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T1diabetic for 25+ years. 2 successful pregnancies. Teacher of high school math. Married. Love to cook, strive to be healthy and happy, love my pets, love to garden,...

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

January 25, 2012 - Wednesday

I haven't posted in quite a while.  I am floundering, but am figuring out how to adapt and accept.  I have gotten some help with filling out forms and learning the best way to present information.

Blood sugars have been in pretty good control.

My neighbors, who are elderly, are both in a nursing home unexpectedly and I am taking care of their dog.  Hopefully, they will get well enough soon, to be back at home (all 3 of them).  My dogs have accepted this new elderly dog into their pack very well.  I am hoping to take some weight off of the dog as well.  She is much more active at our house.

Today I am filling out a form for the American Diabetes Association for discrimination.  The union I belong to denied me payment through their sick leave bank because the wording my doctor used was severe depression and T1 diabetes.  The mental part of that diagnosis is preventing me being granted the $.  The only way I can receive it with the mental diagnosis is to be put into an inpatient facility.

In my research, mental health can be a complication from diabetes.  I need to be able to show diagnosis as ONLY diabetes being the problem to not being able to do my job.

More later...

Monday, January 2, 2012

January 2, 2012

The Christmas tree is put away and the needles cleaned up.  Two loads of wood on the back porch in preparation for the cold that is to hit our area in the next few days.  Finally, thank you notes are written too.

I did contact the Delegate for our area, who is a good friend, about my needs in filing disability papers.  He has assured me he will help me.  I am so very grateful.  It is a shame that the union that I pay dues for is not more helpful.  What a waste of money!

I inserted the continuous glucose monitor to check myself out since the holidays are now over.  I hope it proves informative and shows that my control is improving.  The site is hurting and I hope within a day or two it will stop hurting.  I think it is sitting on a nerve or pushing against a blood vessel or something.  I may have to reinsert it.

Tomorrow I must get up early, contact the Dr.'s office to see if my letter for FMLA extension is there and deliver it to the board of ed.  Then drop off the sick leave papers to the union office so I can collect once my sick leave is used up.  All of my leave will be used up tomorrow.

I look forward to putting this all behind me.  It really has been a nightmare when I think about the conditions I was teaching under.




Sunday, January 1, 2012

New Year's Day 2012

Checked my blood sugar at 11:30 pm last night, and realized it was 529!  Boxed brownies I think.  They always make my readings go up.  I woke up at 3:30 am and it was dropping so I treated that.  I woke up this morning, reluctantly.  I will take it easy today and do what I can and feel like doing.  I wonder why the highs and lows take it out of me so much?