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In fact, I'm about where I was a year ago.

This last year has been stressful.  I was doing pretty good with the job, until the end when they started laying people off.  Then husband had to have surgery and I saw a pretty constant weight gain through that, but it was all I could do.  Now that weight is off, and my body and mind is back in losing mood.

We have a new pool, and they got us a good fitness instructor, and I'm working on building up my swimming.  I am also trying to combine weight training and biking in the gym with the swimming.  However, lows swimming scare me.

I tried my new routine today but it didn't work out.

I went off pump when I woke up, did Johns Hopkins work and drank a Muscle Milk. 
Did weights at Planet Fitness, and even did a few minutes on the massage chair.

I only managed 6 laps at the pool and Dulce started to alert.  But they were a good six laps.

I also took my time at it, so I was off insulin for a while.

I got an email from my doctor's online service telling me I had email, so I checked and they had issued 90 day prescriptions for my medications.

Then I went to the OptumRX website and I was being charged over $900 for two 90-day prescriptions.  Really? Really?

This is worse than anything Express Scripts has done.  Seems that they were using my old UHC account, not my husband's UHC account where I am a dependent. 

Fortunately they are open for customer service issues at 11:00 pm and I am hoping I have it straightened out.  Instead of merging my web account, as I want to make sure they don't bill me again on the web account, I opened a second account.

Unfortunately the website says they are still processing that order.

I just found out that I have to take my Innokana and Vytorin coupons in each time I refill them.

Freaking annoying.

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Apparently they have known this for a while, but have been trying to keep it from happening.

UHC has their own mail order service, ships out every 90 days, so you know it won't be packaged up by day.  They won't cover PillPack because of the competition to their service I'm am sure.

Yes, I broke down and am using their service — and their first representative told me I could ONLY use Walgreens and Walmart, I supposed because they are less than a mile from my house.  OR their mail service.

This means work for all three doctors, sleep, endo and primary care.

ARGH!

On a lesser note, so far they have covered all of my husband's surgery BUT one doctor who saw him at Baylor and the last week of BIR.  They are claiming both are out of network and not covered.

Can't see why the last week of BIR would be out of network when they covered the rest AND he finished rehab weeks early.

I got up, went to my swim class (at 6:15), then came home, got dressed and did my morning errands.

I was done and I get a push notification that the pump has been delivered and headed for the attended mailbox I use for packages.

The weird part is that it was signed for by AB.  Really?  There are three people who sign for packages there, and none of them would have signed anything close to AB.  Sure enough it's not there.

So if front of Sue, who was working that day, I called UPS.  They give me grief that it is addressed to Dallas, not Farmers Branch — hello, we share a zip code.  There are no duplicate addresses etc.  I also tell them the urgency of the delivery.

They tell me there are looking into it and put me on hold. After several minutes I get disconnected.  Sue makes me call back and they tell me that they will get back within the hour.

Hour passes, and they say they are still looking for it and that will have to send the driver back to find it.

I go eat lunch next door to the mail store, still don't here anything so back to the house and get on the computer to chat.  They tell me they are still looking into it — we're on hour 3 now.  The chat disconnects.

Next I call Medtronic.  They see its delivered, and they call UPS.  About 10 minutes after I get off the phone with them, I get an email that the pump has been delivered from the mail store.  I head over to pick it up and tell Medtronic its here.  While I'm on the phone with Medtronic, UPS calls, and I put them on hold.

While talking to the Medtronic customer support, I open the box and check everything is as it should be — it is.  UPS is still on hold.

When I get off with Medtronic I switch over to UPS, in front of Sue, and they tell me its a new driver and he took it to the wrong place and had to get it back.  Sue asks for the phone and tells the supervisor, that no, the driver told her it was lost in the truck.

Anyway, new pump is now programmed and working.  Old pump is on its way back to be refurbished for the next person who jumps in a pool without thinking.

I had a horrible nasty low last night.  So bad, I couldn't wake up with Dulce tried to wake me — or it was the lack of sleep.  I finally work in a cold sweat at 68.

I still didn't really know what was going on but Dulce was frantic and I did check my blood sugar.

A orange juice, then muscle milk for the protein and a handful of big lifesavers, I was finally going up.

Then of course wake up at 212 later.  Managed to make it to the dog show and get video recording done.  Finally back to normal when I left the dog show.

Here's the mistake.  I took a basal shot and THEN hooked my pump up.  I should have waited for hours after or put the pump on 0% delivery until that shot was out of my system.  Oh well.

Yes, I know it is no longer "certified" and to watch my blood sugars super carefully.

So glad I made the choice to go with the regular insulin only and not go on long asking.  Now I can sleep again, I hope.

Thanks for any prayers and thoughts for me.  I also sure don't want to be with out it again.

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Off to go to sleep for a few hours but wanted to let everyone know that my blood sugar has been staying between 120 and 180 so it's just about perfect.

The part I really dislike about not having the pump is the math.  It's funny, because when I checked groceries, I couldn't help it but add the numbers up in my head.  But this is, if you don't do it right you could die, or at the very least feel miserable for hours.  So I second guess everyone. 

Plus I'm out of practice.

Okay, I have a confession to make, and I don't know if other diabetes alert dogs work this way or not.  It's not so much that Dulce has a physical alert — I have tried to teach one but she doesn't work that way.  It's more that, she gets very hyper when my blood sugar is high, and very calm when it's right.  She does get very scared when it gets low.  So using her is more like having a very accurate continuous blood sugar monitor that doesn't have to be calibrated or have numbers. 

A couple of people at Planet Fitness have noticed, and they have been able to predict when I am going to leave.  It's actually MUCH better than alerts, but it takes a very talented dog listenering for it to work.

Seriously.

I starting taking a new swimming class and without thinking jumped right in. And man do things scream when they are dead.

They are shipping a new one but in the meantime:

My doctor is not on call and Monday is three days away. Of course, he wouldn't put with a doctor that didn't know their stuff and she based the calculations on his.

She did suggest Lantis but thinking #WWSHD have decide to dose every four hours instead of dealing with a new insulin and the cost.

She felt since I am a T2 the danger of diabetic coma is low and was even more assured with that decision when I reminded her I have a diabetes alert dog.

If you don't hear from me, you will know it didn't work.

I am already using my tech tools. The instructions are in OneNote and I am using that sheet as a worksheet to remind myself what to do.
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As a result of focusing on the husband's health, my own has been deteriorating.  Most of it has been eating.

I took a few steps to make that better.  I have been using my emwave2 device and when I don't have it on it, and I'm quiet, I focus on that type of breathing.  That helps the eating problem and the stress problem a lot.

I took control of my schedule — though I might be changing it.  I tutored another WyzAnt Tutor on Friday and it was good.  I am meeting with a family tomorrow night about a long term tutoring assignment.  I have mixed emotions about it.

So the weight is going down.

Other good things — I got a receipt for the Texas Teacher Retirement System showing that I have my 24 hours.  Not sure what the next steps are — it may be done.  Just waiting for their computer to spit out forms.

Johns Hopkins is going well, I have about 15 students who are progressing nicely.  I seem to be adding students at an equal rate to losing them.  I know that enrollment will drop in the fall.

All in all its good.