So, a whole new situation with the insurance.  As of September 1, I was told by the insurance company that my insurance was cancelled.  So all this month, I couldn’t re-order my insulin because I was waiting until I received my certificate of credible coverage in order to pick up another plan since I have a pre-existing condition.  So, I haven’t received this letter yet, so  I called them today and they tell me that it actually didn’t expire until today, September 30.  So, I could have re-ordered it, and now I can’t!

So, I have to wait another 3-5 days to receive this in the mail, then I can finally pick up some coverage again.  Anyway on another note, bad weekend for the Eagles, but what are you going to do?  It was very nerve racking, that is for sure!

I was also then very sick yesterday, where everytime that I stood up for more than 5 minutes, I became very lightheaded.  But I sucked it up and came to work today, you thought Monday’s are busy, try coming in on Tuesday after not working on Mondays!

Crazy!!!  Have a great day!

I am debating whether or not to go on the Medtronic CGMS or not.  I really would love to do it, but at this particular time, hopefully only another week or so, I am without insurance, so I can’t really afford it.  My A1C is decreasing, but I will not be satisfied until I consistently have it under 6.5.

I am also concerned that I can’t seem to get to my next weight loss goal.  I have lost 10 pounds which I knew would be very easy to lose, but now it is coming off a lot slower.  I’m still exercising and eating health-ier.  Healthier is the key word there.  I am still not in a full blown diet, but I have cut down on my carb intake which should help a little.  I have also cut out the Dunkin Donuts sausage, egg, and cheese on an english muffin that I was having pretty much 4-5 times a week.  (Saving money on that too!)

My roommate is a gym freak and workout-aholic, so it is good to have him there to push me and to get me into the gym even on the days I don’t feel like going.  For those of you who are pump users, do you take your pump off when you exercise or do you keep it on?

When I am running or on the bike, I take it off because it is always flopping around and extremely annoying.  However, once I am done with that, I will put it back on when I am lifting.  I also take it off when I play tennis too.  It is so hard to figure out, sometimes my sugar goes up when I am exercising and sometimes it goes down.  It has to be something to do with what I am eating before I start working out, I don’t know.

 By the way, I just tested…. 255….. the morning highs, can’t seem to cure them!

What a great week of sports for me!  First, Va Tech beat UNC 20-17 (2nd straight week by beating a team 20-17)  Then the Eagles beat the Steelers yesterday also.  That was a great game and also it was screwing with my blood sugars for sure.  It went down pretty low, around 50-60 and then I just ate some more food and everything was back to normal.  The Phillies also took a bigger lead on the Mets, so we should be a lock for the N.L. East penant.

Also, on Saturday was the Brad Paisley concert.  That was a long day, and it was very, very hot.  When it starts to get too hott, and I start to sweat  a lot, my infusion set usually falls off because it loses it’s stickiness.  And guess what happened on Saturday, it fell off!  I had to go about 3-4 hours without my infusion set, so when I got home after the concert, my blood sugar was 358.  It was fixed right away as soon as I was home however.  But I will definitely not forget my insulin pen when I go to another concert ever again.

I played tennis yeesterday for almost 2 hours.  When you play it correctly, it is way too tiring.  I was hurting all last night and then all day today.  I was playing with my roomate, who is pretty good also, so he whooped me the first set, but then the second one we split, then we stopped playing because we wanted to go fishing also.  When i went to go fishing, I made sure that I took my bag that has my sugar tabs, a gatorade, meter, and of course sunflower seeds.  When we got to the canal, my roomate looks at me and says, “give me a worm.”  After I told him that I didn’t have any he says, “well what do you have in the bag, I thought you had all the fishing stuff in there!”

So after explaining to him that I don’t carry fishing stuff in that bag, but my potential life saving supplies, we decided to just go back to the house and watch tv.  I watched the movie, “The Eye” last night and it was extremely scary.  I was so freaked out after watching it, I thought I was seeing grey shadows all night long.

This weekend I am going to the Brad Paisley concert featuring Jewel at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, FL.  These days scare me because the concert starts at like 7 I guess, but the tailgaiting starts at about noon-ish.  I’ll also be missing football all day long, but what are you going to do?  I will set a goal of testing 5 times while at the event, I need to start meeting these goals.

The diet and exercising is going along pretty well.  The diet is still a little slow, but I am continuing to work out.  I have been doing cardio only, but starting today, I am going to start lifting also.  I will also be starting a low carb diet today, no more pasta, thats for sure.  I am also going to try and cut down the amount of bread I am eating, but those $5 footlongs are way to good to pass up.

The Eagles game didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to, and it was very stressful on me also.  However, I did test my sugar 3 times during the game, well once before, once at halftime and once after the game was over.  I usually never do that, but it was a lot easier to do since it was on national tv, and I was able to watch the game at home.

Happy hump day everybody!

In honor of September 11 today I would like to dedicate my post to those that we lost on September 11.  It is a day that we all will remember forever.  To all those that lost their lives on that horrific day, and those brave men and women who risked their lives to save those innocent people…. Thank You.

God Bless America and Let Freedom Ring!

Well, finally the A1C results are in.  Not exactly where I wanted it to be.  7.1.  It’s not bad, but it’s not that great either.  All of my other results came out pretty good too.  My educator was happy about that.  This is going to be a very, very, very short post today.  I have a lot of errands I have to go run today, but I just wanted to let everybody know what the A1C was this quarter.

 Have a great day everybody.

This weekend marks the beginning of the Eagles football season.  Along with that comes blood sugars that range all over the place during the games.  They shoot up and down and left and right.  When it’s a close game, it is even worse.  A new season comes with a new chance to do things differently, so this year, i WILL bring my meter  to the bar with me to watch the game.  It should be an easy game, but who knows.

Anyway, I have been tracking Ike all day today, and it seems that the latest advisory and tracking pattern is more soemthing I was wanting to see, that it looks like it will be missing us down here in South Florida.  I still haven’t received my A1c results yet, and I got the bloodwork done last Thursday.  I called my doctor and she told me that she hasn’t received them yet, but Quest Diagnostics told me that they faxed them to her already, and that they will re-fax it over.  I was a little excited to see these results because I think that I did better.

The weight loss is coming along, slowly, but surely.  I am down about 4-5 pounds since 2 weeks ago when I started running again.  The only problem that I am having is still the snacking and munching.  I am eating smaller meals, but then I am starving, and I cant fight the hunger, so I am picking at little things.  Also, I haven’t done any serious running in almost 2 years, so I can barely even make it a mile on the treadmill, so I am not burning too many calories.  I don’t want to start lifting yet because I want to lose the weight first, then build back muscle.

Well, I must get going now, ya’ll have a wonderful day.

After the rough 3-day weekend (Virginia Tech lost), I had to get back into the swing of things today at work and get busy doing what I do.  However, I had to take a little time to make a phone call to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and talk about this conversion program someone told me about.  Basically, what it does is that anybody who is losing coverage, and it is not by their own fault, for example, I just graduated college, so I am being dropped.  I have 63 days to continue to get coverage, for a higher monthly rate.

The rep I was talking to was telling me that my rate would be based off of my medical history and records, so I said, “let me just make it easy on you, I’m Diabetic, so I know I automatically go into the highest price range.”  She said, “Yes that will put you into the 100% range”  However, the good news is that it is a lot more affordable then what I have previously thought it was.  The bad part is that I am legally blind without my glasses or contacts, and I no longer get vision covered under this plan, nor dental, nor most importantly, emergency room visits.  Hopefully I will never have to deal with an ER visit for a long time, so that wouldn’t matter.  There were two different options that they gave me… BCBS Choice and BCBS Option.

Well, I have some homework to do on these two options, so I better get some good reading materials.

Have a great back to work day.