Life of a Diabetic - A Diabetes Blog

Blog Has Moved, Update Your Blogroll

Chris S — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:26:46 +0000

Please remember that my blog has moved and has been relocated. If you are still coming here to get my posts, or if you have a blog roll, please update it with

http://thelifeofadiabetic.com

Blog URL Has Changed To http://thelifeofadiabetic.com/

Chris S — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:57:29 +0000

New Blog URL is http://thelifeofadiabetic.com/

Please update now, this blog will be de-active at the end of September.

Insurance Companies

Chris S — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:38:02 +0000

Find out why I hate insurance companies, and I’m sure the same reasons you do.

My new blog is located at http://thelifeofadiabetic.com/

New Website Is Up and Running

Chris S — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:32:06 +0000

Well, as promised, I am launching the new blog on September 1. There are some obvious changes that need to be done to the blog, so please bare with me as I make them. IF you see things that you don’t like, let me know right away.

If you do have me added to any subscriptions or blogrolls, etc. please make the appropriate changes so you are not directed to this blog which will be pretty much dead by the end of the month.

The new url is:

http://thelifeofadiabetic.com/

I hope you all enjoy the new look. Please give feedback!

No Time Anymore to Do Anything

Chris S — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:25:15 +0000

Haven’t been posting a lot lately for multiple reasons. For one, I have been extremely busy at work during the day and don’t have an opportunity to post anymore during the day, so I have to try and make time in the morning around 6-7 a.m. so it’s been tough. At night I have been exercising and coaching football, so it doesn’t leave as much time during night as well. Finally, I have been working on the new blog, which is almost finished. I’ve also been spending A LOT of time reading the new health care bill and all the gossip going around about it.

That will be the featured posts on my new blog. For those of you that actually do read my blog, please bare with me over the next week while I try to re-manage my time and make time for everything during the day. Help me out a little bit however.

What time do you all usually read others blogs? What time do you usually post yours? Comment with your @Twitter accounts, I would love to follow you all. New contact information is below:

Twitter: @lifeofadiabetic

E-mail: Chris.Stocker@thelifeofadiabetic.com

Have a great day everybody!

Got to Bed Early, Woke Up Early

Chris S — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:35:39 +0000

Last night I was able to get to bed at a better time. My girlfriend, Amanda, had fallen asleep around 8:30 almost because she was exhausted. There’s no way that I can go to bed that early or I would be up at like 1 or 2 a.m. and not be able to go back to bed. I decided to just get on the laptop and start knocking out some more of the design for the new blog. It will definitely be ready to go for the scheduled September 1 launch. I started to watch last week’s episode of Real World because I didn’t see it while I was home. Then the new episode started so I watched half of it until I decided to just try to fall asleep, which I didn’t do until about 11:30-ish which is pretty good for me.

I woke up at 6:30 this morning and I’m still having some coffee as I speak now, only my second cup, I may go for a third before I’m done with this post. I have a long day ahead of me with work and then football practice, and then Big Brother, which reminds me, I better go record it right now. Well I just came across the Wall Street Journal, so now that is going to cut my post short. Split Bill for Health Plan. Time to hit the showers and off to work.

Have a great day everybody.

Oh yea, if you live in the south Florida area, please e-mail me. I’m looking to start a meet up and do something fun local things. chris.stocker at thelifeofadiabetic.com

Blood Sugars, Blood Sugars, Blood Sugars

Chris S — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:16:48 +0000

Blood sugars, blood sugars, blood sugars. This is all I am asked about all the time. It is very typical for a question to come up in the morning as, lets say “Good morning, how’s your sugar?” Or “Hey, have your sugars been good?” To me, it doesn’t affect me, I’m actually glad that people ask and care and are aware of diabetes and what it is and what people need to do in order to manage it. Do any of you get mad or annoyed when people constantly ask you questions about your blood sugars?

Anyway, off to another subject. I haven’t been getting as much sleep lately because I have been up all damn night working on the new website. I will be so damn excited when it is finally over. My blood sugars have actually been better in the morning though. Maybe because since I am up later I am testing and able to manage them at 2 a.m. compared to when I am sleeping and I am not able to manage them.

Well my spaghettie is a little past done I think, so I better go eat my dinner

Have a great night ya’ll.

Done With Vacation, So Sad

Chris S — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:39:10 +0000

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.

CGM Worked Better, New Site Almost Ready

Chris S — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:17:29 +0000

I don’t think that I have ever posted this late at night, especially on a Friday, but I attempted to post something earlier today and my connection was all messed up. So, after the other day when I said my CGM was really pissing me it started to work a little better. The sensor life ended tonight so I took it off. My blood sugars have been running over 200 pretty much all day today, but it is somewhat expected with being home. They have came down now a little over the past few hours because I haven’t eaten anything. I won’t eat anything again until they go below 200.

The new website for my blog should be ready to go before the month is over. I want it to look somewhat pretty at least before I send everybody to it. While I am designing it and making changes, have there been things in this current blog that you have liked, or disliked for that matter? I know a lot of people don’t like the idea of monetizing their blogs, however, whatever funds are collected are donated towards research and a cure for diabetes, so I don’t really understand the commotion.

Well I am going to get back working on the new site. For any of you that have me listed on your blogroll, please remember to update the URL.

Have a great weekend everyone.

CGM Realling Pissing Me Off!

Chris S — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:53:06 +0000

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!