Monday

Not a bad Monday, as Mondays go.  I am grateful to be available to help a friend who is a neighbor and is elderly.  She is 86 and is in need of rides to visit her husband who is still in a nursing home and is suffering from a stroke.  I do not have living parents so I do enjoy spending time with them.  These are the neighbors whose dog I watched for 5 weeks.

I am still dealing with high blood sugars after most meals.  My endocrinologist has contacted Animas who is to send me someone to show me how to use the combo bolus feature on my Animas Ping pump.  I will try this for meals before trying a drug called Simlyn which replaces the hormone Amylin.  Amylin prevents the liver from producing too much glucose with meals and upon waking in the morning (dawn phenomena).  I suffer from this, but the drug is dangerous because if you go low with it, even when you eat, the drug prevents glucose in the liver so no matter how much you eat, it may not be enough.  It also slows down digestion.

The other issue I need to get an answer to is my CGM.  It will occasionally shut off and make this awful beep.  Then the word 'INITIALIZING' will go on the screen and after a few minutes the monitor will beep loudly twice again.  At this point, sometimes it comes on and sometimes is shuts off.  I have not been able to get it to come back on unless I plug it in to charge.  I have no idea what is going on with it.  This is why I stopped using it when I was teaching because the sound of the device was so loud and I could not predict what made it beep so loudly.  Now that I am home and not teaching, I use the CGM more often and find the information it gives me useful.

I made two good recipes through AllRecipes that we had for dinner tonight.  One is Chorizo Lentil Stew and the other is Blueberry Cornbread Muffins.  They compliment one another nicely and the carbs are included with the nutritional value!

I hope everyone had a nice day!