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I was a bit worried about changing the battery on my pump. Okay, the first time doing everything along has been a bit scary.

The whole — pump has to have a battery thing bothers me. I’m a bit anal about batteries anyway, every since I went to a AP grading to Clemson state and arrived without Palm Pilot batteries and NO place to get them. Had to live without it for 2 days. Major withdrawal.

So anyway, this pump (Animas) does make a hideous sound when it is out of battery. I’ve heard it once, when I first got the pump. But the good news, is that the battery lasted 9 weeks and a day.

9 weeks of pumping 60-90 units of insulin a day, site changes, and downloading data. Not bad!

The batteries aren’t cheap, but I did find a source of inexpensive on Ebay — go to Ebay and do a search on insulin pump and it will come up. I’ve put a set of those in, and I’ll let you guys know how well they lasted.

Since I got my insulin pump (which Cigna STILL refuses to pay for), I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed.

Our A/C stopped working and dumped massive amounts of water on the floor, destroying it. It was lovely parquet. This happened over two weekends, one of which was Labor Day.

Then we discovered that our roof had major hail damage.

Then the husband broke his hip.

Well, today, the final paperwork on the roof has gotten done, and we’re getting a check for part of the work from the insurance company.

The floor is coming in today or tomorrow and will be laid on Monday.

Husband goes to the doctor on Monday and we’ll find out how that is doing.

And the really good news, the new insurance will cover the pump supplies — they claim they have no rules on what Type you are (Blue Cross/Blue Shield PPO). And they tell me I can put the pump payments on pre-Tax dollars. (Flexible Spending Account).

We’re getting somewhere. Now if my husband’s insurance will just get it together and pay their part of his hip.

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.