New fingers please!

30 August 2008
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Man I’m being a whinger today. But hey – here’s another little moan for you (it’s the tiredness talking, I promise. Am going to put myself down for an afternoon nap today).

MY FINGERS ARE LIKE PIN CUSHIONS! All this testing is mangling them up… and apparently it might take me as long as three months to get this pump sorted. My hand modelling career is steadily going down the tube…. some other lucky woman is going to land those lucrative Palmolive TV ads now.

Anyone out there got any good advice on healing up all the pin pricks?

 

P.S – I was lying about the hand modelling.

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By Nic on 30 August 2008 at 11.11 am
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Bad hair day.

30 August 2008
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I think I’m going to have to coin a new phrase – a bad D day. Yesterday was one of them. Nothing totally shocking or awful happened, no crazy hypos resulting in me being carted off to hospital or crashing my car, but just a bit of a bleuuuuurgh day.

I’ve been cranking along on the pump really nicely to date and let me say right now that I truly absolutely believe pumping is a hundred times better than MDI. What I was cross at yesterday was that I seem to have hit a certain point in my menstrual cycle which has thrown things sideways, diagonally and downwards – grrrrr.

I’ve known this for a while, really. I seem to…

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By Nic on 30 August 2008 at 10.44 am
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Running on empty.

29 August 2008
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It takes a little bit of getting used to, this pump business. On MDI (multiple daily injections) you can’t help but see how much insulin you have left in the vial because you are looking at it every time you inject.

However, on the pump you don’t look so much. The cartridge is round the side, at the back – you’re always looking at the screen as you navigate through all of the programming options. Which is not to say you don’t have full visibility at all times regarding how much there is left in the cartridge – there’s a display on the home screen indicating how many units you have left, and how much battery power you have…

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By Nic on 29 August 2008 at 8.28 am
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Great name for a blog…

28 August 2008
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ahahah – had to have a chuckle when I saw this website come up in a Google search: http://www.muntedpancreas.com. Only in Australia eh.

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By Nic on 28 August 2008 at 7.13 pm
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Let the fasting begin.

27 August 2008
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After my mishap this morning, I managed to claw it back most of the way:

9:40 – Only just realised the error, oops – BG = 19.5, took 6units
10:11 – 21.6
10:29 – 19.4
10:49 – 17.6
11:07 – 16.7
11:40 – 14.2, 40g carb, 4.4u bolus, 3.3u correction

So it was coming down. I had an early lunch because this afternoon the nurse wants me to test my basal rates, so I’ve agreed to do a fast from 12pm through til 8pm, just to see what my BGs do when I’m not interfering (it’s easy to test this overnight of course because you’re not eating).

So, the fasting has begun. I nearly always…

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By Nic on 27 August 2008 at 12.56 pm
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