Well, what a week it has been.  After coming back from a nice, but short vacation, it was time to get back to reality.  First, I received the keys to my new apartment and started to move in most of my stuff, got all the big stuff out of the way first.  This whole process of moving and getting the keys was very stressful, but didn’t have much affect on my sugar levels, which surprised me.  Then yesterday when I was doing a lot of moving, I was doing it pretty quickly because it looked like it was going to rain, so I was sweating and getting a good race of the heart.  My levels shot up though.  Different types of exercise make my levels do something different everytime, I can’t quite figure it out yet.

I will be going to Daytona Beach, FL for the weekend and I always have a habit of not testing while away.  It gets as bad as not even testing once in a 3 days period.  I told myself that I will test at least 4 times a day still, no excuses, even if it means carrying a little bag around with me every single place that I go, I don’t care!

Lastly, I have another A1C test coming up pretty soon, so stayed tuned for the next round of results.  I have to get the test done before my insurance runs out at the end of the month!  Still haven’t found a conclusion for this yet!

Is anybody out there familiar with the BCBS Conversion system?  I am insured under BCBS of PA until the end of this month, and BCBS FL will not accept me because I have the diabetes.  However, they said I can keep the same coverage that I have but just convert it to BCBS FL, however it is pricey, and nobody would give me a price.

Is anybody out there doing this or know anything about this?  Sorry this is such a short post, but I have a lot of phone calls and denials to go through.

What a weekend!  I spent all day yesterday cleaning up the apartment because my family is coming to visit this Friday.  Thank goodness its Bowling and Blogging Monday!  Friday night I went out to dinner with my girlfriend and then did nothing at all.  Same thing Saturday, what a fun, fun weekend.  I watched a National Lampoon’s movie on Saturday about a national grocery bagging competition, it was funny at times, but also boring at others.

There is only 3 more weeks of bowling left.  Last week, we bowled bad again, and we had a chance to move up to 4-5 place, and then we could have taken down the top teams, but tonight we definetly have our work cut out for us.  The sugar levels have been lower then the bowling scores, which is great because I haven’t been bowling that well in this league.

Thanks to those who gave me feedback about the A1C kits and the magazines that they like.

Lack of diabetes knowledge, thats what I want to talk about today.  There are a lot of people that don’t know what diabetes is, they heard of it, but don’t know what it means.  With there being more people with diabetes then just about any other disease, you would think people would have more knowledge about it, unfortunately they don’t.  For instance, when speaking to somebody yesterday i said I was diabetic and they replied back with, “Oh, I’m sorry to hear.”  So I replied back like any normal diabetic would, “Sorry?  Sorry for what?  Theres nothing to be sorry about, I can manage my diabetes, it doesn’t control my life.”

Also, I went to an ADA kick-off breakfast this morning and I always leave these type of events, extremely motivated to start testing more often.  Which also makes me think about the hard work these people do to spread awareness, and the ignorance of people who just don’t care.  I am coming up on my next A1C test, I have to get it done before my insurance runs out.  Is there anybody out there who has to pay for this testing out of pocket, how much does it run usually?

Also, I would like some feedback from my…. very few readers.  I come in every morning and have about 20-30 comments, but they are all spam.  I would like to have some more interesting material that people would want to comment on and make my blog a little better.  I am still some what new to the blogging, well I’ve been around for a year now.

Finally, it’s coming around the end of the subscription of one of my magazines and I want to start getting some more diabetes related ones, any suggestions from any of you?

So Friday I ventured off to Orlando with my girlfriend for her birthday (yes we found silver heels!)  First thing of the night was going to Downtown Disney and visiting Cirque Du Soleil.  If you have not witnessed this event live, you MUST!  It was the most incredible, shocking, speechless thing on earth.  I want to go back again already.  At times there is so much going on that you don’t know what to look at.  But overall, it was magical.

After that, we headed over to Pleasure Island because my girlfriend would be 21 in 15 minutes, so we stand in line to get into a club and at 11:54 exactly they say “I’m sorry but you have to wait 6 minutes”  I was furiated because I timed the line wrong and figured it would be midnight by the time we got up there.  So we went back in line and made it right at midnight.  We had a lot of fun in the “Motions” nightclub, and then headed over to the “BET Soundstage” for about 15 minutes.  I was pretty disappointed in the fact it only stayed open until 2 a.m., I would have figured at least 4.

Saturday morning came and we spent all day (10:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m.) at Magic Kingdom.  We were able to accomplish every single ride and attraction to see.  We watched the fireworks, which are just magical and worth the price of a ticket by themselves.  They give you a little button that says “Today is my birthday” and when I went in March with my aunt, they gave her free water, ice cream, and etc. at every place we went, my girlfriend did not get a single thing free i was mad.  Well, she did get happy birthday sang to her at the Noodle Station (in Tomorrowland) and they gave her a little dessert!

One of the things that made my day had nothing to do with Magic Kingdom.  We asked a gentleman to take our picture and he did and as I was walking away I heard him say, “Hey, are you diabetic?”  And I turned around and proudly said, “Yes, I am for almost 5 years now.”  He pointed to his daughter, about 7-8 years old, and says, “she is too, she’s had it since she was 8, show him her pump honey”  She showed me her pump, same one I had.  Then came the cutest thing I ever heard in my life (I can’t believe I just said cute), she looked at me and said, “My last number was 104, what was yours?”  I responded with, “I haven’t tested for a few hours, but it was 180″, and the best advice I ever had followed, “Well, thats a little high, you should probably test again!”

Like I said, a magical experience!

My next A1C visit is not for another month and a half, but I actually feel pretty confident about this one now. Other then all the highs in the morning, there haven’t been too many during the day, so I think I will hit my record low, which shouldn’t be too hard to beat because I think the record low is right around 7.3, nothing to brag about.  I am still working that morning low, but man is it taking forever to figure out.  I don’t have good sleep patterns, so it is tough to test at 3 a.m., because some nights I’m not going to bed until then, so I probably ate something after midnight, then some nights I fall asleep earlier and haven’t eaten.  So, everything varies way too much.

This weekend I am going back out to look at some more new potential places to live.  Last week I went looking for individual home, but this week I am looking at more townhouses, condos and apartment complexes.  I am going with my actual roomate this weekend instead of just my girlfriend (who is my roomate’s sister), weird huh?  He’s not really ready to sign into a lease, but I know we need to soon because our move in date is mid-August, and these nice places will be rented out right away.

Well, no fun plans for me this weekend, although my girlfriend may be getting a new tattoo, so I guess that makes it exciting for me also!  What are all of your feelings on diabetics and tattoos, I have heard its not good for you, but then again I know some diabetics all tatted up!  I’m thinking about a Philadelphia Eagles tat.

My blood sugars were really good all day yesterday.  I had one high of 250 after I ate some pasta, but other then that, they were excellent.  Once again, pasta makes me high.  You know what really ticked me off this morning?  I love to come into the office in the morning and check out some of the most recent posts from all my fellow d-bloggers from the diabetic news headlines, but this morning the past 20-some posts were nothing but recipe after recipe.  That is what I consider spam.  I like to see new recipes, but 20-30 all at once?

I don’t know if anybody else really cares about that, but I basically use that as my blogroll and skim through the latest posts, especially with the ADA San Francisco just ending people have a lot of interesting posts and comments from it.  Well, anyway, yesterday it stormed really bad so I couldn’t go running, but I tried to get a work out inside the apartment.  Any quick indoor exercise techniques anybody uses, with no exercise equipment being used?  Today is tennis day and it seems like as of right now it shouldn’t rain, but who knows in south Florida.  I always say that weather people and baseball players are the only ones who don’t get fired for being right or doing good only 30% of the time.  But if the weather people down here were baseball players, they would be getting sent to the minors because they’re only batting about .100 right now.

Today is the sad day I hate, opening my last box of infusion sets and reservoirs, that means time to re-order, and with still no luck with my insurance coverage, its back to paying for them myself.  Thankfully I only pay about $110 for my infusion sets, because I had to get more of them one time before and it was almost $200.

Well since I can never remember to watch the DLife show on Sunday’s, I just set my DVR and watch it whenever I remember to.  So, last night I watched this week’s most recent episode and is it just me or is everybody else inspired and ready to go grab a bike and start riding?  It amazes me that Team Type 1 can manage their sugar levels that damn well with the intense workouts they have.  I exercise for 15 minutes and my blood sugars go high.  After I get done running my sugar is usually 30-50 points higher.

I was really motivated and have been testing my sugar a lot more often, I know it’s only been about 12 hours since I watched it, but I have tested almost 10 times so far since then.  The race starts tomorrow and I am going to be staying tuned to see how well they are doing.  I hope they take first place again!

I have been wanting to go riding for a while, but I don’t live in the best neighborhood to do it, and I can’t throw the bikes in the back of my car to go to a bike path.  So that is why I was going to by an exercise bike until I couldn’t find one for a reasonable price.  Anybody have one to donate?!!??!!??  No, but I really am going to buy one soon, I think I am going to wait until I move because I will have a third bedroom for my office / weight room.

The skies are looking scary down here in south Florida!

Managing my diabetes is for sure a full time job.  Except this one, I don’t get paid for.  It takes a lot to fully manage this stuff.  Testing the blood sugar is the easy part, but reading a number off of a machine has nothing to do with management to me.  Trying to eat healthy every single day is the hardest part.  It’s no fun when you drive by Taco Bell and you can’t even pull through the drive thru and buy anything because you’re trying to lose 20 lbs to become healthier.

Yesterday at the bowling alley, I was proud of myself, I only had a little bit of popcorn, and a few Miller Lite beers to wash it all down.  All night long I bowled higher then my blood sugar.  I don’t know if it was good control, or just good bowling, with a 3 game average of 165.  This is a fun league, which bowling is always fun, but I also take it seriously because there is a lot of money on the line here.  Last night we were playing a team who was just there for the $1 drafts, and they were using our personal balls that we have paid for and cleaned and had holes drilled for our own fingers, so it was very irritating.

So a little update on me waking up high every morning.  I can say that because I am diabetic, but it seems that if I eat peanut butter in some sort of way at night, it controls my levels and doesn’t take me too high.  But that doesn’t mean I can eat 5 PB&J sandwiches, it means that I eat an english muffin with 1 tablespoon of peanut butter on each side and a small glass of milk.  Makes me go to sleep easier also.

Well, just another day in the Life of a Diabetic!

Well, tonight begins the new season of the Monday Night Miller Lite League.  So my new blog title will be Bowling and Blogging Monday, instead of Friday’s as before.  My goal, other then winning and bowling well every week is to keep the blood sugars lower then my bowling average.  Also, with the diet I can not be snacking and picking at chips and salsa every week like I was before.  I cheated big time on my diet this weekend, but oh well.  I went to Smokey Bones, if you don’t know it, greatest ribs in the world!

So, I went to see the Indiana Jones movie on Friday also, screw what the critics say, that movie was great.  It was a little different then the other’s with the aliens and all, but it was great.  The movie theatre is actually the best place to get a low, because there is so much bad food you want to be eating anyway, so I just tear up all the candy and nachos and cheese, it’s not healthy, but it is great.

Not much new in the diabetes part of my life, same ole’ same ole’.

But life goes on, with the Life of a Diabetic!