Christmas has officially come and gone... It was pretty good, lots of time spent with family, which is really what the holidays are all about! I was pretty sick the entire time, and spent Christmas eve/day with no voice! I'm starting to feel better today and hoping I'll be back to 100% by the end of the week. The dogs were so cute 'opening' their Christmas presents, and they were really good at my in-laws place for Christmas dinner as well. There were 5 dogs there all together, which was a little bit crazy, but a ton of fun! I love my hounds! Presents wise, Jamie and I really didn't go overboard this year, we have about a billion dollars on our credit card from the cruise and Las Vegas.
Diabetes wise, I had another follow up appt and my A1C is actually still 6.0!! I was really shocked at that, but pretty happy. I made a couple small tweaks to my basal rate and I'm hoping everything stays steady. I really hope I won't be pregnant over Christmas next year, it was so hard to keep everything under control with the food and the parties and the potlucks etc.
Anyways, new years eve is this weekend, I don't think Jamie and I will get up to much at all, I'm actually thinking we'll just stay in. We're old and boring now :)... Getting impatient for January, I just want something to HAPPEN. I feel like I've been planning and pushing back plans for so long, it's been a year now, and it's just hard to keep 100% on top of the diabetes and stay so motivated for so long. Really hoping things go as planned in the new year, fingers crossed!
Until next time :)
NONE
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
It's that time of the year...
Well, Christmas is coming, and as per usual I am completed unprepared. We have our tree, but haven't gotten around to decorating it yet! The rest of the inside is looking pretty completed, just not the tree yet - maybe I'll get to it tonight. Jamie finished the outside a few weeks ago, and we're getting there! Need to do a shit-ton of shopping still... Have 2 secret Santa's on Monday and have barely started shopping for Jamie! Sheesh.
The cruise was amazing, and I am very sad to be home! The weather was amazing, and I got a wonderful tan! My blood wasn't terrible, but not amazing either.
My pump had a little bit of a mental breakdown, and I am not thrilled with Animas' response when I contacted them about it. We woke up in the middle of the night to my pump beeping and vibrating frantically and it said 'no delivery, call customer support, remove battery to silence'... So I obviously didn't want to pay $12 a minute to call Animas from the ship so I pulled the battery and popped it back in. It gets almost fully rewound (because of course every time you take out the battery the animas pump needs to be fully primed)and then I got another error message. Starting to get a little nervous at this point, but the second time I tried it ended up working and I went back to bed. Everything was great until the next morning (about 30 hours later) when after breakfast, I got ANOTHER error message. Popped the battery (for the third time!!) and after another rewind it seemed to be okay, and it's been working fine since.
I called Animas when I got home, and they basically said that the first one was 'probably' was due to an occlusion. She asked if my blood sugars were high (they were on the lower end, between 3.1 and 4.5) and there was no reason why it should have been an occlusion. She said the second error was 'probably' due to pressure in the piston and that the third one was 'probably' due to another occlusion. They won't replace the pump because they are all slightly different error codes and to get a replacement you need to have the same error code 3 times in 30 days. So I'm stuck with a pump that has 'something' wrong with the hardware, but they don't know what. Ugh. Plus, I want to switch to a black pump, the paint is peeling off on the corners and I think if I had the black one, it would look better because it's black under the paint. Seriously though, THIS is the best technology we can get for $7,000? My cell phone can do 10000 times more things than this silly pump can. I guess it's got an important purpose, but it just feels like they could do better.
On another topic, Jamie and I have decided to start trying not on this next cycle (which should have started about... yesterday) but the next one, so about 6 weeks from now! I have another diabetes appt next week and it's time to get back into the swing of things, and being 100% diligent again. I'm excited to see what my A1C is now. I don't think it'll be that great, but I'm hopeful it'll still be below 6.5!
Until next time....
The cruise was amazing, and I am very sad to be home! The weather was amazing, and I got a wonderful tan! My blood wasn't terrible, but not amazing either.
My pump had a little bit of a mental breakdown, and I am not thrilled with Animas' response when I contacted them about it. We woke up in the middle of the night to my pump beeping and vibrating frantically and it said 'no delivery, call customer support, remove battery to silence'... So I obviously didn't want to pay $12 a minute to call Animas from the ship so I pulled the battery and popped it back in. It gets almost fully rewound (because of course every time you take out the battery the animas pump needs to be fully primed)and then I got another error message. Starting to get a little nervous at this point, but the second time I tried it ended up working and I went back to bed. Everything was great until the next morning (about 30 hours later) when after breakfast, I got ANOTHER error message. Popped the battery (for the third time!!) and after another rewind it seemed to be okay, and it's been working fine since.
I called Animas when I got home, and they basically said that the first one was 'probably' was due to an occlusion. She asked if my blood sugars were high (they were on the lower end, between 3.1 and 4.5) and there was no reason why it should have been an occlusion. She said the second error was 'probably' due to pressure in the piston and that the third one was 'probably' due to another occlusion. They won't replace the pump because they are all slightly different error codes and to get a replacement you need to have the same error code 3 times in 30 days. So I'm stuck with a pump that has 'something' wrong with the hardware, but they don't know what. Ugh. Plus, I want to switch to a black pump, the paint is peeling off on the corners and I think if I had the black one, it would look better because it's black under the paint. Seriously though, THIS is the best technology we can get for $7,000? My cell phone can do 10000 times more things than this silly pump can. I guess it's got an important purpose, but it just feels like they could do better.
On another topic, Jamie and I have decided to start trying not on this next cycle (which should have started about... yesterday) but the next one, so about 6 weeks from now! I have another diabetes appt next week and it's time to get back into the swing of things, and being 100% diligent again. I'm excited to see what my A1C is now. I don't think it'll be that great, but I'm hopeful it'll still be below 6.5!
Until next time....
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Almost time for another one...
And another what, 3 weeks go by without a post... Sheesh. Vegas was amazing, and Jamie and I had a great time... We were kind enough to leave a generous donation in the casino, and enjoyed some R&R (and cheesecake factory, best spinach dip ever!!)and overall just had a really nice time. Scary time too though... My period was 2 days late, and it was a pretty stressful time waiting for it to show up... As much as we'd love to have kids NOW, I'm still on my eye drops, and I had been drinking, so it would have been really bad timing.
Speaking of eye drops, I can't wait to be done with them... I think I have about 2 months left, and then it's done! I'm so glad I got the surgery though, it has been amazing!! Kinda sucks waking up with dry eyes in the mornings, but overall it's really not bad. So weird to just be able to SEE... And not need contacts.
So up next, we have a caribbean cruise, which we leave for on Saturday with my parents... I can't wait. I've been working out really hard at the gym lately too, and I hope it makes a little bit of a difference... I know I should have started a long time ago, but it's better than nothing!
After we get back, it's only a couple weeks until Christmas, and then we're off into a new year, which will hopefully bring us a positive pregnancy test sooner rather than later!! I can't wait <3
Bring on December!
Speaking of eye drops, I can't wait to be done with them... I think I have about 2 months left, and then it's done! I'm so glad I got the surgery though, it has been amazing!! Kinda sucks waking up with dry eyes in the mornings, but overall it's really not bad. So weird to just be able to SEE... And not need contacts.
So up next, we have a caribbean cruise, which we leave for on Saturday with my parents... I can't wait. I've been working out really hard at the gym lately too, and I hope it makes a little bit of a difference... I know I should have started a long time ago, but it's better than nothing!
After we get back, it's only a couple weeks until Christmas, and then we're off into a new year, which will hopefully bring us a positive pregnancy test sooner rather than later!! I can't wait <3
Bring on December!
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Almost Vegas Time!!!
I really forget to post here all the time... So I'm going to try to update more often, but maybe not post as much. Jamie and I are off to Vegas on Saturday! I wasn't going to get a loaner pump, because I figured in Vegas it would be easy enough to get a pump to me should something go wrong. I called Animas to order an extra battery cap and cartridge cap, and mentioned that I was going to Vegas... Apparently Animas Canada does NOT ship to the States! Sooo, I ordered a loaner pump (for Vegas and the Cruise)and it should be coming tomorrow or the next day! I'm terrified that I will lose it, but it will go straight into the safe from our carry-on and it will be sent back to Animas as soon as I'm back from the trips!
I really want to get a one touch mini for the trips, but I don't think I have time to get one... I can always bring along my spare Contour meter, I think I still have 100 strips left over for it!
Jamie and I are going to get back on the TTC train before we know it, hopefully early in the new year... Just gotta get done with these silly eye drops! But I think I need to make another appt with the clinic and get everything back up to where I was operating before. January 1st is my turnaround day, and then it's all diabetes, all planning for baby. I will be focused!!!!! I've been really slacking on writing down everything (although my numbers are still really good) and the new year will be the perfect time to start buckling down. I'm going to technically be on the drpos until February, but it will only be 1X/ day from January 6th on... So I'm not too worried about TTC with the drops, and I will just stop them if I do actually get pregnant. But I'm going to google this a little bit more, those drops are a little bit scary. :)
Anyways, watching the biggest loser, so back to that!
I really want to get a one touch mini for the trips, but I don't think I have time to get one... I can always bring along my spare Contour meter, I think I still have 100 strips left over for it!
Jamie and I are going to get back on the TTC train before we know it, hopefully early in the new year... Just gotta get done with these silly eye drops! But I think I need to make another appt with the clinic and get everything back up to where I was operating before. January 1st is my turnaround day, and then it's all diabetes, all planning for baby. I will be focused!!!!! I've been really slacking on writing down everything (although my numbers are still really good) and the new year will be the perfect time to start buckling down. I'm going to technically be on the drpos until February, but it will only be 1X/ day from January 6th on... So I'm not too worried about TTC with the drops, and I will just stop them if I do actually get pregnant. But I'm going to google this a little bit more, those drops are a little bit scary. :)
Anyways, watching the biggest loser, so back to that!
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Diabetes Burnout
Ahhh, already I feel like I'm back in the world of diabetes burnout. I love my pump, and I love what it can do for me, but I find myself getting almost depressed over my diabetes at times since I've gone back on. Something about being connected to it 24/7 and maybe the fact that I've had a string of iffy infusion sets for the past couple weeks is really wearing on me.
It's hard, I know that pumping is the best thing for me. I love that I can sleep in, and when I have a baby in the future I will never remember to take my Lantus so it's great to have that.... but it just feels like I can NEVER get away from it. I was thinking about when we're going to Vegas again, and just the fact that I can't just go to the pool without something hanging off of me is a little bit grating. Same thing with the cruise... I'm not shy about my pump at all, I just kind of wish it's not something I had to deal with while out at the beach. I have all these cute dresses that I've bought recently and none of them look right anymore with the pump. There is always going to be that lump under my clothing. I know I'm probably the only one who notices it, but it still bothers me.
I dunno, maybe there's underlying stuff going on recently that could be bringing me down, but I feel very debbie downer about stuff as of late. On the other side, we have Vegas in 2.5 weeks, and the cruise in just over a month :) That is for sure something to look forward to.
I'm going to try to update this more, I've really 'fallen off the wagon'... I haven't been keeping track of my carbs or counting them as accurately as before, and I cancelled my most recent Dr's appt (because of a laser eye surgery follow up appt) and I haven't rebooked it. I've been going to the diabetes in pregnancy clinic @ the hospital for about the last 10 months, and I kind of want to just go to a normal dr's appt... I don't really feel like filling out these gigantic forms right now, as I'll have to fill them out religously for however long it takes for us to conceive, and then throughout my entire pregnancy as well.
Bah, sorry, I feel like I'm just whining in this post, not my style for sure. Hopefully Vegas will bring me out of my funk soon!
It's hard, I know that pumping is the best thing for me. I love that I can sleep in, and when I have a baby in the future I will never remember to take my Lantus so it's great to have that.... but it just feels like I can NEVER get away from it. I was thinking about when we're going to Vegas again, and just the fact that I can't just go to the pool without something hanging off of me is a little bit grating. Same thing with the cruise... I'm not shy about my pump at all, I just kind of wish it's not something I had to deal with while out at the beach. I have all these cute dresses that I've bought recently and none of them look right anymore with the pump. There is always going to be that lump under my clothing. I know I'm probably the only one who notices it, but it still bothers me.
I dunno, maybe there's underlying stuff going on recently that could be bringing me down, but I feel very debbie downer about stuff as of late. On the other side, we have Vegas in 2.5 weeks, and the cruise in just over a month :) That is for sure something to look forward to.
I'm going to try to update this more, I've really 'fallen off the wagon'... I haven't been keeping track of my carbs or counting them as accurately as before, and I cancelled my most recent Dr's appt (because of a laser eye surgery follow up appt) and I haven't rebooked it. I've been going to the diabetes in pregnancy clinic @ the hospital for about the last 10 months, and I kind of want to just go to a normal dr's appt... I don't really feel like filling out these gigantic forms right now, as I'll have to fill them out religously for however long it takes for us to conceive, and then throughout my entire pregnancy as well.
Bah, sorry, I feel like I'm just whining in this post, not my style for sure. Hopefully Vegas will bring me out of my funk soon!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Moving along..
This is a short update - not much new to report! Pumping is going great, aside from a ripped out infusion set in the bed which turned out to be a bleeder... Yuck. Little bit of a shock for sure.
Life in general is plunking along, I have my pre-op for laser eye surgery tomorrow afternoon, and assuming all goes well (which it should) I will be getting the surgery sometime Thursday afternoon! After that, my Mom and I are going to Victoria on Saturday, she's doing the Victoria marathon, and I'm doing a wimpy 8km run while she's doing hers. I'm pretty excited though, we're going to go to the museum and fun stuff like that.
After that, of course it will be 1 month from VEGAS! And then 2 weeks til the cruise... I can't wait for the next few months, so much great stuff going on. After Vegas or the cruise (haven't decided excactly where yet), Jamie and I will finally actually starting looking at having kids again soon... We are ready anytime, but at the same time, we have no problem with putting it on hold, we're both so young, we have lots of time.
Anyways, I'm trying to burn a DVD from my video camera of Holly's first 6 months with us... I'm using the iMac to do it, and it is being prettyyyy dumb. You would think that a program called iDVD would be able to do a simple DVD, but it will only play one 'clip' at a time... There is no way to just make it play through! I gotta figure out some way to work around it, I'm not impressed!! Hopefully I figure it out eventually!
Life in general is plunking along, I have my pre-op for laser eye surgery tomorrow afternoon, and assuming all goes well (which it should) I will be getting the surgery sometime Thursday afternoon! After that, my Mom and I are going to Victoria on Saturday, she's doing the Victoria marathon, and I'm doing a wimpy 8km run while she's doing hers. I'm pretty excited though, we're going to go to the museum and fun stuff like that.
After that, of course it will be 1 month from VEGAS! And then 2 weeks til the cruise... I can't wait for the next few months, so much great stuff going on. After Vegas or the cruise (haven't decided excactly where yet), Jamie and I will finally actually starting looking at having kids again soon... We are ready anytime, but at the same time, we have no problem with putting it on hold, we're both so young, we have lots of time.
Anyways, I'm trying to burn a DVD from my video camera of Holly's first 6 months with us... I'm using the iMac to do it, and it is being prettyyyy dumb. You would think that a program called iDVD would be able to do a simple DVD, but it will only play one 'clip' at a time... There is no way to just make it play through! I gotta figure out some way to work around it, I'm not impressed!! Hopefully I figure it out eventually!
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Batteries and Infusion Sites
Wow, time is really flying by! I am less than a week away from no more contacts! I have to wear my glasses (boo) for two weeks, and then it's pre-op and operation (assuming everything looks good in the pre-op of course). My Mom and I are enrolled in some wonderful running a couple days after the surgery as well. She's doing a full marathon (impressive!) and I'm doing an 8km run at the same time, because I'd feel lazy just standing around for 5-6 hours waiting for her to finish... I called the Lasik clinic and they said as long as I don't sweat into my eyeballs, I should be just fine for the run.
I had a little bit of a battery issue with my pump over the weekend... My battery was showing as completely full until late Friday afternoon, when it dropped to 2/3's. I figured I'd get about another 5 days out of it and didn't think anything of it. On Saturday after we got in around 10:45 my pump all of the sudden alarmed and said that the battery was low and to change now. I figured it was just getting a little ahead of itself and decided I'd deal with it the next day. I mean it had JUST gone to 2/3, surely I'd be able to get a few more days out of it. Not the case, Jamie woke me up at 3:30 because my pump was alarming its face off. Luckily he's a light sleeper because there is no way that would wake me up. Anyways, in a sleepy stupor I tried seeing what was going on with the silly thing and the screen is BLACK. I can't touch anything, and the alarm will NOT shut up. I don't know if my basal was still continuing or what. I went downstairs and changed out the battery (thank god I had some double A's sitting around!) and went back to bed, none too pleased. I got 4 weeks out of the battery, so that's not a big problem, but I really do not like that it just died within 36 hours, when it had been showing as completely full. My meter remote is a little bit sketchy too. The battery was showing as 2/3 on some screens and fully charged on some other screens. It started giving me 'change battery' messages, which I ignored initially because the screens still showed as fully charged. After getting the message 3 times (and still getting 2/3 or 3/3 on the screens) I bit the bullet and changed the batteries. I got the change battery screen about 4 hours after changing them, so I have no idea why that came up, as they are brand new batteries. Since then everything looks okay, but I am not happy with these battery issues. I'll see how it goes with what's in there right now and if it drops drastically again, I'm calling tech support. What if I wasn't home? It only gave me 3 hours before my pump was completly 100% not responding at all dead. That is unbelievable, and pretty dangerous if you ask me.
Other thing on my mind is placement of the infusion sets. I love my 'side' areas the best, on my love handles (haha) and my side-stomach essentially. I switch left-front, right-front, left-back, right-back each time. I have the most trouble with areas that tend to bend when I sit down. I put one in today and the adhesive kind of crinkles almost where my skin seems to be bending. I hope it sticks in there well, because I'm worried about it just peeling up. I would use pretty much the exact same spots every time, but I don't want to get any scar tissue. So far my sites look great (can only really see a tiny dot and only for a day or so after) but I'm just worried.
bah, stressful.
I had a little bit of a battery issue with my pump over the weekend... My battery was showing as completely full until late Friday afternoon, when it dropped to 2/3's. I figured I'd get about another 5 days out of it and didn't think anything of it. On Saturday after we got in around 10:45 my pump all of the sudden alarmed and said that the battery was low and to change now. I figured it was just getting a little ahead of itself and decided I'd deal with it the next day. I mean it had JUST gone to 2/3, surely I'd be able to get a few more days out of it. Not the case, Jamie woke me up at 3:30 because my pump was alarming its face off. Luckily he's a light sleeper because there is no way that would wake me up. Anyways, in a sleepy stupor I tried seeing what was going on with the silly thing and the screen is BLACK. I can't touch anything, and the alarm will NOT shut up. I don't know if my basal was still continuing or what. I went downstairs and changed out the battery (thank god I had some double A's sitting around!) and went back to bed, none too pleased. I got 4 weeks out of the battery, so that's not a big problem, but I really do not like that it just died within 36 hours, when it had been showing as completely full. My meter remote is a little bit sketchy too. The battery was showing as 2/3 on some screens and fully charged on some other screens. It started giving me 'change battery' messages, which I ignored initially because the screens still showed as fully charged. After getting the message 3 times (and still getting 2/3 or 3/3 on the screens) I bit the bullet and changed the batteries. I got the change battery screen about 4 hours after changing them, so I have no idea why that came up, as they are brand new batteries. Since then everything looks okay, but I am not happy with these battery issues. I'll see how it goes with what's in there right now and if it drops drastically again, I'm calling tech support. What if I wasn't home? It only gave me 3 hours before my pump was completly 100% not responding at all dead. That is unbelievable, and pretty dangerous if you ask me.
Other thing on my mind is placement of the infusion sets. I love my 'side' areas the best, on my love handles (haha) and my side-stomach essentially. I switch left-front, right-front, left-back, right-back each time. I have the most trouble with areas that tend to bend when I sit down. I put one in today and the adhesive kind of crinkles almost where my skin seems to be bending. I hope it sticks in there well, because I'm worried about it just peeling up. I would use pretty much the exact same spots every time, but I don't want to get any scar tissue. So far my sites look great (can only really see a tiny dot and only for a day or so after) but I'm just worried.
bah, stressful.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)