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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

So tomorrow is the doctor’s appointment.  As of today I am 14 pounds lighter then I was about 45 days ago on my last visit.  Hopefully that stays true to the next time I have an appointment and I will be down to the 220 range.  I’m still not going to stop there, not until I reach 200-205, then I will stop trying to lose weight and maintain that weight, maybe put a little more back on, but hopefully in the muscle format and not fat format.

In the middle of all this dieting, it is apparent that I must test my sugars a lot more often because my eating habits are not as much, so I am using less insulin.  Also, the more active I am becoming the more sensitive to insulin I become which will hopefully bring down my basal rates.  Then that means I can at least try out these other pumps that don’t hold 300 units of insulin, or else I’d be changing sets every day and a half, not something I want to do.

Well I hope you all have a great day.

While doing all of this, I plan on trying to keep my CGM connected even though it seems to fall off everytime I start sweating a lot.  Mainly when I golf.  That reminds me, I haven’t worn my CGM in a few weeks, better put it back on since my doctor asked me to where it all the time from my last visit until my next one, oooppss.

Is everybody ready to test at 4 p.m. today.  I sure am.  I had some pasta for lunch, so I’m not so sure my number is going to be one of the lowest, but it will be fun to see where everybody’s numbers are.

Well I hope you all have a fantastic day.

Last night I had to take out my sensor because it was starting to hurt a little bit and then when I took the dressing off, I saw that the actual sensor was pretty much coming out anyway, so I think that is what hurt.  I didn’t re-insert a new one last night, so I just let the transmittor charge and I will put another one in again tonight.  That was one of the main things that I discussed with my endo, she said that if I have a CGMS and supplies for it, why not use it every single day?  So, I said, good call doc and trying to keep it on everyday.  Even on the days that I am not wearing it, I still test about 8-10 times.

My morning sugars have been coming down lately, except for this morning.  It was a 298 about 30 minutes after I ate breakfast.  I had a bagel this morning, and when I went there I pulled out the meter in my laptop bag and I was fresh out of strips (last night I forgot to remind myself to grab another box and put in there!).  So I couldn’t test before I ate, but I know that breakfast could not have raised it that much that fast, so it must have been around that when I woke up.  I went to bed with a 135 sugar and had a PB&J, which usually keeps my sugars level.

Well you all have an amazing day today!

Hmmm, if the sensor didn’t want to stay on, I could only imagine the plans that my infusion set had.  Luckily, the night before I thought it may be a good idea to bring another infusion set and iv pads and dressings and my insertion device.  Hole # 2, infusion set falls out.  I tested my sugar multiple times and it was staying steady around 120-140.  I made it to about the 8th hole where there ending up being a bathroom so I stopped in quickly and re-inserted the infusion set.  This one actually stayed in the rest of the course.

The group behind us caught up to us a little bit because of that stoppage, but oh well, that’s what happens when you play golf with a diabetic!

Well, have a great day everybody!