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.)

When I walked in after work today I had actually forgotten about it, but when I spied FedEx on the table my stomach lept! Ok not really, but I was excited. I promptly took DexPlus upstairs to plug it in. Took a picture and posted to it Facebook and left the box on the bed so I would remember to look over the basics pamphlet before I went to bed.

Right before we got the kids in bed, The Mr. spotted the box and asked what it was.

"My upgrade!" I said excitedly. (Gee, honey, why aren't you as psyched about this as I am?)

"Upgrade to what?" he asked.

"My Dexcom.... er, my CGMS..."

He looked at me like I had two heads. I grabbed the receiver that was plugged in on my night stand and showed him.

"My new *this*," I said holding up DexPlus (which looks the same as the old Dex, so he knew what I was talking about).

He still doesn't share my enthusiasm. Anyway. Tomorrow I'll insert a sensor first thing (my normal routine for sensors) and will be super excited to see what happens throughout the day.