Another insulin pump on the market?
Globes [online] is reporting that NiliMEDIX, a manufacturer of disposable insulin pumps from Israel, has filed a 510k fast-track application for FDA approval to market its devices in the US.
Source: NiliMEDIX Insulin Pumps - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com
Choice is always good.
My doctor's office says they faxed their paperwork on Monday.
I'm getting frustrated. Haven't heard at all from them today -- not even a 'no we haven't gotten your doctor's paperwork' yet.
I know I'm not patient, but this is getting down right silly. They all definately treat this as a very low priority part time job.
My primary care physician and I are fed up with the pharmacy service (Medco), so he's sending me to a gastroenterologist tomorrow.
My heartburn is actually worse before meals these days. I still wake up sometimes at night. I also have trouble with it after some meals.
I did best on Propulsid, but of course that is not an option.
I was looking for Bowflexes on Craigslist and found a Weider Max. Got a hold of the guy this afternoon and got him to agree to bring it to the house for me. I snagged it for $120 -- he wanted $110 and I gave him an extra $10 for bringing it over.
Sports Authority had one on clearance for $350 so I think I got myself a good deal. It works out well in the room, though things are a bit crowded. It folds out of the way of the murphy bed fine, will have to move the treadmill out of the way, but it works.
For those who don't know, I have a study downstairs (i'm in there typing now), that is my folding room. It has a cabinet that has a murphy bed built in. I can fold it down for guests. My treadmill folds up and out of the way, and now so does the weight machine. I have an extra weight bench now that I ought to put up for sell on Craigslist.
I've been real lucky with internet purchases, ever since I bought a hard drive after I first got married. In fact, I found all three dogs on the internet!
Still waiting on paper work for fitness4diabetics. Actually I haven't heard from them since Thursday.
Right now, my paperwork is hung up somewhere between my doctor's office and fitness4diabetics. Last I heard it was still on my doctor's desk on Thursday.
Working out is going well, though I did miss a strength workout on Thursday. I was able to shuffle the aerobics to Friday, though I really don't want that day as an off day. iShape has been scheduling it that way.
I was just too tired, and sadly, most of what I did was sitting at a desk that day.
I did call into the fitness4diabetics webinair on Wednesday and did enjoy it. The speaker okayed my idea of getting a bowflex, though I am still putting that off a bit.
David just wrote about his wife's death on his blood. A very lovely love story and very sad. My sympathys' David.
My wife, Catherine Lee Nord, died Tuesday morning of liver failure. It was a complication of her diabetes. She was 69. We had been married for 11 years.
Source: Diabetes - In Memoriam
I found something that REALLY helped this year. I went to bed an hour earlier. Had to take sleeping pills to do it, but it helped.
It also helped that DST started the weekend before spring break. I thought I was going to have trouble today, but it went fine.
Daylight Savings Time
Source: Sleep Disorders: Information and advice on narcolepsy and insomnia symptoms and treatments
Yeah, I'm going to spring for a new pump. It doesn't give THAT many new features, but what the heck. I do use it more than anything else. I think I'll change colors though. Blue or Silver?
The description is out on their website. It looks like the basal/etc dosing is a bit more flexible.
Also more memory and records the carbs, etc. which will make logging a bit easier.
So I'm calling tomorrow and getting on the list.
Or maybe, just remembering to code your meter whenever you open a new vial of test strips. Seriously. Especially since the Bayer meters are at a higher copay than the meters I use.
Blood glucose values that the 116 study participants got from their miscoded meters showed an average error ranging from plus 29 percent to minus 37 percent. “The autocoded meters used in this study gave BG values that results in the lowest risk of insulin dose error,” was to me the most significant result of the study. I know that if I used insulin, I wouldn’t hesitate for a moment before switching to one of these new meters.
Source: Diabetes - Misdosing Insulin