The Hang of Things…
So, some of you regular readers of the blog may have noticed a I”ve been posting a bit less frequently lately. That’s due to the fact that I’m in a new job as a sales rep which involves me being all over town (read: not in front of a computer all day). Without easy access to my computer and the Internet machine, I’m no longer able to get my thoughts out of my noggin and onto this blog as frequently as before. Suffice it to say: my daily routine has changed, and that means my diabetes management has had to as well.
As a sales rep, I spend the majority of my time in the car or in the offices I’m visiting. There’s a lot of cruising around town trying to find the right address, then popping into offices where the visit could be two minutes or an hour - it just depends. This means I have to get used to taking my CGM and pump controller wherever I go, in case I’m stuck there for a bit and need to adjust anything. Since I’m used to carrying those items in my purse and being at a desk where they weren’t too far away, I’m trying to get a new system down of always keeping them in the same place and putting them in the same pockets of whatever company-branded bag I’m using. But I definitely don’t always remember - case in point: those who use the OmniPod pump know that it has a very frequent and obnoxious beep beep when the pods are two hours away from expiring. You can only quell the alarm by hitting “ok” on the pump controller. Walking into an office today, I realized I had forgotten the controller in the car when beep beep let me know that it would be doing some talking for me on this office visit. Thank goodness I work in the diabetes industry, where it’s not completely insane to say things like “oh, that’s my tubeless pump pod beeping at me - time to change the infusion site!” Normal chatter out there on the ‘betes front lines.
The other thing that has changed drastically is my ability to control my lunch meal. I used to bring my lunch to the office almost every day, but now I’m at the mercy of the road or business lunches - both of which I used to consider a treat and a time to indulge but now find a bit overwhelming. In addition, it’s difficult to be at a lunch with customers and maintain a solid conversation while I check my bloodsugar, calibrate my CGM, take my Symlin, and take a bolus. Again - thank my lucky stars that I work in the ‘betes world, and my lunch time rituals often become springboards for conversations with my customers.
Although there’s a few new challenges, I am loving not being in an office anymore, and having the ability to discuss diabetes and making the lives of people with diabetes better every day has been an amazing and rewarding experience. And as with all major changes in life, the routine - diabetes and dia-blogging included-will surely fall in to place. Might be time to get some voice-activated typing software so I can blog in the car….
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