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...

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.

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?

New Year's Eve

The doctor's appointment Thursday went well.  Can't share too much on here, but the doctor agrees that I should not continue to teach if my health is being compromised.

Anyway, not much to say.  I seem at a loss for words lately.  When I have news to share, I will.

Happy New Year one and all!  May 2012 be one of your best.

Blessings,
Tammy

Thursday

Today I go to the dentist and doctor.  The doctor's office called yesterday to ask if I had blood work done yet, which I did not know I was to have it done.  I got up this morning and had it done and asked if they would have the results by 1:15 today and the nurse said probably not.  Wow, I even asked the nurse at the doctor's office if they would have it in time for my appointment and she said yes.  I look to speak with my doctor about lengthening my FMLA and about disability.  The questions that are asked on the form are suspicious and I want to answer them correctly so I am seeking counsel.

Blood sugar this am was 78.  Pretty good!

Wednesday

Well, everyone has gone home and we are adjusting to a quiet house again.  I love having company!  Anyway, a little higher reading this morning.  I changed my infusion site and am waiting to get my readings to normal.

We made way too many roasted vegetables for Christmas dinner.  I am wondering what to do with all of them.  I wonder if it is a faux pas to share with neighbors?

More later (perhaps)...

Christmas Eve

It's been a day since I have written.  I hope you all are well.  After testing before going to bed, my reading was in the 200's.  I took about a unit of insulin and awoke at 12:30 am with a reading of 69, drank milk and ate 1/2 a cookie.  I am wondering how many of you have had young adults return home and they have different lifestyles than when they lived under your roof?  They are very active at night.  This is a little unnerving as well and upset my husband which in turn, stressed me out.  I did return to bed around 1:30.

At 6:30, I got up to begin the breakfast casserole I was making for the family and I was 51.  It is now 8:30 and the casserole is almost ready to be taken out of the oven.  Ah, there goes the timer, I'll be right back.  Mmm, looks good.  I will post the recipe if we like it.  The casserole was great!  It is called Amish Breakfast Casserole on Food.com  It has bacon, cottage cheese, cheeses, onion, and hashbrown.

At 12:00 today we met family at a restaurant for lunch.  It was Mexican food and I probably ate too many chips.  A reading of 289 at 2:30.  Bolused a little less than what the pump suggested I bolus.  Feeling sleepy, yet can't go to sleep.  So I choose to knit, watch football and peruse the internet.

Last evening I noticed a puddle on our kitchen floor.  This morning I kept finding puddles of water and a half hour before going to lunch I mention again to my husband about the water.  Upon closer scrutiny, he finds the spray nozzle hose on the faucet has a kink in the hose and is leaking.  He has gone twice to the store to get repair supplies.  Now he has the entire sink out of it's hole.  Why when we have company do we have plumbing problems?  My husband is so gifted to be able to fix these things.

So now it is the evening.  Dinner is done, got a glass of homemade eggnog and just chillin'.  Family, football and surfin', beautiful.