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Insurance and Bowling Battles!

Chris S — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:30:26 +0000

First, thank you for those that left me messages in regards to my insurance issues. I guess I am in for a long fight to try to survive. I guess all I really need is to have them cover doctors visits because luckily I have access to supplies, theres a reason this company’s logo is on my blog, they are keeping me alive! I have some other things that I need to take care of that are more immediate then the insurance, so I will keep you all updated when I get back that battle.

On a better note, we kicked butt last night in the bowling league. We took all 7 points. We were bowling against the team that I hated the most so I was so glad that we took all 7. We were in dead last 2 weeks ago, and we said we were going to make the greatest come back on bowling league history, and we have moved up 13 spots in 2 weeks to 11th place.

My parents will be coming down here for my graduation in about 2 1/2 weeks. So, I will have the whole week off of work and be able to spend some good time with mom, dad, brother, and sister-in-law. I still haven’t really said that too much, even though they have been married since November. I don’t really get a chance to talk to either one of them since I live in Florida now and they are still in PA. I talked to one of my best friends from high school the other day, and I said I will keep in touch more often because I really do miss talking to all the guys and the rest of my family. I need to dedicate one day to call all of them.

Well, I need to get back to work for a little.

Bye Bye Insurance and Hello Student Loans

Chris S — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:48:33 +0000

Bye Bye Insurance. Effective June 1, 2008 I will no longer be covered for my pump supplies, just my insulin. I will still get my insulin though, I don’t understand insurance. My medication is covered, but the supplies to the machine I need for the medication I don’t get covered. What would I do without my back up company I have been using for my diabetic supplies that I have had to order on the side because my insurance tells me how often I need to test a day. I started out volunteering and helping them out with local events and fundraisers and now do more stuff with them.

For the past several months I have been saying to myself, I am so lucky to have insurance because I don’t know what I would do if I was in the situation that the people calling in, were in…. ordering their supplies with their own money. I really don’t know what I am going to do. Graduating college isn’t as hyped up as it seems. You don’t get your degree in the mail for like 2 months, you get hit with $100,000 student loans, your parents’ insurance coverage plans drop you, and you have to work full time to try and cover those bills. Lucky to have graduated huh?

Any suggestions, help, comments, been through it already?

More Stress : Finals Cancelled because of shooting on my FAU Campus

Chris S — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:09:40 +0000

So with only two finals to go, a little interuption has taken place. I’m sure a lot of you have already heard on the news about the shooting that occurred last night at my college, Florida Atlantic University in south Florida. Campus is still on lock down and that means no classes, which means no finals. What a way to add to the stress I am under already. Luckily, nobody was injured and good thing I decided not to try and pull an all nighter at the library last night because it was locked down until 5 a.m. I feel bad for the students who are scheduled to graduate on this Friday, because they may have finals today and tomorrow and who knows when those will be rescheduled for.

I know this isn’t too much of a “diabetic blog”, but I just wanted to talk about the new emergency alert system that our school, FAU, has put into place. After the Va Tech shootings they were designing a new alert system, and I would say it was successful. Within 2 minutes police were on the scene, a campus wide siren was sounding, along with a PA announcement throughout the whole campus alerting students to stay indoors. E-mails and posts on the website were sent right away. Good thing for Facebook also, because it was all over there within minutes. I may have harsh feelings against FAU right now for cancelling the summer class I needed because of budget cuts, but if this is where the money went, then it was money well spent in my eyes.

Stress, Stress, Stress, Study, School, and A1C

Chris S — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:23:05 +0000

A1C test tomorrow morning, 11 a.m. My guess is a little higher then last time, right around…. 7.8 I am going to say. Mainly because of all the high mornings that I have had. I am starting today, to see how long I can go without getting a reading of over 200, and then if I do go over, I want to minimize them and see if I can get less then 3 for the whole week. I don’t see it happening though, because I’m lucky to get less then 2 a day.

I’m starting to realize that Olive Garden messes with my blood sugars a lot like pizza does almost. Maybe it’s because I eat about 4 large bowls of salad just by myself. Sometimes I order pasta, but sometimes it is just soup, but this past time I went, it was pasta also. It doesn’t spike until about an hour or so later.

I have a new stressful part of my life, I need only one class to graduate, and I signed up for it to be online, well they cancelled that one. Next, I signed up for another one and then I receive an e-mail today that the class is two students short of the minimum summer requirement, so now I have to stress and worry if that class is going to get cancelled also. What a stressful event.

Filled out Graduation Paperwork

Chris S — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:05:51 +0000

So yesterday I met with my advisor and filled out the paperwork for graduation. I only have one more class left in the summer that I must take in order to graduate. Which my advisor said I would probably need an A to make my chances easier to get into grad school. Depending on my GMAT scores, if I dont’ get an A I can still get in.

I can’t imagine what my sugar levels are going to be like when I am studying for the GMAT. Also, the day of the GMAT. They will probably go really low, because they always do when I get nervous. I doubt other students would like me to pull out a meter and test myself in the middle of one of the most important tests that they have ever taken in their life.

I will be going back up to Orlando for another 1 day trip to see my nieces who are going to DisneyWorld for the very first time. I am very, very excited. Next week is the big A1C test though, so starting to get a little nervous for that.