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Before I can comment intelligently on Alvin’s and Pam’s posts, I need to take some time to digest and make sure I’m reading what she is doing correctly.
I’m a huge avocate of tight control. I feel lously if my control isn’t good. I hate that.
Animas (PUMP ), a little-known maker of small glucose pumps — to let diabetics constantly monitor the sugar in their blood — could take a big share of the insulin-measurement market. So say two New York hedge-fund managers, who have bought shares. Animas pumped up from 12 in August to 19.31 in early February, before easing to 18.74.
And how can anyone dream of a closed loop system if we can’t draw blood and guarantee that we have an accurate reading?
Welcome To Diabetes In Control – Glucose Meter Problems Reported to FDA
CNN.com – Hospital sued over wrong surgeries – Feb 10, 2005
A doctor may have performed the wrong type of gastric bypass surgery on more than 50 patients at a Wilmington hospital, officials said.
If anyone doubts I have diabetes … and yes, sometimes I do, because I can keep my blood sugar so stable with the pump,
my blood sugar spiked to 355 on Saturday and to 250 on Sunday evening.
I’m not sure why, but the dogs not behaving well at all on Saturday at an agility probably had something to do with it. I need to download everything and review logs, but it’s possible I missed a bolus.
As it was, the blood sugar was down to 155 Sunday morning and down to 116 this morning. I like fasting blood sugar lower, but not bad considering where it came from.
Here’s the latest.
I want an IR1250 from Animas. Why, the carb counter for 500 foods you most often eat is built into the pump. Having to carry around a Palm pilot all the time to do the calculations has gotten to be a pain. So, I want one.
I’m now on Blue Cross Blue Shield, and I contacted my sales rep, who had me contact someone who is expert on pursuing denials and she told me since I was on a PPO, they had to ship the pump, then get approval and they ate the cost if it was denied. Okay, I can deal with that. Oh, man, can I deal with that, after the HMO thing, of waiting forever for the denial, getting the pump and waiting months for more denial.
So I sent in all the paperwork, got shifted to a different person than before, which might be a good thing, and get an email that he sent the pre-certification paperwork on Feb 04. I’m like what, I thought they said it didn’t grow through that.
So I emailed the person I emailed about this first, and said since it had been less than 2 years, it was “inside Animas” and had to be pre-certified, but just because it got pre-certified doesn’t mean they will pay for it.
Well, now I’m waiting on that — though I don’t think the 1250 is shipping yet. I’d love to have it before we go to Monte Carlo, but that all depends on insurance and when they are shipping.
The weirdest thing, is though they have issued press releases there is still nothing on the website about the 1250.
See, someone else with the SAME problem.
When I have my blood sugar under control, NO problem with food, but man, when it spikes and for me a spike is anything over 180, I start looking for more food.
One of the symptoms of diabetes is polyphagia – eating lots and lots of food.
I haven’t said much in the blog, but my husband and I are traveling to Monte Carlo in March. He’s going to play in the European Series of Poker.
We’ve been slowing gathering things we might need — I’ve got a battery for the CPAP so I can sleep on the airplane.
I’ve got a few none health related things on my list, but the biggest thing is making sure I have a legal carry on bag so I can have everything with me.
Clean Eating 11/25
Cardio Session 18/35
Strength Session 16/28
Weird, but I can’t seem to access the forum portion of iShape.