Ouch!  My infusion set is hurting me today, but I do not have an extra one with me at work.  I usually try to keep one extra one every where that I would ever be in need of one, but then again that means I would need to remember to carry around the inserter everywhere I go too, which is not going to happen with my memory.  Anyway, everytime I have taken a bolus today, only twice, it has hurt like hell!

I have had it in for 3 days, but generally I go up to 5 with it.  I know this isn’t a great idea, but I haven’t had anything bad happen from it yet, so I guess I won’t learn my lesson until something bad happens.  Tennis was great last night, I had an amazing workout.  It gets better and better every week.  My girlfriend has also gotten a lot better of the past couple weeks, because I can’t take it easy anymore, I really have to play hard, which gives me a better work out also.

Well, the next thing to add to my list of never ending crazy tasks to do is start looking for a new house.  I am deciding I do not want to live in an apartment anymore, I want a house.  I know I may not be able to buy a house because I am lucky enough to live in pretty much the worst real estate market in the country, Palm Beach County, FL.  But then again, I have several advantages, but I can save that for a new blog I may be starting, probably not though, I won’t ever get around to it.

All of this craziness is just another day in the Life of a Diabetic

I have survived my first camping trip since being diagnosed 4 years ago.  I wasn’t really concerned at all about the diabetes issue while I was camping, because like I talked about in my last post, it was not true outdoor camping.  We had huge meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  I had a big bag of skittles on me almost 24/7.  I didn’t experience any lows at all, and didn’t really have any issues with morning highs either.  Maybe it was because I was not snacking all night long like I usually do when I am at home.

However, I did have two slight problems that worked themselves out very easily.  While I was in the pool, my infusion set decided it wanted to peel off my skin and float around the pool for a little swim, but we were almost done anyway, so I only went about 25-30 minutes without it.  Later that day I went to test my sugar and I couldn’t find my meter.  After searching for about 20 minutes, I found it in the backseat of the car, with all the windows up.  So the meter didn’t work for about an hour because the strips were almost melted, luckily I had that other vial of strips chillen next to the cooler.

It was not the campsite that I thought it was, this was a cowboy ranch.  It had a lot of free range animals, wild horses, cows, and bulls.  There was also a rodeo with bull riding and all that was pretty fun to watch.  I am glad to be back home though in my air conditioned office right now, but the vacation was fun to do.

It’s Friday again, time for a little bowling and blogging.  I set up my brand new fish tank this week with 8 new fish.  The water is still a little cloudy, but then again so is my head.  Last weeks bowling was not that great, but then again I didn’t bowl the week before, so I was out of my flow.  I had one good game of 179, which was higher then my blood sugar of 119, getting better.

I just signed up for my final class in order to graduate.  One final online class in the first half of the summer and then I walk down and get my degree, and by the way start studying for the GMAT. 

I am getting low on my pump supplies.  I opened up my last box of my resevoirs, and I thought I had another package coming, but somehow the automatic shipment was on hold, so luckily I called to find out when my next shipment will be sent.  I have about 3-4 reservoirs left to last me until April 14th.  I should be fine, since I am “dieting” and I’m not using as much insulin as I did when I was eating 8 tacos from Taco Bell or 5 burgers from Checkers.

It has been beautiful all week long, so I want to go to the beach this weekend, but lets see, any takers that it is going to rain alll damn weekend so I can’t go to the beach?  I’ll let you know how it went on Monday.

So, I told you all that Sunday night my infusion set was leaking.  After I changed it, I woke up and it was still a little high.  I used one of my insulin pens for an emergency.  The next day I woke up and my sugar was a little better because of the insulin pen.  So after I switched the infusion set I thought everything was fine, until yesterday morning.  I ate breakfast and then tested about an hour later, 350!  Ok, by this point I’m getting pissed because my sugars have been so high lately.  I pull out my pump to correct and I look at the cannula.  There is a nice little tear at the end of the cannula where the insulin is just dripping out of and not even make it into my body.

This is the second one within a month.  Is it something I am doing wrong?  I don’t know, but I guess that is the other thing I should check when my sugar gets high now too.  Anyway, on a higher note, I just gave my hour long presentation yesterday for an entreprenuer seminar.  I think I did a decent job, and received good ratings.  Hopefully, the investors will like.  By the way, the idea is for an indoor snowboarding facility in Orlando, FL.  Would you go?