Yesterday I talked about the only real stress about diabetes that I get is when it comes to re-ordering my pump supplies.  Of course there is other stress involved, but I don’t allow myself to stress for very long.  Except when it comes to one major thing, football.  That is right, my Philadelphia Eagles stress me the f*ck out!  This year is going to be even more stressful because of all the off-season acquisitions that we received.  I am not going to speak too much about football here, but basically every year that football starts my blood sugars get a little out of control. I go...

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...

This weekend provided me with a close call.  I knew that I had to re-order my insulin soon, but it was a little sooner than what I had expected.  I normally re-order my insulin when I see that I have about 3 vials left.  I thought that I had 4 vials of insulin, so I felt awesome that I was going to re-order it even sooner than I usually did.  Well, I only had 1 vial left.  There was 4 boxes in the bag still, however, I forgot that I took the vials out and didn’t throw the box out because I was too lazy. Last time that is going to happen. I am not worried too much anymore because...

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...

It has been such a long time since my last endo or CDE visit. I was supposed to have one on July 25th, but I was on vacation and also, I never received a call from the doctor’s office so it makes me wonder if I even had an appointment anyway? My endo is one of the top in the area so it took me 6 months to initially get in and since she hasn’t seen me in a long time, I may be back on that waiting list again. There was even scarier news that happened yesterday. I received a letter from CobraServ who is a company that my COBRA continuing coverage was being processed through...

The life of this diabetic has been crazy busy over the last few days.  This new work schedule is finely starting to feel normal, and I must admit, I actually like the schedule.  Let’s take a look at how my new day goes: 7:00 a.m. – Alarm goes off 7:15 a.m. – I actually wake up 7:15 a.m. – test blood sugar 7:20 a.m. – coffee, breakfast, shower 8:00 a.m. – hitting the road for my commute 8:45 a.m. – get to work and test sugar again to see how breakfast was holding up 11:00 a.m. – test sugar to see if correction was good 12:30 p.m. – test...