Caller ID said "Nevada." I don't know anyone in Nevada. Last time my caller ID indicated a state in which I don't know anyone, I took a chance and it was a sales call. A flippin' sales call on my cell phone. But, I answered Nevada anyway. Good thing I did because it was the Dexcom rep for my area returning my call. (This poor guy is in Las Vegas and his territory covers Vegas, Phoenix and north to Montana or some other "M" state.)
He asked me about my situation and why I wanted to try a CGMS. I told him I had been a pumper since January and that I had tried the MiniMed CGMS earlier this year and liked it but couldn't get my insurance to cover it and decided to give up after continued denials. I told him about my hypo- and hyper-unawareness and that I wanted something that will clue me in to where I am between tests.
He went on to discount the other models on the market and to give me all the sales points for Dexcom. All I could think was that *I* called him and that he really didn't need to sell to me since I was the one who reached out to him. But I digress.
When I told him I wanted to take the Dexcom for a test drive he let me know they don't actually do that (which I'm pretty sure is crap). I was very disappointed. He asked about insurance and I told him that my benefits kick in Sept. 1 and which insurance company I will have. He was sure that that company would cover it. Well, I told him, I was almost assured that my former insurance company would cover it, too, and I was denied several times.
It's a new technology, he told me, and we knew it would take a couple years to get insurance companies on board. He started to list the companies that are now starting to approve the CGMS. My former insurance company was on the list. I guess I just tried to get it approved too soon, I said.
So we had several options for trying out the Dexcom, the best of which was actually to wait until September when my benefits kick in. Y'all know I'm not a very patient person. You know that I'm going to obsess over this for the next six weeks. I guess this time will give me something to look forward to, a benchmark of sorts.
