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So Much for Positive Thinking

Reading back through the last few posts I am realizing what a whiney baby I have become!

Grumpy Diabetic

This just says it all for me today...Fasting bs - 272 blah.

Monitor time

My God, you would think that getting the insurance company to help with the costs of a meter and strips constitutes a national crisis! I have two meters at home, the problem is I am not "home", I am in Atlanta visiting my poor lonely husband and of all things to forget, meters and strips were top of the list it seems. My new doctor put in a script to get new ones here in Ga, but that is asking too much of lovely Aetna. I really shouldn't complain I guess, with the long and winding road of meds for this annoying disease, they have not baulked once at paying for anything. It just seems that when you want testing supplies, you have to go through different channels and those channels are not quick. The time quoted was 7-10 working days. Shit I will be back in Florida by then! So I went with another solution that required money out of pocket. Walmart has come out with their own diabetic testing supply line and expensewise it is VERY reasonable. I bought a meter for around

Fell off the wagon, again.

I am guessing that after 2 years it might be time to "blog it up" once again. The last few years have been uber busy and stressful, many things I won't go into, but I will tell that I fell off the "Diabetic in control" wagon. I call it burn out, others call it fed-up, tired, denial, whatever. It happens, we are human after all. A diabetics day (whether type 1 or type 2 or any other of the lastest version of diabetes) is full of reminders, no-no's, monitors, medicine etc. Many days when all we want to do is forget we have a pain-in-the-ass chronic disease, we are faced with a myriad of decisions and reminders that we do indeed have this disease and we are not like "normal" people. The hardest part of this disease, for me anyway, is the food to mouth aspect. I cannot eat like most people around me, I can't even eat at the same times that many people around me do. I must juggle food timing as well as the actual type of foods I choose