Well it’s Monday again and now it’s back to work after a week of vacation.  So sad  I will never fly back into town late on a Sunday ever again.  My flight was delayed about 40 minutes, and it took 30 minutes for my bag to come out so I didn’t get home last night until close to midnight and here I am up at 6:45 a.m. making coffee.  Didn’t have a chance to unpack, unwind, or un-anything.  Vacation was fun however.  It’s also time to get the weight back down, eating habits back under control, and the blood sugars to better levels.

I have to change my infusion set also, it’s starting to itch and irritate a little bit.  I put it in Saturday morning, so I guess it’s time to come off.  It was really hot in PA so the sweat started to pull it off anyway.  For the first time ever I wore my CGM for the whole sensor life.  Usually it falls off, or I end up taking it off before the sensor life is up.  Mostly it’s because I wear it golfing and it always falls off during golfing.

Well tomorrow’s post should be a little more fun because there will be pictures to add, but I haven’t been able to load any of them up since I just got home about seven hours ago and needed some sleep.

Well I hope you all have a wonderful day.

I don’t think that I have ever posted this late at night, especially on a Friday, but I attempted to post something earlier today and my connection was all messed up.  So, after the other day when I said my CGM was really pissing me it started to work a little better.  The sensor life ended tonight so I took it off.  My blood sugars have been running over 200 pretty much all day today, but it is somewhat expected with being home.  They have came down now a little over the past few hours because I haven’t eaten anything.  I won’t eat anything again until they go below 200.

The new website for my blog should be ready to go before the month is over.  I want it to look somewhat pretty at least before I send everybody to it.  While I am designing it and making changes, have there been things in this current blog that you have liked, or disliked for that matter?  I know a lot of people don’t like the idea of monetizing their blogs, however, whatever funds are collected are donated towards research and a cure for diabetes, so I don’t really understand the commotion.

Well I am going to get back working on the new site.  For any of you that have me listed on your blogroll, please remember to update the URL.

Have a great weekend everyone.

I am becoming extremely aggravated today!  I have been wearing my CGM all day and it has said lost sensor about 4-5 times and then I have to find lost sensor and it starts to work, and then it stops working again.  I was taking a little nap today and the alarm was just going off like crazy!  For real, if the sensor is lost, just beep every once in a while kind of like a low reservoir does, don’t beep for 10 minutes straight!  Anyway, the other reason that I am mad is that I was looking forward to going and seeing the Eagles training camp, but it’s too late because they are closing up shop today and there wasn’t really much going on today.  But they do play tomorrow night, so I will be able to get a little of the game action in the hometown.

My diet has pretty much gone out the window so far up here in PA.  I was supposed to go work out this morning, but my brother never called me, so I ended up not going.  Tonight’s dinner won’t be that bad, it’s a pretty simple dinner, steak, chicken, pasta salad, and maybe some other little odds and ends.  My mom made pickled eggs, which I am about to go dive into as soon as I finish this post.

As I’m typing, I just received an “Cal Error” message on my CGM.  So now when my doc asks why I wasn’t wearing it, I’m going to say, “Because it pissed me the eff off thats why!”  Ok, well my little nieces are here nagging me to go play with them so off I go.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

I am officially back home in PA.  I was at a conference since Sunday in New York and loved it.  It was a great conference and the pictures that I was able to take were incredible as well.  My blood sugars were great the whole entire time.  There was once when I had a level of over 300, but that is it.  Other then that, they were all below 160-ish.  I am getting ready to insert a new sensor because I want to wear it the whole time that I am home because I know I will be eating bad, really bad food.  Actually I already did, 5 minutes of being home and I made it over to the famous “Greasy Dicks” for a cheesesteak, extra hot extra pickle, and cheeseburger everything extra pickle.  I held back on the double chocolate thin milkshake though.

My blog is going to be “under construction” over the next few weeks.  There will be a new url for the blog and new look.  For those that are daily readers, the construction shouldn’t affect the content area of the blog, so no big deal.  I will post up some pictures tomorrow from the trip.

Hope you all have a great day.

Last day at the office before a 3 day conference and then home for a little vacation.  It feels great going to a conference knowing that I am not one of the vendors this time and that I can actually go to the lectures and learn and walk around and get to know more people in the field that I am in.  It also makes it a little more fun since I am going to be in New York and staying in the Hilton.  I will make sure to take lots of pictures from my hotel room.  With my luck, I will end up being on like the 2nd or 3rd floor.  I am trying to plan out what time the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) is open because everytime I go to New York I have to go there, it never gets old.  But it takes several hours to go through it and I don’t really have the time to do that because the conference schedule is very tight, a lot of lectures to attend.

That leaves me with a lot to do between tonight and tomorrow night.  I have a lot of laundry, cleaning, and packing to do.  I can only take 1 bag because I am flying Jet Blue and they charge after 1 bag, so I have to pack smartly.  I have to make sure that I have all of my diabetes needs packed.  If anyone has ever flown with a Medtronic CGM on, can you please leave me a little note and let me know if you went through smoothly?  I’m excited to get home and spend time with the family.  I know it will also be stressful because of the news that was just recently given to me, so I will be testing a lot more frequently.  I’m definitely not going to overeat like I usually do.  Only one night I will let loose and eat a lot, but I will control my eating habits.

Well I hope you all have a great day and weekend and I’ll be posting at home this time around.

Wow I cant believe how sore I am after one day of coaching.  These kids are a work out.  Last night was the first night of conditioning camp for the kids.  All ages were thre 6-14 and they were broken up into different groups depending on their age levels.  I was at the offensive / defensive lineman station last night so I was constantly bending down and pretty much doing squats for 2 hours.  My legs are killing me today!

I was able to test my blood sugar one time during the 2 hours during one of the water breaks.  I was around 115 but I drank a little Gatorade just in case I got low during a session.  I didn’t tell anybody about the diabetes yet but it wasn’t because I was afraid to or whatever, it just didn’t come up, but I probably will tonight.  I think last night was the first time in about 4 years that I actually wore a necklace identifying that I have diabetes.  Not even any of the little guys saw my pump or asked me about it which was a surprise to me because they always seem to find that wire hanging out.  Tonight I will be doing drills with the running backs or receivers.

Well I hope you all have an amazing day!

Another Monday.  This weekend went by a little fast, they all do now.  Friday night I went to the movies and saw “Orphan”  It was an ok movie, I pretty much knew what was going to happen at the end about 30 minutes into the movie which kind of made the rest of the movie suck.  I think I have seen way too many movies, maybe I should just try not to think during movies and just watch them.  Saturday was extremely boring, I didn’t really do much of anything.  I finished watching the Benjamin Button movie which is just weird.  All the while, my blood sugars were perfect!  Sunday was a different story however.

In the morning on Sunday I went golfing, which I am frustrated with because I putted like crap because I was being rushed and I could have possibly shot under 90 if I putted like I normally putt.  Anyway, after golfing I was really hungry and I hadn’t really chaeated on my diet so I said screw it and went to the bad bad bad Taco Bell.  And boy did I enjoy my taco bell!  My b lood sugars later on at night however did not.   I went up over 400 at one point and was very thirsty.  Being dehydrated from golfing didn’t help much either, but it was also because of the highs.

I finally got the numbers down to a good level.  121 before I went to bed and at 3:00 a.m. I woke up sweating and feeling all weird so I downed some Skittles.  Woke up with a 175, but it’s better than over 200 I am used to.

Football starts tonight, I am a little nervous, scared, and excited.  I have NEVER been a head coach before, so there are a lot more responsibilities now then just coaching kids normally.

Well I hope you all have an amazing day.

Well, my blood sugars are a little better today than they were yesterday.  I think it was my infusion site that had messed everything up.  When I took it our and switched to a different spot, the area was tough and hard, so that could explain why the insulin wasn’t working too well.  I only had it in that spot for about 2 days though and didn’t really use too much insulin.  Well, onto other things.

I am awaiting to hear back from my doctor on my Vitamin D lab work.  It wasn’t ready by the time I had my visit on Friday.  I will have to call back after lunch because they are all enjoying their lunches at this time, which I am about to also.  Coaching starts on Monday night, and I am not prepared at all.  I also just found out that my assistant coach is going to be on vacation next week, so I will be by myself, but he comes back the week that I am gone, so that is good.

I can’t believe that it is almost August already, crazy.   My girlfriend said, I can’t believe summer is almost over, because she starts her student teaching in August so she can graduate in December, and I said, “Babe, I haven’t had a summer vacation in about 4 years, so get over it!”  Those times were the best.  I didn’t mind the end of summer because that meant football practice was starting and I would start to see kids I haven’t seen since school ended in the spring.  Ahh those were days….not just younger, but also not diabetic.  I wonder how my life would have been different if I did have diabetes?  Would I still have contiued to play football?  Would I have gone to college to play quarterback?  Could I have been the first Jay Cutler (well not ability wise).

And oh yea, this means one more thing….. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES FOOTBALL!!!!

What a crappy day.  My blood sugar hit the 500+ mark last night in the middle of the night.  Didn’t know this until I woke up to go to the bathroom about 3 times within 2 hours, a little strange so I tested and it gave me the “HI” reading.  Awesome, exactly what I need on a Sunday night.  So, when I wake up at 7:15, I test and it is now 375, ok, better than before.  Side note, my roommate has been sick over the past few days.

Now I’m at work, and I can’t get my levels below 250 for the last 3 hours now.  My stomach hurts, I feel like crap, and I think I am getting what my roommate had.  What a great start to the week.  Bad case of the Mondays I guess.  This weekend wasn’t much better either.  I think half of the weight that I lost over the past week was all put back on this weekend.  A few different get togethers so my food consumption consisted of Firehouse Subs, Chili’s Olive Garden, and Wendy’s.  Need I say more?  I didn’t sleep much Saturday night, and my back was killing me Sunday morning.

Awesome, I hope you all have as wonderful of a day that I am.

Just got back from the Endo and the visit today was a new experience.  I decided to do one of these new multiple patient visits.  It is more like a support group type visit.  First, let me start off with this.  If you are type 1, don’t ever do these sort of visits.  You need more in depth analysis of your CGM or pump readings, etc.  It took 2 hours almost.  The endo goes over each persons labs and changes and lifestyle in front of the whole group in order for you to learn from other people experiences.  It wasn’t a bad thing, it just took too long and when she got to me, she said, I’ll have to see you 1 on 1 for more in depth, so it was a little time wasted, but it was good to be there and supportive for other people and giving feedback.

Overal, I was happy with my weight and unhappy with my A1C, but all my other numbers were perfect.  My weight there was 251, but that is with jeans, wallet, phone, 3 meters, keys, insulin pump, and a logbook.  That weight is very skewed.  This morning on my scale at home I weight 233, so I’m not too upset with that weight, because I had at least 10-12 pounds of extra stuff on that scale.

Now to the embarassing number, 7.4.  I knew it was going to be high because of my lousy eating habits, lack of exercise and stress over the last 90 days.  The last 2 weeks have been great, but that doesn’t make too much of a difference on the A1C.  I am positive that my next blood test is going to be better.  I also made a promise to wear the sensor everyday for the next 5 weeks until my next appointment.  Made some changes to my basal rates, still taking too much insulin, but that is starting to come down.  My basal rights are high, but the amount of insulin I use on bolusing has come down tremendously because of dieting.  I used to average anywhere from 20-25 units of insulin for a bolus / correction at mealtime and now I am down to about 10-15 units.

Well I hope you all had a great day.