It finally came today, as prescribed -- but probably I should count the pills... I'll take it on faith though.
I'm not sure which end had the problems -- it's funny but any script my endo writes, turns out fine, sometimes it takes two tries for the primary care, but this one took quite a few tries. But it got done.
Diabetes In Control Newsletter - Chronically High Blood Sugar Linked To Risk Of Cognitive Impairment
A four-year study of elderly women has found that chronically elevated blood sugar is associated with an increased risk of developing either mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia.
Something dawned on me tonight when I was writing an email. I don't keep this in the front of my mind, but it IS on the back of my mind.
I'm 46. I try not to think about that very often.
When my father was 42, he was diagnosed with diabetes. When he was 46, he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, told to put his affairs in order, put on oxygen, told not to be exposed to any illness, and sent home to die.
The good news, it took two more years for it to kill him.
Thus, I'm a bit paranoid.
I think that is a much better attitude than living with the hope that there was be a cure in 5 years. In fact, I'm sick to death of hearing people repeating that little information. What does that do for anyone? I think a lot of them don't take as good care of themselves as they should, expecting that cure.
There is not going to be a cure for my kind of diabetes in 5 years, and even if there were, if I don't take extremely good care of myself, I'm going to be dead in less than those 5 years.
I also find my own doctor's concillartory message -- there will be inhaled insulin in 5 years. Yeah, right, meal time insulin and the whole process is a pain in the rear.
So I'm on a pump, I test empteen times a day, and I keep my blood sugar as normal as possible. Not to live -- but to keep from dying.
There have been good side effects from that -- one of my students asked me why I hadn't given the diabetes speech this year -- well, I haven't had a treatable hypoglycemic event in a year, and the last time was when we played Symlin games. I often eat a bit of sugar to keep from getting there, but haven't gotten there.
And at lunch, they were trying to get me to eat some homemade ice cream -- they were nice about it -- and not pushy, but I made the choice not to. Then made the statement, did you realize that my blood sugar hasn't been high even to make me bitchy in years -- and my department chair said "and thank god for that!". I didn't realize it was that bad, and repeated to the same student who asked about the diabetes speech -- and he AGREED!
Yes, Type 1s are taking care of themselves to keep living -- but remember quite a few of us Type 2s are just trying to keep from dying.
I feel the need to add a bit more to this -- when I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, I wasn't promised a cure. I was told to use my CPAP machine every night or I'd die. Of course, getting woken up by an upset technician during the diagnosis helped to. And my doctor DID mention that he sent someone for sleep apnea surgery, but he wasn't going to do that anymore, because the patient died. Fatalist? Maybe, but you know what, I put that CPAP machine on every single night. And I also check my blood sugar empteen times a day, and strive for tight control. I haven't had an AIC higher than 7.0 since I started this.
And there is at least one Type 2 diabetic who believes that oral medications are for the birds and that insulin is the only way to fly.
It's been interesting. First of all, right now the dealership I am working with claims they don't have the 2007 Freestyle I want. Also the guy I was working with forgot he had today off. Weird.
I tried a PT Cruiser but all three cages will fit, BUT I can't get anything else in it.
One of the things I track with my insulin spreadsheet is my correction factor. Also known in the diabetes world as the rule of 1800. Amazing on how well that works. The rule of 1500 doesn't always work for me, but that's another blog post.
Anyway, I noticed this morning that I was approaching 43. My pump is programmed for a correction factor of 42. It's currently an hour and some odd minutes before lunch and I am hungry! Did a check and I'm just a tad over 100.
Time to break out one of the chocolate candy sticks. I love them. Less than 100 calories, about 10 grams of carb, and all the taste of a real chocolate bar.
I also need to remember to buy more.
Means the TDD is still going down.
Plus I think I'm losing weight. I'm not tracking it, but I am at the lowest I've been in a while.
And hey, I'm not gaining like I was when they first gave me back my classes!
First managed to get the strength portion of today done, but had to reschedule the cardio. I'm going to have to watch that.
Second, car dealers, don't try to make someone think they made an appointment when they didn't, it 's just annoying.
TDD is still slowly dropping -- mainly because I have been making a smart change, which is to drop my temp basal to 30% two hours before a dog class for the two hours of the class. Worked for agility and worked for tonight's obedience classes.
We're getting closer to our first conformation show -- I haven't said much about it here or the Macy's blog, but it's Saturday and Sunday morning at 8:00 am (argh!) but at least it will be over fast.
It's been a wild few days. Monday night the fan inside my car squealed. When I turned it off, did class, and got back in the car it started making a horrible noise. It wouldn't have been too bad, except that it was an hour to drive home.
As I was driving it dawned on me that I was paying a $500 car payment every month for the past 6 months. Well, that sucks when you are driving a 6 year old car. I'd much rather do that for a new one.
Got home and husband was playing internet poker and was acting ugly about talking about it. We've been married for 20 years and every fight we've had was related to cars. Or buying cars.
So I went to school Tuesday morning and called the local car dealer to school (Troy Aikman Ford), and asked if I could drop it over during my planning period. They said sure. They diagnosed it, but couldn't repair it then but let me have it back.
In the meantime, I got from work and Rich had printed out a really nice thing comparing several small trucks. We decided to go look at an HHR. It was TOO small. They also brought out an Equinox which also TOO small.
So I got my truck back today during my planning period again, and I stopped and talked to the internet sales manager and I looked at a Ford Freestyle. I am pretty convinced that's the car I want. I may have to wait until Ford has the right incentive though, unless they can find me a 2006.
However, I did get yesterday's workout in.
I've seen this on several sources -- and Amylin and FDA -- please give us a pen! I hate dealing with the vial and needles.
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Cardio and strength. Still very short sessions but just about what my knee can take.
I woke up in the middle of the night with it stiff and aching. Of course that was after showing Marcie in Rally twice, doing conformation class with Macy AND working out.