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<blockquote data-quote="aphex2k" data-source="post: 2199623" data-attributes="member: 912"><p>You "have" to? Who says?</p><p></p><p>Home insurance is a little different here. I'd have to have my pump as an "extra" on my policy. For example, I have a $4000 mountain bike which is covered as an extra for loss or damage and that costs me about $45 extra a month on top of my building and contents insurance. It's not a pre-requisite that we have the pump insured and as well as paying for private medical insurance for me and the family, I really didn't plan to lose my 640g.... Or will lose another one.</p><p></p><p>I've been a bit quiet over the last few months as the transition from 640 to 670 has been a difficult one. Constant alarms going off, pump wanting BG's in the middle of the night, alerts on high, alerts on low, battery low, cannula needs changing. It affected me hugely and left me sleep deprived and highly anxious. I've had three periods signed off work and my GP tried to get me an urgent endo appointment. Urgent being "we can see you in Feb". I organised my own appointment and changed a heap of alerts and alarms and which has helped, but the endo also started me on Lexapro to help with my anxiety which I initialy thought was work related stress, but combined with me panicking every time the pump beeped and really broken and poor sleep left me a bit of a mess.</p><p></p><p>Things are looking a bit better but in the midst of this on Dec 1 I got a speeding ticket and have to go to court, with it looking very likely I'll lose my license. This happened at the end of one med cert and the plan was to go back to work on the Monday. A **** night meant I called in sick and got another med cert but I was stressing out about letting my colleagues down at a busy time of the year and worried about going back to work. I lost concentration as I tend to over think at the best of times, and got caught going over the limit by a covert speed camera. I've admitted the charge so wil just see how things go. Big fine and loss of license for 6 months, which hasn't helped my mood or anxiety one bit.</p><p></p><p>I've been playing around with Tidepool, xdrip+ and Nightscout just to keep busy.</p><p></p><p>Oh, in three months my a1c has gone from 7.7 to 7.2. I was expecting sub 6 but my endo says he's perfectly happy and I'd be "top of the class" re my current management. He also said that blood tests would vary from going to different collection centres - kind of like when you do a BG on one finger and it says 6.6 and another finger says 6.9. He told me to look at the big picture and to try try not to worry about "alarms" and just reframe my thinking as to them being gentle nudges of advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aphex2k, post: 2199623, member: 912"] You "have" to? Who says? Home insurance is a little different here. I'd have to have my pump as an "extra" on my policy. For example, I have a $4000 mountain bike which is covered as an extra for loss or damage and that costs me about $45 extra a month on top of my building and contents insurance. It's not a pre-requisite that we have the pump insured and as well as paying for private medical insurance for me and the family, I really didn't plan to lose my 640g.... Or will lose another one. I've been a bit quiet over the last few months as the transition from 640 to 670 has been a difficult one. Constant alarms going off, pump wanting BG's in the middle of the night, alerts on high, alerts on low, battery low, cannula needs changing. It affected me hugely and left me sleep deprived and highly anxious. I've had three periods signed off work and my GP tried to get me an urgent endo appointment. Urgent being "we can see you in Feb". I organised my own appointment and changed a heap of alerts and alarms and which has helped, but the endo also started me on Lexapro to help with my anxiety which I initialy thought was work related stress, but combined with me panicking every time the pump beeped and really broken and poor sleep left me a bit of a mess. Things are looking a bit better but in the midst of this on Dec 1 I got a speeding ticket and have to go to court, with it looking very likely I'll lose my license. This happened at the end of one med cert and the plan was to go back to work on the Monday. A **** night meant I called in sick and got another med cert but I was stressing out about letting my colleagues down at a busy time of the year and worried about going back to work. I lost concentration as I tend to over think at the best of times, and got caught going over the limit by a covert speed camera. I've admitted the charge so wil just see how things go. Big fine and loss of license for 6 months, which hasn't helped my mood or anxiety one bit. I've been playing around with Tidepool, xdrip+ and Nightscout just to keep busy. Oh, in three months my a1c has gone from 7.7 to 7.2. I was expecting sub 6 but my endo says he's perfectly happy and I'd be "top of the class" re my current management. He also said that blood tests would vary from going to different collection centres - kind of like when you do a BG on one finger and it says 6.6 and another finger says 6.9. He told me to look at the big picture and to try try not to worry about "alarms" and just reframe my thinking as to them being gentle nudges of advice. [/QUOTE]
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