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My relationship has changed, and I'm not happy. Over the past three weeks, I've lost so much trust in what I'm being told that I'm looking at "playing the field" again.

 

The relationship I'm talking about is the one with my glucometer.

 

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There has been much heat in the diabetes online community concerning the new Medicaid/Medicare restrictions on paying for blood glucose testing supplies for people with diabetes, including the belief that these limitations will quickly replace current private-insurance coverage policies. We're seeing some of those repercussions here as The Other Half has just been informed that instead of covering testing supplies ad libitum (as many as his doctor writes for, for whichever brand she writes for), they will only cover OneTouch or Accu-Chek strips, to a maximum of 51 strips per month for people with diabetes who do not require injectable insulin, and 204 strips per month for those who do require it. (READ MORE)

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4:30 AM. Up at what seems like an ungodly hour, usual for this sort of event. What's making it harder than normal is the congestion dripping from my nasal passages into my throat that kept me tossing and turning through the all-too-short sleep period that happens when your Other Half first gets home from his work shift at midnight. On top of that, I seem to have strained my left arm so that my thumb and pinky are half numb as is a stretch along the upper arm just above the elbow. My right hand is going numb as I type -- can I trust the "99" that my Freestyle Lite just read out? Considering that for some odd reason, the scale is reading four pounds more than it did just before I turned in for the night (and I've neither eaten or drunk a thing during that interval), my skepticism does not seem unfounded. (READ MORE)

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If anything can make having diabetes "fun", it's the cool toys I get to play with. While I don't consider myself within the normal confines of geekiness, I'm one of those folk who feel lost without multiple computers and a broadband Internet connection to-hand, and the ability to capture and analyze data up the wing-wah. (Whether or not I actually use that ability, or use it consistently, is another story.)

 

Managing diabetes falls right into the obsessions of a data wonk.

 

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The vibration of my cell phone stirred me in my seat during a less than interactive physics class. Taking a look, I see it is my go-to pharmacy calling me up. This is not a surprise to me since they call to inform me I am out of refills every now and then or that it is too soon to place a refill on a script. I let it buzz away back in my pocket and waited for class to end. Working my way into the sunshine of the outside walkway, I dialed in to listen to the pharmacy’s voicemail. This was not the message I was expecting.

 

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It's no secret that several of us who blog here at dLife are active in a number of diabetes-oriented online forums and social networks -- what we refer to as "the Diabetes Online Community" or "the DOC" -- and that in the process, we've learned which people, which groups, and which venues are doing what in terms of offering emotional support, medical and lifestyle advice, places to gripe and complain, and ways to use our various talents to make living with diabetes easier (or less difficult, depending on your point of view) for ourselves and others to manage.

 

I must also mention here that I have been, for the most part, a satisfied user of Freestyle glucose meters since I adopted the Therasense Freestyle several months after my initial diagnosis, upgrading to the Freestyle Flash almost as soon as it came out, and eventually to the Freestyle Lite (which I currently use).

 

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Blah, blah, blah, here she goes again, pissing and moaning about logging.

Back when the year was shiny and new, as opposed to snow-covered and grubby (and enough with the snow already, ok? I'm SICK of it. Sick.) I resolved to be more diligent about logging Olivia's blood sugars. And for a few weeks I was. And then I forgot for a couple of days. And then it was Thursday and I thought, well, I'll just start over on Monday. And I forgot again.

I've logged in fits and starts over the last 2 months, but mostly, I haven't logged at all. And now she has an endo appointment tomorrow and I'm not going to have that much information to give her and I'm pissed at myself.

I just don't know how to make myself log. I forget. And if I'm forgetting to log, how am I supposed to teach Olivia? I'm not setting a good example at all and they always tell you (who are they anyway?) that you should lead by example when it comes to your kids.
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Today is the 6th Annual D-Blog Day and in some ways, I'm stymied by the topic: Gina has proposed we all do a 12" x 12" scrapbook page. Growing up, a scrapbook was a shoelace-tied book of heavy vellum-colored Manilla paper to which one pasted telegrams, newspaper clippings, greeting cards, and the like. In theory, one scrapbook could last a lifetime; in reality, the pages started falling out about five years in, and we always had to be careful not to lose either the pages or the stuff glued on to them. My mother's scrapbook has telegrams of congratulations from relatives who couldn't make her wedding and a guest-card with the lyrics to "Bei Mir Bist Du Shane", telegrams of congratulations when my sister and I were born, and newspaper clippings from every time one or another of us was mentioned in the local newspaper. (READ MORE)

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I don't have a camera for my cycling helmet.

 

Unlike many cycling advocates, I don't find the need to visually log every mile in traffic, every horn honking behind me, or how the sound of a car's engine (or the halo of its headlights) warns me of its approach more accurately than the rear-view mirrors that have fallen off my visors more times than I can count. On the other hand, it would be cool to be able to record the beauty of some of the local landscape, the technical details of my ride (speed, cadence, heart rate) at any given time, and for the sheer technogeekiness of it, both my glucometer and my heart rate monitor in the same frame, without having to remove the wristwatch receiver.

 

Yesterday was one of those days.

 

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For many of us, our sense of self is tied to our glucometers, our pumps, and/or our CGMs. "Sad, but true," you may say. The truth is, we tether ourselves to these devices to maintain and/or improve our lives. In addition, most jurisdictions require us to carry at all times some form of government-issued identification -- and of course, we dare not go anywhere without our health insurance cards and our cell phones.

 

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