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I picked up a At Home HbA1c test kit today — note these aren’t cheap yet.

Reserve about 8 minutes of time. Nice little kit, works well, though it’s lancelet is a bit big and dull.

Anyway, an A1c of 6.2 isn’t bad!

I’m still under a lot of stress.

The good news, is that the roof is up, paid for, and we’re waiting for insurance reimbursement.

The floor is ordered, but on back order, and they are pulling up the old floor on Friday — school is out for fair day. We’ll put down the new floor when it comes.

For those new to the blog, as soon as I ordered and got the pump, the A/C went out, to the tune of $500 and floored the dining room running the parquet floor which stretches about 3/4 of the house.

We then discovered that the roof was damaged.

And THEN the husband broke his hip.

I’m still worried to death over him and his exploits. He is becoming more mobile which makes me worry more, but at least I don’t have to expend as much energy in his direction. Of course, that means I have no help in getting ready for the floor.

As a result of all this stress, I’m not sleeping well, but am slowly getting back to normal. Eating more as a result of being tired all the time, so using more insulin.

Here’s how the pump is making my life better.

This weekend I competed in dog agility. Dog agility is a sport for people who like animals with too much time on their hands and not a lot of money — if you have money you do steeplechase or something similar.

It’s an obstacle course for handlers and dogs. They both have to run and the handler tells the dog which direction to go. Each course is different.

This weekend, we ran 4 courses. Marcie and I took 1st place each time we ran. Part of the reason we took so many firsts, is that we were only competing with one other dog, but we did make a perfect score on one run, ran two runs clean but slow, and she only made one mistake on one run.

The key to dog agility is to be fast enough as a handler that you are in place to show the dog where to turn, where to jump, or what type of obstacle you take.

We train every Thursday night that we can — we try hard not to miss.

Being on the pump is letting me lose weight, letting me exercise, and letting me get faster so I can be where my dog needs me.

She’s ALSO a very good dog — which means I’m a pretty good trainer.

I still love my pump, so much better than injections. However, keeping things normal is quite a bit of work.

I forget to test once in a while, but I’ve got a couple of students trained to remind me (they volunteered for the job, actually).

I think maybe they just want to see their teacher poke herself with a pin

But I did some dog agility tonight, and I was MUCH faster. It was a bit while, because I was ending up ahead of my dog, even though she was running faster too, and couldn’t figure out where to go.

For those who don’t know dog agility, it’s a obstacle course for dogs and handlers. It’s what you do when you have too much time on your hands and not much money. If you have money, you get a horse and do steeplechase or something.

Anyway, it’s been a good six weeks. I have had lots of things go wrong but have had a good support system to fix them and to learn from.

Animas Corp remains super!

First, I will be the first to tell you that the Insulin Pump is NOT a no brainer.

Also a quick reminder — the pump does NOT measure blood sugar. One of my students thought it did, and he’s been around me for a year. I think many lay people think it does.

Nope, you still have to do the most distasteful part of managing Diabetes, sticking PINS in your body.

But the real reason for the post. From Thursday to Monday, my blood sugar was messed up again. We got it back, and it was a combination of bad sites, probably bad insulin, and just flat out stress.

Eating was out of control. I was constantly hungry, constantly thinking of food. HORRIBLE!

Now that the blood sugar has been normal for the past few days, eating is getting back to normal.

Thank goodness.