Living with Diabetes and Lapband

As you can tell from my lack of posting, life is busy and diabetes keeps getting shoved to the end of the list.  I do see my endo in a few weeks.  I'm predicting an A1C over 8.0

Lots of days I'm lucky if I get around to testing my blood sugar.  Somedays I don't get around to eating breakfast.

I've also been majorly stressed out over my job and its future.  We had a RIF and they eliminated 300 positions. 

Oddly enough, my pump warranty expires in February and I occasionally think about it.  I'll probably get a Ping.  I probably will use my 3 sensors, two will expire in November, and I'm not sure when the third one does.  I probably won't get any more sensors.  Sadly, the worse your blood sugar, the worse the sensors work.

I've even tossed around the idea of seeing if I can switch to Byetta and drop insulin and Symlin entirely. 

Not doing well, am I?

The good news, is that periodically try to fix the problem.  Today I updated my spreadsheet and recalculated my bolus amounts.

The blog at http://www.kweaver.org/cs has more detail about it.  Diabetes and my personal life have gone to the back burner, but I decided last Friday I am taking control of my life.  Well, hopefully not completely taking control, that would probably mean losing my job tomorrow.

Yes, a somewhat real possibility, my school district is RIFing a large group of people.  Fortunately not as many as they originally expected, as a lot took the voluntary RIF.  Three people in my building, include the home ec teacher across the hall.  She took the RIF rather than maternity leave. (Yes, I know it isn't called home ec anymore, but I still call the custodians, janitors.

So back to the diabetes news.  I was quoted in the New York times this weekend:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/business/12novel.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

I've been using that device for several weeks now, I got it the same day that the Dexcom upgrade came.  It's interesting.  Also difficult to deal with -- my limit is two medical devices at a time, I've found.

I've also quit working with the Fit4Diabetes folks -- they are great, and really worth it, but I'm ready to manage the exercise thing by myself.    That's something that has been at the forefront of the back burner stuff.