What a weird weekend this was.  The worst part was the tie game between the Eagles and the Bengals.  This game drove me crazy, and was also one of the ugliest I have ever seen.  I remembered the last tie that took place because my dad is a huge Pittsburg Steelers fan and we were watching the game.  Also, on Saturday, I some how ended up at the local sports bar to watch the UFC fight.  This is where my blood sugars got all crazy.  My sugar went up really high when I was eating chips and salsa, but then they just dropped like crazy and went down to about 55.

I had a lot of chips in front of me, but they disappeared pretty quickly once I saw the number 55 on the meter.  I also had a really low experience yesterday that just came out of nowhere.  I was in the middle of cleaning up my house when it happened, so I had no problem stopping what I was doing, test and then take the time to eat some Skittles to get my sugars back where they needed to be.  The only part I hated about the Skittles is that I am trying to lose weight, so when I eat them or drink some OJ, it has like 150 calories, 15 minutes in the gym just to recover from a low.

Today’s weigh in is 238.  I didn’t reach my goal, but this week’s dieting is going to be a lot more intense.  I didn’t hit the gym as much as I wanted to last week.  I played tennis 3 nights, but I wanted to go to the gym right after playing tennis, but I never made it.

One final thought, my roommate was making fun of me because of the Eagles tying and being in last place, and then I stopped for a second, and said…. hey, we’re still the World Series Champs though.  So I wanted to take a little time today to recognize and not forget the the Chase Utley led Philadelphia Phillies, World Series Champs, Philiadelphia Phillies that is.

Finally, it’s over.  Whether you wanted him to win or you didn’t, it doesn’t matter now.  It’s time again for us to join together again…. which we should have been all along anyway, but I’ll save that for a political blog.  Since this is a diabetic blog, I don’t want to discuss politics, but what I will say is….. a lot has been promised, so like I said yesterday, I dare you, Mr. Obama, to do something to benefit the 23 million diabetics living in this country within your first 100 days.

But on to other things, my new insurance has kicked in and I am not paying a single penny for any of my supplies and I love it.  Enough strips to test 8 times a day, enough infusion sets to change every 2-3 days, enough insulin to go through over 150 units a day if I wanted to.  It feels great to be insured again.  The best part is that I didn’t even have to change companies.  The company I was getting them from while I was uninsured, just started billing insurances recently, so now I can stick with them and not have to deal with the headaches that I always go through whenever I go to a different supply company or pharmacy.

Well, this is going to be short and sweet today, but not too sweet because I don’t want all our sugars getting high.  Have a superb day all!

A rain out are you serious?  I can’t believe this.  Philly has been waiting over a decade to win a championship and they have to postpone it another freaking night!  And now, it feels like the Ray’s have a lot of momentum going into tonight’s game since our amazing pitcher is now out and they scored the last run of the night.  But, my blood sugar didn’t go above 150 last night during the game, amazing huh!

It was 113 when I went to sleep, but after I had coffee and breakfast this morning and took some insulin, I tested an hour later and I was 227.  I didnt have a meter handy right before I ate, so I kind of guestimated!  But I’m all good now.  I am going on a cruise this Friday, so I am getting prepared for that.  I know, I never told anybody about the cruise yet in here, but I don’t think many care anyway, ha!

I just received my new insurance card and everything today, so time for me to do some research on a new endo!

What a weekend this was.  It was filled with football, baseball, hockey, lancing devices, test strips, infusion sets, spilled insulin, high blood sugars, low blood sugars, alcohol, grilling, pasta….ohhh the life of a diabetic sports fan!

I had a goal of testing after every single quarter of every single game that I was watching, and I did!  The numbers were high for a while, which I don’t know why, but I was able to bring them back down.  However, the UF-LSU game is the reason I think they were sky high.  My roomate is a Gators fan, and I hate the Gators, so that is why I was irritated.  Yesterday was good for the Eagles, but not so good for the Phillies.

On to other things, I should know sometime this week a little more about my insurance coverage and what my next steps are going to be.  I would like to get on the CGMS, but who knows what is going to go on with that.  I don’t really mind testing my sugar, it is just that I usually forget to test, not that I don’t want to.

For the first time since I have been diabetic, the Phillies are in the NLCS. So, now that I have to be worried about my Eagles, since Westbrook has a few broken ribs, I now have to get nervous over the Phillies too. Plus hockey season is starting up. Sorry Philly fans, I am not a Flyers fan, I have been taken over by the local squad, the Florida Panthers. They have a home opener this weekend, but I can’t go because I have to watch the LSU Tigers romp the Florida Gators. That should be a great game.

Anyway, on to the diabetes. My sugars have been pretty good again today, 1 high but thats it. Also, good news, my certificate of credible coverage came in the mail yesterday, so now I have everything that I would need in order to get coverage again, hopefully. We will see, and I will keep you all updated on that.

Gotta Run!

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!

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.

So far with the new, some what of a diet, my blood sugar levels have been pretty normal.  I had a bad high last night throughout the night, which I get those from time to time.  I know it is not acceptable, but I just don’t know what else I can do.  Except only eat the same thing every night before I go to bed, something that doesn’t affect my sugar too much.  But with the diet, I really shouldn’t be eating anything before I go to bed anyway.

My move-in is almost 100% complete.  There are still a few items that need to be picked up from the old place, but I didn’t want to get them until I had all the stuff already in my new apartment put away and set up.

Only 5 more days until the insurance runs out!  I have been trying to get ahold of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Conversion program division, but have had no luck from them.  I will try them again tomorrow.  Speaking of tomorrow, it is time for my A1C test tomorrow, the last one with this insurance.  Hopefully it is a good one.

So tonight is final positioning night for the bowling league.  We are in 4th place going into tonight and only 3 points behind first place.  We will be bowling the 3rd place team, so it will be difficult to win first because we will have to rely on the 1st and 2nd place teams on splitting the games, plus we have to win all 3 games tonight.  Also, today starts the new diet, and it started out on the right foot, I was up at 6:45 today and at the gym by 7.  New apartment, new diet, new me!

I weighed myself last night, after a week of eating nothing but fast food because I was moving all week and was just grabbing stuff on the go, I weighed 250 pounds!!!!  5 years ago I weight 200 pounds, just a year ago I was 205, I have gained 45 pounds in one year, not too good.  However, the good news is that it is excessive fat that I will probably be able to shed about 10 pounds in almost a week.

Well the insurance is almost up, September 1 is approaching fast.  I have to get my blood work done before that because I have the whole 9 yards being done this time, more then just A1C.  I am expecting a better A1C then last time, but I still don’t think it is going to be under 7.  With the new diet though, I feel confident that by November, it will be under 7.0 and hopefully under 6.5!

 Have an amazing week everybody!  I promise, I will post more than I did last week.