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!

A few weeks ago I thought about how cool it would be to complete a triathalon and then I thought about how I can’t run far, I can’t swim far, and I can probably ride the bike long enough.  Then it hit me.  Start training for a triathalon.  Obviously, I will be nowhere near where I need to be, but I can at least train in all 3 areas.  So yesterday I went swimming.  Today I am going to ride the bike, then tomorrow I will run and then lift a little on Thursday.  Eventually I will like to do all 3 during the same workout, but that is still some time away.

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.

What is this thing called blogging that all these people are doing?  It’s been so long, I almost forgot how to blog!  Well I am back now, it has been an intense two weeks, a lot of things going on, working on a lot of great events that I will let you all know about shortly.

I have successfully gone a full week with the CGMS and I love it.  I don’t have it on today, but I do love it, however I have a few more questions for all of you.  I was giving these things when I received my supplies, I don’t remember their name, but it is something sort of like a transmitter adhesive patch.  But it came with no directions and I have no idea what it is used for at all.  It has stickiness on both sides, so that confuses the heck out of me.  I have just been using the IV Prep 3000 to cover it and that has seemed to be working fine.  My question about that is this, what should I use to get the stickiness off of my skin, you know the dark colored sticky stuff that stays on your skin after you take it off?

My next question is actually about the infusion set side of it, I wear the quick set.  The IV prep 3000 is good to put over the infusion set if I am, lets say going down to the Phillies – Marlins game on a Sunday afternoon at 1:30 to watch my defending World Series Champs (that’s this Sunday by the way), and it is hot and my infusion set may fall out (which happened at last year’s game).  I wouldn’t have any reason to disconnect the infusion set, so the IV Prep is fine, but is there something out there like the Iv 3000, but it has a circle cut out in it, so I can just put it over the infusion set and still be abl to connect / disconnect the tubing whenever I wanted?

All in all the CGMS was great.  I loved just pulling out my pump to see what my sugar was, and the calibration was surprisingly perfect!

I look forward to hearing answers to everything, and I appreciate it.

Thanks.

This weekend was a somewhat relaxing weekend.  Saturday was the local JDRF walk and it was a lot of fun.  I was actually asked to go on stage and be a judge in the t-shirt design contest.  It was so tough because I wanted to choose them all but unfortunately I couldn’t.  Later Saturday night I was not doing anything so I decided to finally set up the CGMS.  After attempting to input the first sensor, with shaky hands because I was nervous, I didn’t do it correctly so it started to bleed.  So, I attempted again, with a little more bravery and confidence.  This one went in successfully.  It was working fine and then after about 15 minutes my pump was giving me the symbol that it was not communicating properly with the sensor.  I was able to set it up, but still wasn’t fully confident and comfortable with how it worked, so I decided to turn it off and attempt to do it again another time.

I will spend a little more time figuring out exactly how it works, because now I have no problem inserting it because after 2 somewhat succesful tries, I think I’m ok with it now.  Wish me luck on the continued success of my CGMS.

I went to the driving range this weekend, and it was the first time that my pump gave me a problem when I went.  It was pretty hot out, so I was sweating, so one time I ripped into one with my driver and my pump fell out of my pocket and pulled my infusion set right out.  But I only had a quarter of bucket of balls left, so I kept on hitting.  As soon as I got back to my car, I tested and my sugar was about 150, so I knew I was good until I got home.  Once I got home, I took a shower, replaced the infusion set, tested again and was 185, not too bad.  I ate lunch and tested 2 hours later, and I was back down to about 120-ish.  I played a round of golf one time where I disconnected everytime I walked up to the tee and to the ball, and it was just really annoying, so I just trained myself to play with the pump on.

My other blood sugar scare was later that night however.  I went to the Florida Panthers game, and when I got there I felt really thirsty so tested my sugar and I was about 375, how the hell did this happen I haven’t ate anything for like 4 hours.  I was starving and had to eat something, so I didn’t know what to do.  So I took 25 units of insulin (the max bolus on my pump) and then as soon as that one was done, I took anothe 25.  I know it’s not the best solution, but I didn’t have anymore pens, so I had to do something!  Tested after the first period, down to 250, tested after the second period, down to 110, tested after the game before we got on the Turnpike, dropping to about 75, so I ate some Skittles for the 20 minute ride home.

Later that night we went out to a local hangout, Hurricane’s in Delray, and my sugars were fine, but I started to feel a little low again, so luckily my amazing girlfriend had some Skittles handy in her purse.  Her purse fits my little meter and skittles perfectly!

Saturday was a pretty eventful blood sugar day!

What a long weekend this was, and short at the same time.  Does that make any sense?  Saturday morning was an early morning because the Panthers had an open practice, so of course I had to go to try and get some autographs.  We did get there a little late, so there wasn’t any autographs that I could get.  We did get to watch a little of the practice and then some of the Bruins practice also.  I then had to run over the site of the ADA’s Pembroke Pines Tour de Cure to drop off some supplies to them.  Then my girlfriend and I had to kill time before the 7 p.m. Panther’s game.  We went to a mall and then over to the Sawgrass Mills.  We had some dinner and then it was time to go to the game.  And what a game it was, 2-0, 41 save shutout for the Panthers.  It was amazing in there, loud, play-off atmosphere!  My sugar was running a little high because my insulin was running low.  I didn’t realize when I left the house in the morning I only had about 60 units of insulin for the next 12 hours.  That may be a lot for some people, but I have a 2.1 basal rate, so that’s about 25 units right there.  Plus lunch and dinner boluses, I had about 2.5 units when I got home after the game.

Yesterday was another early morning in order to be at the Tour de Cure very early.  It was a great event, I wish I could have been riding.  After that I went home and took a nap and prepared for the NASCAR race.  Then my sugar went high.  I tested and it was about 350, so I corrected.  2 hours later I tested and I was 397, doesn’t make any sense.  I feel my infusion set and it is soaked, smell my fingers, and just as I suspected…..the great smell of insulin leaking!  So I used my insulin pen to correct and then inserted a new infusion set.

Now, it is Monday and I am back to work. H ave a great day!

Well the $0.20 tacos from Taco Bell last night really put a damper in my diet.  After I got done eating I went right to the gym and worked out for a good hour, but still there is no making up for that.  That means nothing but salads for me for the rest of the week.  Even after eating the tacos last night my blood sugars were still at pretty good levels.  My sugars are almost perfect while working out now.  I guess its the new basal strategy that I have started using for the hour that I work out.

I can now run a little longer then I could a couple of weeks ago, but I still don’t think it is enough for me to go out and start trying to play basketball again.  Basketball is a different type of being in shape though.  You can run for miles but still get tired during basketball.  I wanted to go out and play some golf this weekend because football is finally over, sad sad sad, but the weather down here in Florida is getting too cold for me.  I came out this morning and it was 42 degrees, not why I moved to Florida.  However, I do like it to be right around 55-65, that’s perfect weather.

Well, before I leave, let me tell you about the frustrating thing that happened this morning.  As I was filling my reservoir with insulin this morning, it was almost full and the plunger decided to fall out and all the insulin fell out all over my floor and hands.  And insulin is not the best smelling stuff in the world.  But I was so pissed that I just lost 3 days of insulin.  And it reminded me to follow up with the insulin company to get my refill.

Today is a disappointing day, because I had expected to be celebrating a trip to the Super Bowl, however that is not happening.  It was a season filled with ups and downs, and mainly ups towards the end of the season.  I know all of the Philadelphia papers today are going to be tearing Donovan and Andy apart, but I will not do so because Donovan kept the team in the game.  But this is not a sports blog, so that is all I will speak about today.  However, now it’s time to GO Magic, Panthers, and Michigan State!

I had a pretty high sugar yesterday because my insulin was leaking and I didn’t even know it.  Starting to get accustomed to this.  I lose a lot of insulin because of this happeneing, but luckily I spot it very quickly.  I took out my infusion set last night and just used my pen to fix the high and then put in a new infusion set.  When I woke up this morning, I was still a little high, but not as bad as I was when the insulin was leaking.

I didn’t break my diet as bad yesterday as I did the last 2 weekends of football, so my weight is still off and didn’t really gain anything over the weekend.  I don’t know if I will work out tonight because there is a Panthers game, and if I don’t work out on Monday’s, then it seems the whole week is shot.  If I am really dedicated to this diet, I will work out after the game.

Well you all have a great day!

Last full day in Florida until after Christmas.  I can’t believe that I am already going back home tomorrow.  I haven’t backed, I haven’t done laundry, I haven’t cleaned, I haven’t done a single thing that I need to do in order to be ready to go home.  I finished up all of my Christmas shopping yesterday, and then by the way, my car wouldn’t start.  That was really great for my blood sugar.  I popped the hood and my battery was like disintegrated.  There was so much battery acid on there, it looked like blue whipped cream on top of there.  So I cleaned it off and had to jump it.  Oh, great, I’m not able to jump it because there are cars near me and I can’t reach my girlfriend’s car, so I have to go to Sear’s and get a longer cable.  Finally I get it to start and I cleaned it out with baking soda and water then and let it run for about 20-30 minutes and try to charge it up a bit, no luck.

I need to take the battery out and charge it, but there is a problem on that also, I can’t get the bolt off!  So after all that, I test my sugar and I was at about 325.  So I go to correct and I realize, oh crap I was out of insulin before all this started and I had to reload my pump and I totally forgot because of this whole ordeal.  So I fly home for a week tomorrow, so I will let the battery charge for a while since I will be gone and hopefully I come back and it is all ok.

Anyway, I received an e-mail with my A1C yesterday and I was highly disappointed.  It was exactly 7.0%.  My educator suggested that the reason could be elevations right after meals because I tend to not bolus until about 5 minutes before my meal or maybe in the middle of it.  So I need to start bolusing about 20 minutes before hand.  When I go out to eat, I usually do because after I decide on what I am going to eat, I will bolus and then by the time the food gets there, it has been a good 10 minutes or so.  I will continue to work on that, so my next goal is to be at about 6.5%, or at least between 6.5% – 7.0%

I probably won’t post again until after Christmas, so…. to all a good night

I had a huge diabetic halloween party scare this past Saturday, and not scare as in somebody’s mask.  Let me build up to the scary part first.  After debating between the Joker and Indiana Jones I decided to go with Chase Utley (Phillies 2nd baseman for those that don’t know).  So throughout the night I was cheering on my Phillies and it was a very close game.  In about the 7-8 inning, I started to feel my sugar getting extremely low.  I tested, and it was at about 35.  I just started eating a mass amount of food, whatever I could get my hands on.  There was chips, chocolate candy, candy corn, a lot of different things.

The party was a great party, especially since the Phillies won in the bottom of the 9th on a great hit by Carlos Ruiz.  I was even happier because I actually tested my blood sugar out at a Halloween party.  I’ve been testing a lot more because I have a couple meters in different places.  As I am typing right now, I know my numbers are a little high because I have to go home from work in order to change my infusion set.  My insertor at work broke, and I brought the wrong prep pads.  I grabbed a regular antiseptic that I use when I have to use my insulin pen, which I can’t use now because I don’t have another pen needle!  Time to re-up my supplies at my office desk!

Phillies one game away from a World Series Championship!