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.

Well I started to get sick two nights ago and yesterday was really bad.  My head hurt, my throat, and the worst part was that my whole entired body ached.  I couldn’t even really move out of bed because it felt like I just ran a 30 mile marathon.  I loaded up on the vitamin C last night and ate some good ole chicken noodle soup and went to bed early last night and even slept in an extra hour today.

I feel a little better today, however I am still really stuffy and my mind is feeling a little foggy.  The part that I am the most excited about however is that my sugar levels have not gone above 150 since I’ve been sick.  I have done a better job managing my sugars while being sick, then I do sometimes when I’m not.  I guess it has to do with testing my levels more frequently.  Which reminds me, DUH, I have a CGMS, why the hell don’t I use it?

Onto other things, the Magic play again tonight.  I need to go to the grocery store since I was gone for a few days in New Orleans, but I don’t feel like going tonight, so I will go this weekend.  I will most likely be golfing this weekend also, but that has not been verified yet.  Hopefully I put the CGMS on either tonight or tomorrow morning so I can use it throughout the weekend.  I think the #1 reason why I don’t always put it back on is because I get nervous inserting it, and typically I waste one before the second one goes in correctly.

Well that seems to sum up everything that is going on in this diabetics wonderful life.

Last week’s Diabetes Educator of the Year award ceremony was great.  I was honored with a nice little plaque and watching the winner receive her award was great also.  Diabetes Education is so important and this award really means a lot to me, which is why I accepted to be a judge for it.

I have started exercising again and eating a little lighter, so I am excited to begin my weight loss again.  My parents are coming down for vacation later this month, so I need to make myself look somewhat skinnier.  Plus, I have a lot of trade shows coming up over the next few months, so I have to fit myself back into all those nice dress clothes that I have.  I hate eating myself out of a new pair of jeans.

Orlando Magic started their series last night with Boston and before the game started I said to my girlfriend, “I hope this series isn’t like Boston’s first round, with all the overtime games, my heart can’t take something like that”  And what do you know, they were up like 30 and the Celtics came back to about 4 with a few minutes to go.  This stuff isn’t great for a diabetic!

My A1C is scheduled for next Monday, but it is a non-fasting one, so I better eat healthy Sunday night, so I don’t wake up with a high blood sugar, because that just makes the blood work even worse, especially if my A1C level is too high.

Sorry for the randomness, but my mind is just all over the place.

Have  a great day everybody!

To those who didn’t know, I was selected as one of the three judges for the American Diabetes Wholesale Second Annual Diabetes Educator of the Year Award.  The voting for the three finalists had ended abotu 2 months ago, and the ceremoney to announce the winner is next week,  so I have been trying to plan this stuff out.  The ceremony is right down the road in Boca Raton, FL.

It should be cool, I will be meeting some good people in the diabetes community, Charlie Kimball (type 1 diabetic Indy Car driver), Mr. Diabetes, Christopher Thomas (Diabetic Rockstar), Donna Rice (former AADE president).

I am also excited to find out who the winner is, they have kept it secret the whole time.

On other news, I am excited about this weekend since the Phillies are coming to town.  I am actually only able to make it to Sunday’s game, but I haven’t even bought my tickets yet, I should probably do that soon.

Well you all have a great day.

Christmas time has come so fast.  I will already be going back home in just a few days.  It seems like it was just yesterday that I was flying back home from Thanksgiving.  Well tomorrow is my A1C test, so that means fasting tonight.  I will probably eat some fruit right around 10:30-ish, and then that is it.  Drink some water in the morning to make the blood work go a little easier and hope that I’m under 7%.  I think that I may be this month.  It would be a great Christmas gift, plus it will make my educator happy.

I’m also in the process of trying to get approved for CGMS through the insurance company.  From what I’ve read, I have a long road in front of me.  But I can’t do anything other than just try and wish for the best.  I don’t know if I want to wear a whole new infusion set on my body along with the one that I already have, but if it helps me control my levels better, then I guess it is worth it.  I will do a little more research about it before I obviously go on it.  Either way, I still want to upgrade to the newer version of the pump I am on, just in case I do decide to go on the CGMS, at least I will have the right pump.

You know what, I have so much shopping and things I still have to do before Friday night.  We are having an early Christmas dinner and Christmas gift exchange since I will be flying back home this weekend.  I have no idea what to get anybody, and with time running out, who knows what I will settle on.  Maybe I should make a list, that would probably help.

Hopefully this weekend is going to be a relaxed filled one.  I do not have any plans directly, however something always pops up and it gets hectic.  I plan on going to the driving range sometime this weekend, hopefully Saturday and then actually going golfing sometime on Sunday, but who knows, probably won’t get around to either one of them.  Sunday night is a big night because it is the Eagles – Giants game which is definitely going to mess with my blood sugar levels.

Sunday is also going to be a day that I am going out for pizza for dinner for my girlfriend’s grandfather’s birthday, so that right there also always screws with my blood sugar.  So that should be a fun night filled with testing my levels constantly.  Another thing this weekend is that I think my girlfriend is going to start on her photo album of our cruise, she always makes some awesome scrapbooking things…. hmmm maybe a business idea.  Send us your pics and she will scrapbook them for you!  Any buyers?  Well, I should probably ask her first huh?

Well you all have a great, safe weekend, and come back Monday to see how my sugars were throughout the game…. if you care…….later!

I think I have tested more in the last 3-4 days, than I ever had in any 3-4 day period before….and I LOVE it.  Even though it is expensive to test, I feel a lot more comfortable in knowing every 60 minutes what my sugar level is.  I am not on a CGMS yet, so this is the best way for me to know constantly what my levels are.  It’s also helping me cure those times that I seem to always have a high, wacky number.  I have increased my basal rate for when I am sleeping and so far it has been doing better.

On another note, I get a phone call from my soon to be 8 year old niece telling me about this person she colored and his name is flat Stanley and she has to send it to me and I have to take pictures with it and keep a journal and it is all being graded for her.  Yes, I was just as lost as  you all were right now.  She was explaining to me that a chalkboard fell on top of him, that is why he is flat.  Well, I guess it is a book that they are reading in their 3rd grade class and this is their class project.  So, Flat Stanley went from cold Pennsylvania winter to going to the beach with me this weekend.

I thought this whole chalkboard thing was my niece’s imagination, and it scared me a little that her imagination was that vivid!  But come to find out that it was the author’s.  So the point of this is, Stanley is getting to go on a trip to Florida, however, he will also learn about Diabetes, and what he needs to do in case of an emergency, and I think this will be a great opportunity to teach the kids in the classroom a little about Diabetes also!

It has been so long since the last time I posted, I almost forgot how to do it.  Plus my computer is running a little funky on me today, so my font is really messed up and I don’t know why.  Things have been crazy lately, which is why I haven’t posted in a while.

First, let me start with a good story.  This past Friday night I was out wit my girlfriend, her brother and his girlfriend and we were at a local bar in south Florida and we saw this guy sitting at the bar and I said, “Man, he looks just like that Adam guy who won Big Brother.”  Next thing you know, he turns around, and guess who, it was him!  She wanted a picture with him so bad, but I didnt want to be a groupie so I didnt ask, but her brother talked to him for a while, and he was really cool and he comes out to that bar all the time, so we will see him again.

Then on Saturday we went to the Marlins and Phillies game.  We were right at the right-center fence, literally, the first row.  We  caught about 4-5 balls during batting practice and then throughout the game, got a couple of balls from the players.  Finally today I have nothing to do after work, I can go home and relax.

I have everything completed that I need to do for my new apartment, I just have to wait on the HOA and get things rolling with that.  I can’t wait to get out of the place that I am in now.  Crime central is what the complex should be called.  Well, now that I just started to remember what blogging is all about, I have to end this post.  Catch  you all tomorrow!

Well, I think it has been settled where my next place of living is going to be.  A nice 2 story, 2 master bedrooms, and 2.5 baths, for only $1,100 a month.  It all sounds good to me.  Life has been crazy busy lately, so I haven’t really been able to post anything on here.  Also, nothing exciting has been going on either.  I do have an exciting night tonight of going looking for silver heels for my girlfriend for this weekend since we are going to Orlando for her birthday.  I mentioned earlier in a post about not being able to tell anybody what I was planning because it was a surprise, but I told her so now I can tell all of you.

I am taking her to Orlando to go to Cirque du Soleil and then to Pleasure Island afterwords for when she turns 21 at midnight.  The next day we will be going to Magic Kingdom and spend the day with the Princesses, since that is what she is.

Well, I must finish up some things before I head out of the office.  Have a great day everybody!

Another Friday, another week of work finished.  I do not want to do anything at all this weekend, I just want to lay in bed and sleep all weekend.  I have actually started playing a little bit of playstation again, my girlfriend hates it!  She also hates staying inside on the weekends and just being lazy.  Oh well.  I think I am going to see the Indiana Jones movie this weekend, I can not wait.

I also want to see the new Strangers movie, but I don’t know if I will be able to sleep after seeing something like that.  The way the world is now, that could happen any day of the week.  What does all this have to do about diabetes?  Absolutely nothing.  I decided today, I don’t even want to talk about diabetes.  Well, I am right now, but this is the end of it, no more.  Let’s talk about some of the fun things in life, like the Indiana Jones movie, or Call of Duty 4, or hell even chinese food.

You know what really bugs me?  Since I started dieting, Taco Bell (my weakness) started the whole .79 , .89 , .99 campaign and I can’t eat it.  I have cut fast food out completly and now they decide to do this.  That irritates me.  Why does a rain cloud come by and then it clears up and then it starts raining again?  Why are there so many dragonflies flying around right now, do they really love the heat that much?  Who will win, Celtics or Pistons?  I hate Kobe Bryant, but I love watching him play, so I would love to see a Kobe- Richard Hamilton match up, that should be interesting.  What’s for dinner tonight, I usually go out to eat on Friday’s, but I don’t know where I want to go.

So, if you all wondered what goes through my head in about a 5 minute span, there you go!  Good news everybody, bowling league starts back up this upcoming Monday.  You know what the best part of it is, it is a Miller Lite league.  If I have never expressed this before, I ONLY drink Miller Lite.  My whole apartment is designed in Miller Lite and Eagles stuff.  $1 Miller Lite drafts throughout the night also, compared to their usualy $3.50.  I am excited!

So, these have been my random thoughts of the Life of a Diabetic