As some of you may know, I left the “corporate” job that I had at an agency to go back to running my own business full time.  I had awesome, excellent insurance.  Probably the best insurance that I’ve ever had, and from the insurance that I hear family and friends have, better than all of those.  Well, when I left my job, since I’m not married, I had to opt in for the COBRA insurance coverage.  This would be more expensive because I would be responsible for the entire premium, as opposed to when I was only paying 3% because my previous employer was paying nearly...

Today is February 1, 2012.  Not only is today about flipping over those calendars to the next month and doing a drumroll before seeing what the next picture or phrase or which cheerleader is going to be on the next month (or am I the only one that does that?).  Today is a very serious day for me.  A day of change. As some of you may know, I own my own business, CSI Marketing Solutions, LLC.  Also, as some of you may know, I have been working at an agency for about 18 months.  This digital agency is voted best place to work just about every year and received hundreds of other awards a...

When I was first diagnosed with diabetes back in April of 2004, I was on MDI using a Humalog insulin pen and syringes to take Lantus at night.  I was doing fine with this, and was actually eating healthy at that time and staying at a good weight, but I decided that I wanted to try out an insulin pump, it just sounded so much easier.  I am glad that I made that decision 5 years ago.  There are definitely things that I don’t like, especially the fact that I now eat anything I want, whenever I want because it is just a few pushes of buttons on the pump.  At the time, I wasn’t...

I have documented my testing strip sagas throughout the years here on this blog. (Sidenote: still can’t believe that I am saying years about the blog).  I was using One Touch Ultra when I first started blogging, but then switched over to Freestyle Lite for a couple of years because I just liked the meter better.  Just earlier this year, my insurance company decided that my Freestyle Lite strips would be $150 for a 90 day supply and One Touch strips would still be only $50.  So I did what was in my best interest and switched back to the One Touch strips.  The only One Touch meter...

It is now the Fall time which means that the end of the year is right around the corner, and it will be here before we know it.  This means a lot of things.  Snow in the northeast, traveling home for the holidays, hopefully some cold weather in south Florida, but more importantly, a final re-order of supplies.  By now, all of my deductibles have been covered, so now I can get one last 90 day supply towards the end of December right before the beginning of the year and before the deductibles reset.  I love this time of the year.  It is like my one and only chance to stick it to the...

There are a lot of things that I don’t like about diabetes, but none of them really stress me out.  The only thing that stresses me out every single time is re-ordering pump supplies.  It is also the most rewarding thing to me when I open up that fresh new box from UPS and open up all the goodies.  Why is this the most stressful?  Because I re-ordered them in February, when my deductible was nice and fresh, so I owe the entire deductible when I order them.  It is now August and of course I have not paid off that deductible yet.  But guess what?  I can’t re-order these...