As I talked about in yesterday’s post I had a lot go on within a few days and there was so much to blog about, but as you know from reading my blog, I don’t like writing long blog posts, so I’ve decided to break it up into several of them.  Today’s post I want to talk about Diabetes First Responders.  I do not mean in the sense of an emergency or medical team, but in the DOC. For example, the other night when I first tweeted about my Medtronic insulin pump issue, the first responder that night was Jen, @jenloves2travel.  It was then followed up by Stacey,...

This has been an incredible 24 hours.  Well, maybe a little more than 24 hours.  Last night at dinner my Medtronic pump starting making that bad beeping noise (any Medtronic user knows the difference between a normal beep, and those bad news beeps).  I thought maybe I hit a button or something.  Nope, “Button Error”. I felt like Michael Bolton in Office Space (PC load letter, F*ck does that mean?”) I was freaking out.  I normally don’t freak out about things, but last night this scared the shit out of me.  I didn’t know what I was going to do, I have no...

Yesterday was combined with some good blood sugars and some not so good ones, but in the overall game of diabetes, I was happy with them, not satisfied, but happy.  In the middle of the night I could just tell that my blood sugar was high so I blind bolused and guestimated that my blood sugar was about 350-400, I took the recommended amount of insulin from the pump.  When I woke up in the morning, my blood sugar was about 125, so I guessed right and my morning blood sugar was awesome.  For breakfast I had 3 mini pancakes and a few sausage patties.  When I tested before lunch, I had gone...

Some of you may know from yesterday that I got into a car accident.  Let’s start out first, that I am ok and I, nor the other person involved in the accident were injured, that is always the most important part whenever anybody is involved in a crash.  Long story short, the guy was at a stop sign and he tried to cut across 6 lanes of traffic, except I just so happened to be driving through the second lane and he hit the back door of my car.  There was no spinning out cutting into the other lane, luckily.  The long part was after I called 911 and was waiting for the police to come to...

So we all know what the diabetes police are and we have all had our experiences with the diabetes police.  I had an experience last week with some of my co-workers when talking about what I just ate for lunch.  It’s funny because it was on Thursday, the day after dsma last week when we were discussing what and how we react to these circumstances.  We were walking back from lunch and I said that I was stuffed and the one co-worker asked what I ate and I said that I just ate a bunch of pasta, and helaughed and said, you must be the worst diabetic ever.  He was joking and mentioning...