I’ve been consistently getting blood sugars below 135 after meals, and some in the 120’s, so I’ve dropped my carb ratios.
That means a couple of things — it means that working out and chilling out has decreased my insulin resistance.
It also means, if it works, that I should be dropping my insulin usage, probably helping me to lose weight, as long as everything stays under control.
Got my new contacts, just in time, as I dropped and couldn’t find the trial lens. They are MUCH more comfortable than the old, and I can see to read without straining so hard — very important, as one of the classes I’m taking this summer is “Readings in ….” and I have been avoiding the reading.
As these were a new brand, and a new package, I looked them up on the web — if you are wearing Toric or Multifocal lenses these are much wetter, and are called ProClears by Coopervision.
I am almost out of Toric lenses too, so I called and the Contact Center is ordering me one lens and a box, so I can try the new Torics and decide if I like them before I buy a box.
I pay a little more for lenses than if I went through a 1-800 number but man do I get super service. They’ve even taken back half boxes before when I was wearing a “popular” size.
My blood sugar seems to be pretty smooth — chugging along between 110 and 150 most of the day.
I’ve got my TDD down to 52 average, not bad, when I exceeded 110 for a few days at one point.
I just went out to iShape and increased the intensity of my cardio workouts, hopefully I can start losing weight now. It is at least stable now, and I stopped gaining.
The break is going well, I’ve started lots of little projects and have even finished a few. Tomorrow I’m going to have an electrician look at two circuits, one hasn’t worked for quite some time and will be a surprise for my husband when it is working again.
If you are on insulin, you need to read this article. However, their registration is a real PITA.
MercuryNews.com | 05/31/2005 | Diabetic’s road tragedy raises thorny questions
The tragedy has shaken Nebel’s understanding of his disease. Like millions of diabetics nationwide, he checks his blood sugar levels and injects insulin several times a day. He thought it was enough, yet his body betrayed him.
Remember a few things when reading this — reporters rarely get diabetes right, but gives a lot to think about.
Candid Diabetes: Two out of Five
I’m not the only one not impressed … though the JDRF commercial didn’t get me — but then I’m not a little kid person and I’m still coming off the school year.
Diabetes In Control – Target Goals Not Being Met Even in Specialty Diabetes Center
Though I do think the clinic I go to does a great job.
They’ve just moved into bigger, new office, with more room. It’s VERY nice.
Diabetes In Control – AACE Announces New A1c Standard of 6.5% and Lower
This organization is urging lower A1C’s. Probably not a bad idea, though it’s tough to do on MDI (shots).
Survived the dentist and without needing extra insulin. He told me it wouldn’t hurt this time, and it didn’t, well, it irritated my jaw — I broke it in a bicycle accident years ago, and have had problems with dentists ever since. He did a crown prep, my number 2 tooth is literally crumbling from all the repairs.
I’m going to be glad to have that done and behind me. It’s been giving me trouble for the past 6 months.
The other good news, is that I’ve gotten the ginivitis under control, which is supposed to be more prevelant in diabetes. I’m sure the GERD is behind the tooth problems I’ve been having.
An a major brag — I got our doorbell working finally. It hasn’t since we moved in, and for a while we had a wireless electronic doorbell that I didn’t like much. I’m almost feeling ambitious enough to try to get a chime for the backyard — there is wiring for it. I figured out by using the internet — did a search on doorbell, and found http://doityourself.com/
Mike posted a comment to my post on too many hosts — and he is right — they DO try to cover too many topics. They really should go to an hour, and even then, go with ONE topic at a time.
I hope they were just getting out there.
One thing about their channel — there isn’t much going on it anyway. Have you looked at their schedule? Most is paid programming, and of course, I’m sure DLife is really a form of that too.
FYI: I do have a bit of knowledge of this type of thing — I once had a radio talk show — it was a local one hour call in show where we also covered something new — at the time, a lot of our slots were paid for by Microsoft, since Windows 98 was the next new thing.
It was paid for by a local computer store, though we solicited advertising as much as possible. Thus, the featured products. So DLife may very well be organized the same way.
Resounding YES!
I really liked my IR1000. It was easy to program, easy to bolus, etc. BUT I didn’t always check my blood sugar on time and I wasn’t always sure how to correct.
The IR1250 — but the IR1200 would have served the purpose as well — has made all the difference in the world on my control. It reminds me to test my blood sugar and tells me how much insulin I need. I’ve got it set to remind at 2 hours after the last bolus, and if I am busy can ignore it, and it will faithfully remind me until I tell it to stop.
Unfortunately because of the recall, I don’t use the food list enough. I’m also not sure I like the calorie king database because it uses more characters in the food names than the old database did. I’d kinda of like to have both databases!
I also like the fact that it is smaller, very few people notice I have it on which is a plus, but not entirely necessary.