Last week I wrote about how I had decided to go back to using my CGMS. Not long after I placed my order I received an email from the medical supply company that I use that I needed to contact them about my order.

I was sort of used to this; last year and the year before I had trouble either with insurance or with the medical supply company getting the order processed. I was on a first-name basis with my customer service rep. I wouldn't even talk to anyone else since J knew exactly what I needed and what we were dealing with.

So when I got the email the other day I assumed it had something to do with the issues I had before, especially since I hadn't renewed the prescription in quite some time. I figured I'd just need to call my insurance or call the doctor's office or something pretty easy.

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I usually listen when The Universe talks and lately I've been feeling that The Universe has been whispering in my ear.

At least once a month I get a call from the medical supply company where I used to get my Dexcom sensors. Usually it's about "an order you recently made." Which I didn't because I haven't used Dex in a very long time. In fact, I can't remember the last time I used it. Pretty sure I haven't used it at all this year.

I always ignore the phone message since I didn't place an order. 

Yesterday I got an email from Dexcom about tips for caring for Dexcom during the summer. I figured The Universe was speaking to me again, but now in a louder voice.

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If you expect to hear it, then should it really be that bad?

Yes and no. 

Today's endo appointment wasn't as bad as I thought it would be in terms of feeling like I was getting raked over the coals. First, the good news: the thyroid nodule hasn't grown and I don't need to follow up on it until March 2012. Like K said when they first discovered it, I've probably had it forever. And nodules are apparently pretty common.

So the bad news: cholesterol is up, thyroid out of whack for the first time in ages, A1C up. Everything is up except my mood.

I think I generally take this kind of news in stride during the appointment. It's typically hours later when I realize what I went through. And that's when I start kicking myself and hating diabetes and thinking about how nice it would be to not have to think about all this stuff all the time.

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I didn't recognize the name or the number on the caller ID this morning and I'm usually hesitant to answer in those situations, but it was a local number so I picked it up. Interesting call to answer, it turned out. It was the patient representative for Dexcom, whom I haven't spoken to in likely nearly a year.

She was calling to see how things were going with Dex.

"Well, I can't afford the sensors anymore, so I'm not using it," I told her.

"Have you checked with your insurance to see if they cover it or is it a co-pay issue?" Jackie asked.

"It's a co-pay issue," I said.

"Oh that's too bad. Because I know you really got a lot of use out of it when you were wearing it."

"Yeah, I did."

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I used the blue and white checkered fabric that was left over from No. 3's Dorothy Halloween costume. I had just needed a small pouch that I could hang from the hook where I hang my towel next to the shower. I needed a place to put my Dexcom 7 Plus receiver while I was in the shower since the leather case that came with it didn't stay hooked to the shower curtain as well as the Dexcom 7's case.

It's been months -- I can't really remember how many -- since I stopped using Dex. The pouch still hangs from the hook in the bathroom, buried beneath my towels, and Dex lies lonely in the top drawer of my bed-side table along with emergency Sweetarts, juice boxes and grape glucose tabs.

I miss it. And I don't. I think I don't miss it more than I do.

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To me, it is equal parts hilarious, disturbing and normal that I can and do get excited about new diabetes tools. I waited on pins and needles for Dexcom to show up a year ago. And now I'm nearly beside myself that Dexcom Plus has shown up!

I upgraded last week (and thanks to my flexible spending account pre-loaded debit card had absolutely no trouble spending my deductible in the second week of January) and waited fairly patiently for FedEx. I even purposefully didn't insert a new sensor after taking out the last one at my ortho's office last week (x-rays) hoping that I'd have the new contraption in my hands before the end of the week. (No such luck, though.)

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