Archive for February, 2012
I shoot from the hip. Personally.
I called in that bum sensor I wrote about yesterday, and because DexCom rocks, they immediately offered to replace it at no cost to me. When you call in a faulty sensor, DexCom asks you a whole bunch of questions about it so they can gather as much info about the little bugger as possible [...]
Hhhm. Well that’s a new one.
Monday morning I hit the gym at 6am, feeling like a rockstar for getting the week started off right. My blood sugar after the workout was…less than rockstar though, all the way up at 170mg/dL. It was one of those pesky, liver/workout induced highs that kept climbing after the workout and the bolus for breakfast. [...]
My Insulation
One of the joys (note: that was sarcasm) of changing insurance plans in the new year is finding out just how much medication your new plan will allow. I ordered my three month supply of insulin, which brought so much other joy (note: again, more sarcasm) that I chronicled in this post, and I recovered [...]
Well that’s not encouraging.
I am failing at the No-Lows for Four Weeks Project. This one happened around 7pm on Wednesday. I hadn’t bolused in hours, and I didn’t feel any symptoms - it was truly one of those “absolutely out of freaking no where lows”. This has to be the most frustrating diabetes project I’ve ever embarked on. [...]
Real power.
You know those days at work when you feel like all hell has broken loose? The days where the phone hasn’t stopped ringing, you’ve got 1,000 unopened emails in your inbox, and everyone you know needs everything NOW? Yesterday was one of those days. So when 6pm rolled around and I needed to transform myself [...]
Mail Orders.
Friday afternoon, I stood in the Southwest terminal of the bustling San Diego airport, thirty minutes from boarding a flight to Phoenix for business (because who DOESN’T love working on the weekend? Anybody? No?) My cell phone was smashed into my right ear, my left hand covering my left ear to try and reduce the [...]
Exact scientist I am not…
I blogged last week about my goal of “no lows for four weeks” in order to help re-set my “hypo awareness levels.” I’m about one week into this experiment and so far…I’m failing pretty badly. Turns out when you’re used to aggressively stalking blood sugars, lows are harder to get rid of than you’d think. [...]
Do what YOU do.
Happy Friday party people! I hope that most of you are about to embark on a three-day weekend in celebration of Presidents Day. Me? I’m getting on a plane this afternoon so I can….work in Phoenix on Saturday. But I picked the right weekend to give up my Saturday, since I’ll still get two full [...]
Things I don’t like to think about…
…include this. I got a refill prescription for glucagon on Monday and filled it. Mostly because my current glucagon pen was expired by about eight months and yet…still sitting in the fridge. My CDE said he likes re-filling prescriptions for glucagon pens when he’s replacing an expired one - because that means his patient hasn’t had [...]
What the mean really means…
I felt as confident about knowing what my most recent A1c would be as I do about betting on horses at the track (read: not at all). So when I walked in to my appointment with my CDE on Monday morning, his guess was as good as mine. The nurse who roomed me set my [...]
