Last night, me and the family went out for a Mexican dinner. There is a little place not too far from our house that I like to go to. Not quite a restaurant but not really fast food.
 

Anyhow, I ordered what I always have and bolused accordingly. As of late I have started using the Dual Wave option on my pump to get a percentage of my bolus immediately and the rest over time.

For this particular meal I dialed in the carbs, with 30% now and the rest over the next 30 minutes. As we sat down at the table I saw a large crowd of people enter the place.

With all those orders it seemed our order took forever to come out. I was not in a hurry, didn’t feel low but I did need to refill me drink before the food showed up!
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Last October, I totally ditched an appointment with my endo.

Why? I didn’t want to face the music. I didn’t want to hear about what I have not done right and I just did not want to see my A1C.

My last A1C was from last July and it was an 8.9%. Not good at all. I was upset about it but in the end I knew it made sense. I was not on top of things.

And this year was no different. I just kept gaining weight, snacking, and my BG was high a lot of the time. So when the time for the appointment came I wrote a post here about wanting to ditch and how I needed to face the music.

I still ditched it. (READ MORE)

Since I have started using the Continuous Glucose Monitor with my Minimed pump I have found the numbers and graphs fascinating.

Every few days I upload the info on their website and look at trends, how certain meals affect my blood glucose level, and how the insulin I take works. It is very cool stuff. (READ MORE)

Many of my friends and colleagues have been shocked and saddened by the recent deaths of actor Farrah Fawcett and musician Michael Jackson. Fawcett's struggle was against a relatively rare form of cancer -- a sadly painful decline, but straightforward in cause and effect. At this writing, the cause of Jackson's death is being reported as "cardiac arrest". Much like Type 2 diabetes, the clinical event can have a number of underlying causes; like Type 1, it can have a number of lead-in events. (READ MORE)

The recession has finally caught up to my employer, who has painstakingly tried to shield us from it as much as possible. However, next month may bring a restructuring that may include layoffs. No one knows yet who may or may not be on the chopping block.
 

I’ve been unemployed before and it sucks. And I don’t want to do it again. But then, I didn’t have diabetes. Then, I didn’t rely on an insulin pump to stay healthy. Now, I think being unemployed would be a much worse situation.
 

When I heard the news about what may happen next month my first thoughts were about how we would continue to pay the two mortgages (no, the house in Missouri hasn’t sold yet!), buy groceries and continue to provide the basics for our family without losing our minds. The thoughts of how I would continue to pay for my health care needs were delayed, strangely.
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Three topics that come up on any diabetes blog or forum, as certain as death and taxes, are blood glucose levels, hemoglobin A1c levels, and guilt. The usual dialog goes like this:

"No matter what I do, I can't get my blood glucose levels to stay within 'normal' non-diabetic levels. This is going to really screw up my A1c, which means more medications, getting yelled at by my doctor and my spouse and my family, not being safe to get pregnant, and all the 'Diabetes Police' coming down on me. If only I had avoided that one jelly donut three weeks ago...!"

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