If you follow The Life of a Diabetic on Twitter, then this post is not going to sound like much of a surprise to most of you. My blood sugars have been crazy over the past 2 months, even 3. I haven’t seen my endocrinologist since October, which I was seeing her every month for [...]
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Not having insurance for some time really sucks. Sorry to be so blunt about it, but it does. For those of you in that boat, you know what I mean. I was insured the entire time I was diabetic, so I had no clue how it would actually feel. I could only imagine, but now [...] Last night I started to think about some things, usually not good when I do this kind of stuff. Diabetes makes me think a lot. Let me exaplain the background of the story first and why it came about. Over the last, I’d say 2-3 weeks I have fell in love with this new bbq [...] Today I have decided to wear my sensor for the first time in almost two months. I had it charging all night long because it wasn’t even connected to the charger during that 2 months. I am not even sure if the sensors are still good because I know that they have short expiration date. [...] I was diagnosed in April of 2004, that’s almost 6 years ago. Diabetes has changed me in so many ways, even though I always say that I am not going to let this disease affect me and control me. Well in reality it has controlled me and affected me, but in positive ways. Of course [...] Today it is diabetes inventory day. How often do you do this? I usually do it once every 3 or 4 months just to see how much I have and how much I will need to re-order. Typically, I have a lot more infusion sets than I do reservoirs because I don’t change my site [...] In a post I did earlier in the week, I explained that I was working a lot and not really sleeping at all. Well, along with that I have been working right through exercise time as well. My exercise has consisted of throwing footballs and doing a little jogging at football practice when I am [...] Friday brought me another doctors visit. Let’s go through the checklist for the visit. Insurance card, ID, meter, pump, clean socks, clean feet, food log, reasons for why I didn’t wear my cgm all month long. Ok I have everything I need so now I can go to the visit, let’s check my sugar one more tome [...] |
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