Sunday, June 24, 2007

International Travel & Diabetes

In just over a week, I'll be travelling to London for 10 days!! Crazy! I am nowhere near ready.

I do have a question for you guys though--what do you do with your basal rates for your pump when you travel multiple time zones? Do you immediately reset your pump clock and therefore basals switch around? I hadn't thought of this until this weekend... HELP! :)

Friday, June 22, 2007

MY Turn! :)

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Auntie M (my favorite!!)
2. Sauron
3. Mel

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My hair
2. My fingernails (Like a couple of others, I have the whole french manicure thing going on all the time)
3. The little freckle by my eye.

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My stomach
2. My skin (I don't tan; I burn or I'm white--like a ghost)
3. My teeth

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. 50%French Canadian
2. 50% English
3. 100% American

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. The dark
2. Bad drivers
3. Going Blind

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. A shower
2. My pump (still nameless--taking suggestions for a smoke colored Minimed)
3. Breakfast of some sort--I get cranky and really super hungry!

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Jeans
2. An orange shirt
3. underwear :)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE MUSICALS:
1. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
2. Annie
3. Pete's Dragon (that counts right :))

FAVORITE SONGS:
1. Dancing Queen :)
2. Amazing Grace
3. Strongtower by Kutless

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. Honesty
2. Respect
3. Love

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS THAT YOU FIND ATTRACTIVE:
1. Waterfalls, the ocean, rivers, lakes, etc.
2. Fenway Park!!
3. a classic blue fitted Red Sox hat :)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Volleyball/Wallyball
2. Reading
3. The Red Sox!!!! (and watching the Patriots too)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Sleep comfortably through the night in my bed! (there's a story behind this)
2. Win the lottery :)
3. Did I say sleep?!

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. Stay at home mom (NOT in my near future!! Don't panic)
2. Proofreader :)
3. Lazy bum!

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Italy
2. Egypt
3. Alaska

THREE KIDS NAMES YOU LIKE:
1. Hannah
2. Nathanael
3. Louise

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. See a Sox-Yankee game at Fenway
2. Be on a game show (Wheel of Fortune! :))
3. Get married, have children.

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A CHICK:
1. I cry fairly easily at the typical sappy stuff
2. I own a lot of shoes
3. I like buying new bags and purses!

THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY:
1. I hide my emotions well (i.e. when I want to cry)
2. I love my Red Sox!
3. I gravitate towards the action and sports instead of hanging back and chatting it up at parties and picnics

THREE CELEB CRUSHES:
1. Matt Damon
2. Mike Vrabel
3. Yooooooouk

Anything else you'd like to know?

Friday, June 08, 2007

a confession and a question

Confession: I rarely log my blood sugars anymore... oops.

Question: Does anyone else find that when they don't log a blood sugar and it's in range, they almost immediately forget the number?! If I've forgotten what I am, I just assume I was fine, and THEN I remember the number.

This happens a lot to me. sheesh girl, get it together!!

Maybe this is another thing that I shouldn't admit--like the security code issue.

Remember to vote for the MLB All-Star game. It might be cheap for me to ask, but just vote, and vote for anyone but the Yankess. Personally, I voted all Red Sox, except the outfield--I voted for Crisp, but not for Drew or Manny--heck, Manny's not gonna show up anyways, so why bother! And other than tonight Drew's been kind of lame (I no sooner hit "vote" than he hit a homerun--ooops :)) Oh and I wrote in Youk for third. :) I LOVE my red sox!!!!

Thursday, June 07, 2007

A little help, please...

Well, on the diabetes front things are up, down, up, down and I'm annoyed. Nuff said.

I'm looking for a little advice from you all about two upcoming trips. The first trip is a weekend camping trip in NH. I've camped before with my pump, so I'm sure that will be fine (although the last camping trip site change was very unsucessful and therefore unpleasant). The foreseeable problem will come with the 12 miles of kayaking that we will be doing on Saturday. Any thoughts? Double ziploc bag the pump and only attach to bolus and cover with some basal insulin? Forget about the pump for a few hours and rely solely on novolog shots every two hours? Waterproof the pump?

I've kayaked a couple of times before, without the pump, and I've never tipped or unexpectedly gotten wet--BUT if it were to happen, I'm sure it would happen with the pump entirely unprotected.

That's my first trip.

My second trip is to England, for a very good friend's wedding. I will be there 10 days, mostly in London. Anything that I NEED to see in London or close enough by to get there easily and cheaply. This is my first time travelling out of the country with my pump--any additional advice? How do people feel about getting the back up pump? Any one from England know the going price for supplies if I need to purchase them at a local drug store--syringes, insulin (I almost typed lancets, but really, I'm not kidding anyone :) )

Thanks!!!