Well it’s Monday again and now it’s back to work after a week of vacation.  So sad  I will never fly back into town late on a Sunday ever again.  My flight was delayed about 40 minutes, and it took 30 minutes for my bag to come out so I didn’t get home last night until close to midnight and here I am up at 6:45 a.m. making coffee.  Didn’t have a chance to unpack, unwind, or un-anything.  Vacation was fun however.  It’s also time to get the weight back down, eating habits back under control, and the blood sugars to better levels.

I have to change my infusion set also, it’s starting to itch and irritate a little bit.  I put it in Saturday morning, so I guess it’s time to come off.  It was really hot in PA so the sweat started to pull it off anyway.  For the first time ever I wore my CGM for the whole sensor life.  Usually it falls off, or I end up taking it off before the sensor life is up.  Mostly it’s because I wear it golfing and it always falls off during golfing.

Well tomorrow’s post should be a little more fun because there will be pictures to add, but I haven’t been able to load any of them up since I just got home about seven hours ago and needed some sleep.

Well I hope you all have a wonderful day.

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!

I am officially back home in PA.  I was at a conference since Sunday in New York and loved it.  It was a great conference and the pictures that I was able to take were incredible as well.  My blood sugars were great the whole entire time.  There was once when I had a level of over 300, but that is it.  Other then that, they were all below 160-ish.  I am getting ready to insert a new sensor because I want to wear it the whole time that I am home because I know I will be eating bad, really bad food.  Actually I already did, 5 minutes of being home and I made it over to the famous “Greasy Dicks” for a cheesesteak, extra hot extra pickle, and cheeseburger everything extra pickle.  I held back on the double chocolate thin milkshake though.

My blog is going to be “under construction” over the next few weeks.  There will be a new url for the blog and new look.  For those that are daily readers, the construction shouldn’t affect the content area of the blog, so no big deal.  I will post up some pictures tomorrow from the trip.

Hope you all have a great day.

Last day at the office before a 3 day conference and then home for a little vacation.  It feels great going to a conference knowing that I am not one of the vendors this time and that I can actually go to the lectures and learn and walk around and get to know more people in the field that I am in.  It also makes it a little more fun since I am going to be in New York and staying in the Hilton.  I will make sure to take lots of pictures from my hotel room.  With my luck, I will end up being on like the 2nd or 3rd floor.  I am trying to plan out what time the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) is open because everytime I go to New York I have to go there, it never gets old.  But it takes several hours to go through it and I don’t really have the time to do that because the conference schedule is very tight, a lot of lectures to attend.

That leaves me with a lot to do between tonight and tomorrow night.  I have a lot of laundry, cleaning, and packing to do.  I can only take 1 bag because I am flying Jet Blue and they charge after 1 bag, so I have to pack smartly.  I have to make sure that I have all of my diabetes needs packed.  If anyone has ever flown with a Medtronic CGM on, can you please leave me a little note and let me know if you went through smoothly?  I’m excited to get home and spend time with the family.  I know it will also be stressful because of the news that was just recently given to me, so I will be testing a lot more frequently.  I’m definitely not going to overeat like I usually do.  Only one night I will let loose and eat a lot, but I will control my eating habits.

Well I hope you all have a great day and weekend and I’ll be posting at home this time around.

Yesterday I flew up to Jacksonville FL to attend the dinner reception for Camp JADA.  It was another great kids camps that I was honored to be able to attend.  You meet so many wonderful little kids and their excitement level is crazy!  But then there was the trip back home.

This trip consisted of, going to bed at 12:30 a.m.  Waking up at 3:45 a.m.  Going to the airport at 4:30 a.m.  Flying from 6:30 – 7:30 a.m.  Driving straight to work, and here I am.  I am on coffee # 4 already and it is only 10 a.m.  This should be an interesting day.

Anyway, on to other things.  My blog will be going through a complete re-design shortly.  So, when I update my blogroll, finally, and I missed your site, don’t hesitate to let me know.  The new blog will have a more personal touch to it, basically, a lot more pictures and interactivity.

Have a great day everybody!

Well, I am back from New Orleans.  My flight got in last night and that is a story by itself.  In short, the weather from West Palm Beach, FL and all the way out west in Ft. Myers was not very good.  Our plane was sent to circle around for about 30 minutes above the Gulf to wait for the weather to clear.  This was already after our flight was delayed about 30 minutes.

New Orleans was great!  Where shall I start?  There was the business side, and then there was the pleasure side.  And some was a little bit of both.  Lets start with the business and convention side.  I learned a lot from the Scientific Sessions.  No I am not a doctor, I was there exhibiting for the company that I work for and spreading the good word.  Just from wondering around the floor, I learned a lot.  Obviously being type 1, I wanted to get as much information about all the studies and new products and releases that I possibly could, well at least ones that I understood.

All in all I think that there were a lot of good products and studies that will hopefully show some promising results in the near future, most importantly, the Close Loop system from Medtronic.  Also, being able to meet up with Charlie Kimball after his autograph signing session.  With GlucoStories getting off to a great start, Charlie was very excited about the flyers we were handing out.

I will get into the pleasure side of it, aka Bourbon Street at night in tomorrow post.  I have some pictures, but I may not have a chance to upload them until later this week.

So my parents have been gone for less than a week, I’ve been back to work for less than a week, and I’m leaving to go to New Orleans in less than a week.  Everything seems to be less than a week.  My vacation went well and it was a great relaxation.  I didn’t put on too much weight, and really didn’t have any highs at all, which I was really surprised about.  One thing that I did get reminded about because I completely forgot after I had to cancel my appointment was when my mom asked me what my A1C was.  Ooops, I never rescheduled my appointment.

So, I leave Friday morning to head out to New Orleans for the ADA’s 69th Scientific Sessions.  It should be a great show.  I look forward to learning a lot and meeting a lot of people.  I will be there for both work and pleasure.  Let me know if any of you are going.

I can’t believe it is already June 1, and now hurricane season.  Which means that it’s time to stock up on supplies and make sure that I have an emergency plan ready to go.  No more waiting until only 1 vial of insulin left, because you can never trust the weather.

Well, I hope you all have an amazing day and great rest of the week.

Ahhhh…what a relaxing weekend it was.  Friday night there was a Panthers game, and we lost, which that sucked but no big deal.  Saturday morning my girlfriend and I went down to Ft. Lauderdale to spend the whole day at the beach and pool. 

We had a voucher for a free night in a hotel so we decided to just use it to get away for the night and relax from the hectic schedules we have been living.  I brought about 4-5 infusion sets with me just in case.  I started to sweat so much at the beach on Saturday that I could feel my infusion set falling out.  I tested and I was about 110 and I knew I wouldn’t be more than an hour or so longer at the beach without going to the room, so I decided to just take the site out. 

Well we decided to go to the pool after that and relax and read a little bit, but my blood sugar did not go crazy at all.  Once I finally went back to the room and tested again it was 185.  So I put another site in and it was off to Hooters to watch the Michigan St. game.

Now, I’m going to speak briefly about how great that game was before I talk about last night’s game.  Even though last night was a near massacre, it still feels good to have a team go to the National Championship when nobody thought that they could do it.  I had all the confidence in the world in them (that’s what happens when you watch every single one of their games), so I knew how well they could play.

After getting home from all that beach and fun on Sunday, it was time for another Panthers game, a big game in fact against the Penguins from that other sports city in Pennsylvania (I’m originally from Philly, so that’s why I mention it like that).  My blood sugar went a little low during the game, mainly because I wanted to body check the kid behind me!  It was great watching their best player, Sid the Kid (Sidney Crosby) get beat up by one of our players.  Tonight is another huge game againstthe Philadelphia Flyers, yes the team I liked when I was a little kid, but I grew out of hockey for about 10 years, that’s how I became a Panthers fan.

Well, about diabetes…. I received my script for my next A1C test, so I will have to schedule that sometime soon.