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I have many routines each day.
I check my BG as soon as I wake up. I make sure I always weigh myself before the shower (you know for that EXACT body weight). I listen to NPR on my way into work. I am a total creature of habit.
One habit I have, or routine, is identifying myself. I do this every morning and it is always a choice I make. Every time I make this choice, I am reminded of why I have made it and what it means to me. (READ MORE)

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It's unusual for me to have nightmares — especially nightmares about flying. Mine are usually about family relationships gone completely awry. But facing a World Diabetes Day on which I am working at a place whose uniform does not allow even a touch of blue, having given Nick Jonas my last World Diabetes Day pin (and not having had the money to replenish my stash), and having failed to have the presence of mind to do the Big Blue Test at least once (even though I am bicycling to and from work at least half the time), I feel a bit like a diabetes failure. (READ MORE)

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In my last post, I mentioned that I would be wearing some Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGMS) and deciding if any were right for me. 

 

I tried both the DexCom and the Navigator.  My decision was this: there is simply no way a separate device is going to work for me.  This was proven by the HOURS worth of dead zones - where I'd accidentally left the device behind.  Further evidence, the fact that I regularly leave my cellphone behind when I leave my house in the morning - and that since childhood I've been known as someone who "would lose their head if it weren't tied on."  Really, I think I'd lose my pump if that weren't tied on!  

 

So, I am starting the process of trying to get a Minimed Real-Time System.  I've got new insurance with my new job- so the pump part shouldn't be too great a struggle.  But the CGM to go along with it is a different story. 

 

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As I laid in bed last night unable to sleep from all that's on my mind, I began thinking about Japan and the turmoil it's currently facing. I'd heard the news immediately after waking up yesterday. At first, very little information seemed to be leaking down the chain. Then the reports began about the aftershocks. Then other reports about entire ships with hundreds of people being overtaken. Then the 23 to 30 foot tsunami that blasted the coastline.

 

I listened to the information with a heavy heart. As the good news about Hawaii came in, I rejoiced. But as the death toll rose for Japan, my heart broke a little more each time. I prayed for these people. I cried for these people. And I thought about what I could do to help. I thought about going with the Red Cross in relief efforts, but then I remembered all my responsibilities here.

 

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Call me a glutton for punishment, but I like to buy my shoes for their cute factor rather than their comfort. I have way too many pairs of shoes and boots to count. By majority, they are high heels, trendy, and semi-insane.

 

Usually, my feet don't really give me issues. I've heard and read plenty of things about how diabetics really have to watch for foot problems. I'm well aware that my feet do need a little extra care and attention.

 

But that doesn't usually stop me from wearing four inch heels or strappy sandals with absolutely no support. Because usually, nothing happens. I get a blister every now and then but they heal and I get over it. Who doesn't get blisters in four inch heels?

 

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Thursday, I started with the concept that the standard directions for taking a medication may sometimes cause a person to respond poorly to its intended therapeutic effects, and used that theme to segue into last Sunday's ride to North Brunswick. One of the biggest issues for me in planning a route to the Brunswicks has been that of crossing the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Crossing the canal (more of a river) with anything other than a motor vehicle is a bit tricky -- most of the crossings are either limited-access highways or bridges without any accommodation for cyclists, pedestrians, or non-motorized traffic.

 

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Here are the six things I'd like people to know about diabetes. 

 

 

1) Yes, I know I'm not fat. When I tell you I have diabetes, I hope your first reaction won't be "But you're not that fat."  Fat does not equal diabetic. Diabetic does not equal fat.  I am already sensitive about my weight, the automatic association with diabetes increases that sensitivity. 

 

2) You don't not need to monitor my food, I will do that myself.   Please don't ask if I should be eating what I'm eating.  I am an adult.  Diabetes has no impact on my ability to make choices and handle the consequences of those choices.  And please, if I tell you yes I can have it, don't say something like "well, whatever you think is best" and then relate a story about how someone you know lost their eyes, their legs, or their kidneys because they ate brownies. 

 

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With a new job comes a lot of new policies, procedures, and information. Benefits not withstanding. For instance, I get quite a few vacation, sick, and personal days with my job. I also get compensation time and some other odds and ends. But the big one for me is health insurance.

 

Right now, I'm covered on my parent's plan through Cigna. I previously had Blue Cross Blue Shield and absolutely loved it. They were great about paying for things (except for that one tricky situation back in 2007) and the copays were reasonable. Earlier this year, we changed to Cigna though. And everything went through the roof. My recent prescriptions cost me $364 for a 3 month supply of glucagon, Humalog, Lantus, and Metformin. It's outrageous to me that my prescription costs went up by roughly $150. Not to mention how much my doctor's visits copays have increased.

 

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For months now I have been waiting to do this. I had only to get my veins into a lab and have my A1C taken so my experiment could be put into motion. I had my end of the supplies ordered up and the rest was up to the dueling laboratories of, BIOSAFE and my local medical facility.
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One of the issues that crops up with the Mulligan's Stew of insurance benefits that come courtesy of our employers and the States in which we live is the order and manner in which those benefits are applied to the charges incurred by our use of the services covered in those plans. In insurance-company parlance, this is called "Coordination of Care". Back in the days of traditional indemnity plans, medical insurance didn't kick in until after one met an annual deductible, and even then, it was split into two separate policies: normal medical (aka "Blue Cross/Blue Shield") and "Major Medical" (single-incident costs of, in today's money, probably $4000 or more). (READ MORE)

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