Living with Diabetes and Lapband

Saturday was interesting

I left in as long as I could, then piddled around with Windows 7 on my curriculum notebook. 

I had a Bandster's support group at 2:00 pm -- interestingly enough, at a Mexican restaurant.  Had chips, chimichanga, eating the guts, and a bit of the shell and broken down and got a frozen margaretti, haven't had one in years and it was good.  Good company and good help.

My biggest problem right now is sleep, I'm only sleeping about 6 hours a night, no matter when I got to bed, and I've got a message out to my sleep doctor about it.  My mask is due to be replaced on the 19th, and it might be as simple as that.  I also asked if there were new masks.

By the way, I decided to go back to Windows XP on the curriculum , didn't have two major drivers.

Good Day

Yesterday was a good day -- but not with food, oh well, but Friday's never are.  I'm tired, I'm stiff, etc.

Figured out that my 7th and 8th period classes go better if I shut the door when it rings.  About half of my 8th period were in the hall, and only 2 made it back.  It was MUCH calmer.  I'll be doing that every day now.

Personal trainer came and I did a good work out, then Macy and I tried Rally for the first time.  Rally is a cross between agility and obedience, but more toward obedience.  You have signs, and you have to do what the sign says.

Macy heels pretty, but needs to learn to turn, and not to forge so much.  Also needs to learn fronts and finishes.  We had a good time.

Best Practice Ever

Okay, we call them "classes" in agility. But we had our best run ever last night.  No food in the hand, 18 obstacles, including teeter, chute and broad jump.  We were fast, we were good and we had a good time.  I even did a front cross in the last third of the course.

Progress!

And it feels so good when you run together.

Didn't do well on the drinking thing, but did get 12 minutes in on the treadmill.  Slept all night be didn't get to bed before 11:00 pm. 

But had a good run!

Day 5 - Yesterday sucked

Blood sugar was 118 this morning which was good.

Between Superintendent's Meeting and just a long day, no treadmill time.

Did take Macy to agility class but spent most of the time working with her with me on the floor -- teaching her bang it.

Got home to late to treadmill.

Food quantity and quality was better.

No drinking.

Dummy me decided to load Windows 7 on my Thinkpad.  LOVE it.  I love Windows 7.

See my computer science blog at http://www.kweaver.org for the rest of the day.

Day 4

I "cheating" starting tomorrow's entry today and setting it to publish after I've already arrived at school (barring some weird emergency).

And the cheating seems to have worked!  I'm up and blogging but have most of the hard work done.  Blood sugar was 159.  Better than yesterday at least.  

Got my teacher workstation up and running, I am pretty sure I have all the hardware drivers installed and when I left I had Ping running a backup.  So should be good.

My specialist arrived early in the morning, and was relieved I had the hard work done.  It didn't take him long to remove the student version of Deep Freeze and a bit longer to add the teacher version.  He also left me with our licensed copy of Norton Ghost, and a boot CD, but I'm not sure it works, I tried it first before I ran Ping (I'm going to write a review of Ping on the CS site when I get a chance).

Water didn't go as well, blood sugar testing went better today then probably any other day -- the Ameribag (extra small) is helping and I occasionally remember to take it with me when I go on "house calls", but didn't late in the day -- did at noon.

Personal trainer came by and I got in 15 minutes of walking before she got there, we alternate weights and treadmill, for an hour long workout, so I got 30 minutes of walking in.  Then crashed -- the time change is getting to me.

I'm still not sleeping well.  Waking up around 4:00 am and waking up a lot between then and 6:00, then having trouble getting out of bed. 

Overall my blood sugar levels was better, just need to work on the drinking thing.

Day 3

Blood sugar was 179 this morning -- yikes -- put in 50% basal increase that usually helps fix those kinds of things.

May have to up my over all basal as my classroom was incredibly hot yesterday and that seems to make my blood sugar go up.  Not sure if it's the kids complaining and falling asleep or the physical stress.

Got in 11 minutes on the treadmill, I've been consistantly doing 10 minutes, so now I'm trying to get to 15 minutes again.  Still have an incredible amount of pain.

Got an H1N1 shot -- we have a local company that provides the shots no questions asked.  Giving out about 800 a day.  Took all of 15 minutes and will remember them next year for regular shot, as they are quite good at getting people processed.  Fill out form, give $20, get shot and out the door.  Dallas Morning News hates them so more reason to go with them.

Day 2

Got in 10 minutes on the treadmill, did much better on testing, though I haven't yet tested today ... better stop to do it.

Starting out the day at 135, which isn't too bad.  I did leave my pump suspended a bit too long but that will show up on the next test not this one.

Water was slightly better, need to work hard on that.

Having lots of pain and have decided to fire the chiropractor, he leaves me hurting for days, and the old guy didn't.  This guy bought out the first guy's practice, so it wasn't my choice.

Still having trouble sleeping all night.

Skipping Halloween

I don't really like Halloween and it's been worse since I've been diagnosed with diabetes.

Last year I had decided to skip it and my husband decided he wanted to make a big deal.  <sigh>  Really made me mad, as he went ahead and did it even though I expressed my displeasure.

Drove me nuts, drove the dogs nuts.

Now I wouldn't mind if it were just the neighborhood kids because we're across the street from a park, and people were dropping their kids off and picking them up at the end of the street.

Really urks me.

Last night was great, we left everything off, and only one group ran the bell.  Dogs barked and they sent went off.

I'll probably skip Thanksgiving too.

Though I did pick up some emergency sugar at the after Halloween sale at Walgreens.

Blogging every day in November

My diabetes control has been sucking -- A1C of 8.1 and I still am not losing weight the way I would like to, so I'm going to try blogging on the Living with Diabetes/Lapband blog everyday and see if that helps.

So far, my blood sugar is 119 which is excellent the day after Halloween.  The only bad diet things I've done was to eat an ice cream cone.  No Halloween candy.

I'm also planning to get in at least 10 minutes on the treadmill daily and keep my bag with me -- I left it upstairs for a while yesterday and as a result missed a blood sugar check.

Also trying to drink more during the day.

Yesterday was treat me day -- got in 10 minutes on the treadmill, but also got my hair done -- I'm going to try to wear it more curly and keep it from frizzing.  Got my nails done and let the salon talk me into a facial.  The hair place is hair only, and dropped by my new regular nail salon on the way home.

I'm torn -- it's more expensive than the ones close to the house but I like the cleaniness better, the atmosphere better, but it is farther away.  However, I'm in that direction a couple of times a week now.

Having things like my nails done just make me feel more together.

If she thinks that guilt is a problem for Type 1 ....

Diabetes Can be a Five Letter Word.

... and that five letter word is "guilt."

via sixuntilme.com

And she thinks guilt is a problem for Type 1s...... Let me tell you what it is like for the overweight, Type 2, diabetic.

Forgetting the fact that both my parents have been diagnosed with diabetes, and both of my fathers parents were diagnosed with diabetes, and that my father, his father and mother, all died of cardiovascular complications of diabetes ...

IT IS MY FAULT I HAVE DIABETES.

Ask any one.  Ask my endo, my primary care physician, the NY Times or anyone walking down the street.  It is my f*ing fault I'm here.

At least I was diagnosed before "pre-diabetes".

Seriously my blood sugar has been watched since I was a teen ager.  My first fasting glucose test as done when I was around 15 and NOT over weight.  In fact,  I was pretty thin (disappeared when I turned sideways) until I was riding a bicycle and hit by a car.

One doctor (sleep / pulmonary specialist and one of the top in the city of Dallas) figures that I have sleep apnea because my jaw was broken.  Love him, because the undiagnosed sleep apnea is probably the cause.  

I have struggled with sleep and weight since then.  And I rarely win.

But I'm sorry -- Type 1s don't know the first thing about guilt -- we've deal with the same guilt as we do PLUS!  (and yeah, I know a lot of idiots blame Type 1 on too much sugar too).