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Life has been so freaking stressful.

A1C was 7.6 , up from 7.3 but still less than what I had pre-sensor.

I will take that.

Had a decent night sleep. Maybe the wine, maybe because I wasn’t feeling gastric reflux, but probably because the power was back on, and I have everything done I can do between now and the end of the school year. Will be tweaking the class website and getting ready for my TCEA presentation in February.

Another problem with the power outage was all the little worries – is this hurting the furnace, should I turn off the sprinklers even though they have a ice guard, I did. And will the sprinkler pipes freeze. Will the house pipe freeze.

All the little stuff.

And Larry Mowry our local weather man let me know why I hated my first apartment so – we had the longest freeze in record my first December here. I thought it was the apartment, no clue it was the weather. And this place is cold too, especially downstairs, but it is so nice in the summer.

She has learned an excellent Service Dog Behavior – she will not go up to someone until I say “Say Hello”. It’s not something I’ve explicitly taught her but something that has come from our public education. While I don’t think people petting her in public will bother her—she choose the service dog role, and if she decided she didn’t want to do it one day, I would accept it.

I had the proof this evening at the Nordstrom holiday party – and she’ll snarf up any food she finds on the floor but people usually excuse that. I’m working on trash can behavior, but she just can’t resist one—especially filled with popcorn, which all the ones at Nordstrom was.

I do like the fact that I can choose that. I don’t think that having children hang on is a good idea. She’s only 15 pounds and while beagles are quite sturdy, life is hard enough on a working dog. Also, it’s against our district rules for her to interact with students and I also think if she did interact with our students, it would wear her out.

She does also serve as a therapy dog to the adults on campus who need one. Especially on staff development days.

I went about 20 years with untreated sleep apnea and probably all my life with restless leg syndrome.

As a result it is very difficult for me to REM sleep, the side effect is weight gain, mood swings, and what looks like narcolepsy when it is really bad. Also probably arthritis. It certainly doesn’t make it better. I also don’t dream.

This also makes it hard for me to go to sleep and stay asleep.

CPAP helps. Sleep hygiene helps.

Stress makes it worse, this storm is horrible as I can’t relax at all.

The sleep issues have always affected mood and for a few years, doctors misdiagnosed me as having manic depression. First clue they were wrong, drugs made me worse.

Good news is that I recognize the symptoms in a teenager immediately and have gotten kids treated. Not the specific sleep disorder, but at least head them into a medical diagnosis instead of a futile psychiatric diagnosis.

Bad news, I still can’t sleep.

Those who read me regularly will know that Medco was bought out by Express Scripts and as of January 1, they won’t be paying for Novolog any more. What really bothers me, is that they get to change the rules on January 1^st, but I don’t.

I have talked to two Express Scripts customer reps who claim that “Humalog” is a “safe and effective” replacement and that there is no override and that Novolog was no longer covered. Duh, if you are allergic?

Finally talked with a supervisor this evening who said there was. Wrote my doctor an email to get that in process.

Oh, and the plan I have had for years – TRS Active Care 3 is going away in August.

Yeah, I am keeping my insurance.

Dulce had me up around 2:00 with a blood sugar of 65.  I suspect she tried to wake me up earlier and I couldn't wake up and the husband didn't hear her in his room.

Fortunately had really old nasty glucose tablets and swallowed down a slew.  Blasted things had only 5 crabs a piece in them, what good is that.

Woke up at 120, so all is good.  Have n idea why, CGMS shows a massive drop which I also slept through.

Dulce has issues in a particular room at UTD.  She has fussed every tie she has been here, but has finally settled down after sitting in my lab.

When I said something about it to a neighbor, his response: "I am sorry you have to use a service dog".

No one has every responded that way and it is the best and most appropriate response.

I got no satisfactory answers talking to or email with Express Scripts when discussing the formulary issue.

Our insurance is administered by TRS and I talked with them today. I was told that Express has changed who does the mail order pharmacy, thus the formulary change.

She also said that I still have the option of getting the 90 day prescription filled at the local pharmacy and that they will probably have to go through an override process.

Also said that I should go the DME route on the test strips or go to the local pharmacy on those.

I am trying to not think about it again until January.

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Level had a really good promotion so I bought a sample set of it.

Bars: really like the taste and good chew.  That's what I need.

Shakes: Don't satisfy my need to chew.  Taste good.  Stay with me.

Gels:  I like, they work.

I’ve had the Fitbit on all week so far—not sure why I keep forgetting it all last week.

I do want to start upping both my steps and my activity level.

On another front, my sister and mom are coming to Dallas for our birthday. I’ve gotten a special benefit from Nordstrom’s that I am sharing with my sister, and am seeing if I can add some paid services for my mom.