While her alerts are great, dealing with her and the public is just too stressful.
Tara writes about how stress Duchess has been for her and I honestly do not have the health issues that she has.
Still will always still work when we are together but that is the type of dog she is.
Really loving them now that we have all the prescriptions setup. they have my next pack arriving Wednesday and it starts Friday. Perfect. I run out of my last medication on Thursday. I don’t have to keep up with it now.
My current insurance plan switches to Caremark and I am looking forward to not dealing with it.
Today was my last visit with the Insomnia center. It has been good. Yes, I sometimes still have a few bad nights, but I know have tools to deal with them, prevent them, and keep them from adding up.
I wish I had known about the center sooner, but there you go. If you are having trouble going to sleep or staying asleep, it is worth it to look into. I don’t do well on sleeping pills, and I have a lot of sleep disrupters already, so going to a program that avoids the pill and helps me with the disrupters is all good.
I do urge others who have trouble sleeping to try it. It didn’t hurt <smile> They actually screen you to make sure it won’t make things worse in other areas, and it is billed and treated as a health issue. So I still kept going to my counselor to work on other problems.
By the way, as a teacher, seeing a counselor who works with children is a good idea – for me, it’s often a reality check – as she works with both groups. She also uses me as a source, as I have insight to the school system she doesn’t have, and will reserve extra time for me to help her and other patients. All good.
It’s also a good idea to have someone you trust when you are loosing weight and dealing with those issues.
I also don’t do any type of mental health drugs so having someone to talk to — especially when diabetes care gets overwhelming is good. She doesn’t always get it, but I can usually make her understand it.
When all else fails and our blood sugar is still too high after trying the pills for diabetes, many of us go on insulin, although usually with reluctance. But by that time most of the beta cells of our pancreas that store and release insulin into the bloodstream have also failed
I actually tried this and ended up staying on insulin.
At the time of diagnosis, my cousin was working with Type 2s at a VA clinic and having good results. Instead of going off, I found my control was better with less side effects. It wasn't until I wanted to lose weight and couldn't that we went to the pump.
Even better control with the pump.
I don’t do it often, but since I was at the Microsoft building today and feel very safe there – they keep us well supplied in carbs, security is really good and it just gives the impression that if I did go low there, people wouldn’t freak out.
I forgot to bolus a few times – something I do a lot, and trying to get better about – so I left the place a tad high.
It was all good though, and I glad she had the day off.
Defining a decade as a weight between say 140.0 – 149.9 especially since my Aria scale weighs that finally. I’m .8 pounds from entering a new decade.
I’ve whined before how my weight works – I’m usually in a 5 pound range depending on how efficiently my gastro-intestinal system is working.
My scale also weighs about 5 pounds higher than any doctor’s scale I’ve been on including the scale they used the day I had lap band surgery.
And I’m coming up on the anniversary of that.
I choose the lap band because I knew mentally and physically I couldn’t handle a drastic weight loss – when I got the surgery I was gaining 10 pounds a month over more than a six month period (no, I’m not kidding or exaggerating). In fact, in light of that fact, one of my counselors pointed out even if I’m not losing weight, I’m STIL not gaining that 10 pounds a month. I’m not sure that is really true, BUT
The deal is, the lap band is accomplishing what I wanted – allow me to lose weight at a rate my head and body is comfortable with.
I was at a meeting today in a Starbucks. Dulce was behaved beautifully, though I did have my foot on the leash all the time, and we got there early for her to have staked the place out.
About 1 1/2 hours into the meeting she got restless, tapped my ankle a couple of times, I checked, and yes, had started a massing drop. Treated her, treated my blood sugar, etc.
A few minutes later, our meeting was interrupted by the people next to us, they had just noticed her and wanted to know about her. I gave them a quick overview.
The person I met with noticed her at the beginning of the meeting, but didn’t notice the alert, just that I had stopped, tested and treated. I told her to go on, I do this process in my sleep literally.
She finally commented at the end of the meeting that the dog was really good, hadn’t gone to the bathroom while we in the meeting. I dropped everything off at the car, took Dulce to grass, but she didn’t go.
Perfect meeting behavior, what I expect and get 90% of the time.
Loving Pill Pack. I have asked them for advertising support of my new endeavor – http://www.drecathletes.com .
Here’s my second dose – shipping was delayed a bit, because I ran out of Invokana today and they had to get a new supply from the company that remains nameless. And yes, that company caused the problem.
I love how neat the packaging, and its supposed to be recyclable so my plan is to drop the used packages in the old box, and then drop the whole thing in our city recycling bin.
By the way, I love the way our city does recycling and there is a group around here who is trying to change it We just drop off any recycling in bins conveniently located around the city. Unfortunately sometimes people leave garbage, not recyclable materials.
Back to Pill Pack. Love them. $20 a month, and they package everything and deal with everything for me. I haven’t talked with the pharmacy management company since I hired them, and it’s worth the stress relief.
It’s tough some times being a Type 2 diabetic (if I am). Yes, I look like the typical Type 2 – I have been struggling with my weight for most of my adult years, even though I’m physically active. In fact, if you look at me, you don’t realize I put in at least an hour every day at the gym, mostly doing cardio.
I have a lot of attributes of Type 1 – we tried Type 2 drugs, but they didn’t work. I’m definitely insulin dependent. In fact, I use an insulin pump with a CGMS and a diabetes alert dog. I have hypoglycemia unawareness.
My father and his parents all were diagnosed with diabetes and died of cardio-vascular compliments. Not only is there a genetic component here – but we were all raised eating the same diet. Fortunately we started changing that diet in the 80’s but the damage was done.
My problems are aggravated by sleep apnea, caused by breaking my jaw when I was 19. I am subject to extreme sleep disruption due to it and restless leg syndrome.
So anything that can’t fit in a Pill Pack gets shipped one month at a time. This is fine. I had them send me insulin and they sent me 5 vials. Here’s the unboxing:
As you can see – they were packed in a small cooler with packs to keep them cold.
Shipped overnight, UPS