Haha.....well....picking my pump up Thursday, getting prescription for my Dr and an account with Medtronic. Going live on Feb 7thEvening all.
Seems I'm in a bit of a grump as I'm started to run high, like 11+ at some points during the day and I'm not sure why. Nothing has changed, but it did the same this time last year which lead to rant when I saw the DSN and I think one reason I got an EtchA Sketch.
Really need to start hitting the gym again but it is blinking cold out and past 5pm CBA runs over me in its bus.
Oh well ~shrug~
@porl69 did you say you were getting "pumped"this weekend? Well good luck if you are
Arr no more tickets and i havent heard nothing from the other oneNot another parking ticket Karen?
Or just another bad day at hanging rock?
@porl69 @Knikki @Scott-C @kitedoc and others, the deed is done: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/understanding-the-differences.160484/
It is significantly toned down from my first draft but I hope I still get my point across.
So went to see the physio this morning, we chatted and went through my symptoms - the sciatica has long since gone but has left me with an 'uncomfortable at times' hip joint and I've always had what I call a stiff back but the doc put it down as lower back pain - pain it isn't unless I've just grown use to it! But we get to the diabetes bit - 'So you're Type 1...............so you were diagnosed when you were small then', 'ummmm no I was 27', 'really? that's very unusual, T1 is a juveniles condition'........now I might perhaps be more accepting of this sort of thinking from an older person but he wasn't that old (I've probably got at least 20 years on him). I did inform him that T1 can strike anyone at any age in fact, whether he believed me or not is another matter. Anyway I left with an exercise sheet in hand and the fact my hamstring and muscles are short (and I'm not!).
edit to add: BGs have been good, although after yesterdays Chicken Sunday roast my numbers stayed a bit high, high enough for me to want to do some corrections (note the plural!), didn't come down until a 2am correction last night got me back on track this morning.
A similar spout from my DSN about 18 months ago, 'only children and adolescents are diagnosed with type 1' I thought good grief and this is a diabetes medical professional who is saying this
Today's unexpected interest - learning how to apply a libre sensor if the springy thing has gone ping. This wasn't very easy, though it would probably have been better if I'd known which bit had gone ping. The disk came out, so I thought I had to try and rearm the springy bit. Cue much poking of plastic, and even sawing off the top of the applicator so I could free the blue bit. I didn't do too badly, and eventually got it almost together, and was able to press the disk onto the sensor. Unfortunately at that point it all went ping again.
I did however now have the sharp metal inserty bit, so was able to put that into the sensor again, and I then simply manually applied the sensor. Strangely I felt nothing while doing it - obviously pushing it on is slower than the springy bit.
3 hours later and it all appears to be working - that's saved 50 quid or a tedious phone call
Hmm, this also probably means I now know how to replace a knocked off sensor. Dismantle the applicator, retrieve the needle, sterilise it, insert through the hole in the top the right way round (practice with a dead sensor?), manually stick on,
(s'pose I should put a note : I don't necessarily recommend doing this...)
Good luck @slip, hope you're not planning to drive anywhere right now!View attachment 30767 looks like I might crash and burn - I have about 6u of IOB, time will tell! Happy with the overnight graph and the accuracy of the new sensor.
I would have given up as soon as I thought I may have to manually insert it! (now that sounded much better in my headToday's unexpected interest - learning how to apply a libre sensor if the springy thing has gone ping. This wasn't very easy, though it would probably have been better if I'd known which bit had gone ping. The disk came out, so I thought I had to try and rearm the springy bit. Cue much poking of plastic, and even sawing off the top of the applicator so I could free the blue bit. I didn't do too badly, and eventually got it almost together, and was able to press the disk onto the sensor. Unfortunately at that point it all went ping again.
I did however now have the sharp metal inserty bit, so was able to put that into the sensor again, and I then simply manually applied the sensor. Strangely I felt nothing while doing it - obviously pushing it on is slower than the springy bit.
3 hours later and it all appears to be working - that's saved 50 quid or a tedious phone call
Hmm, this also probably means I now know how to replace a knocked off sensor. Dismantle the applicator, retrieve the needle, sterilise it, insert through the hole in the top the right way round (practice with a dead sensor?), manually stick on,
(s'pose I should put a note : I don't necessarily recommend doing this...)
Now there is a thought that will haunt me for the rest of the dayMorning.
Skips through the forum covered in melted chocolate
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