Finished Sensor 1

It lasted just under 3 weeks. I probably could have gotten it to last longer, but it was performing inaccurately that day and I was like screw this and yanked out the sensor. The target range set that the chart below gives is 70 as the bottom limit all the time, and 140 as the top from midnight until 6:30, 180 the upper limit from 6:30 until noon, and then 150 as the upper limit the rest of the day. I ran a lot more hypo the first week and had major problems with running high overnight the rest of the time.

Jonah's SG Statistics

time	SG average	Above range	In range	Below range	Standard Deviation
Sensor 1	112	10%	83%	7%	32.3
May 4	104	0%	89%	11%	23.8
May 5	110	2%	87%	11%	31.8
May 6	120	0%	100%	0%	19.9
May 7	102	2%	86%	12%	29.7
May 8	105	5%	88%	7%	25.5
May 9	125	23%	75%	2%	36.9
May 10	88	0%	47%	53%	34.9
May 11	86	2%	76%	22%	20.9
May 12	100	0%	99%	1%	21.6
May 13	110	11%	78%	11%	36.9
May 14	109	0%	100%	0%	20.9
May 15	113	13%	87%	0%	24.5
May 16	120	29%	71%	0%	34.6
May 17	146	37%	63%	0%	35.7
May 18	118	19%	78%	2%	35.4
May 19	106	5%	94%	1%	22.1
May 20	125	16%	78%	6%	38.4
May 21	120	12%	88%	0%	24.2
May 22	109	6%	82%	12%	27.8
May 23	109	8%	78%	13%	35.0

Guardian

Man, I am having fun with my little glukey. Who else thinks that I'm euglycemic almost all the time? I love that! According to glukey, the highest any of my meals has peaked at so far is 176, and the rest of the meals peaked below 150. YES!
I've had the sensor in my arm for just short of seventy-two hours now, and have been getting readings for the past 60. The rep said that I could try extending sensor life past each 3 day increment if the ISIG was above 5; so far it hasn't been below 8.7, and that's only when I'm hypo. The accuracy so far has been pretty good. Not perfect, but pretty darn good.

Here is a list of things I wish I could do with Glukey. Some of them might be features I just haven't located yet.
1. I want to reset the graphic so that the top of the screen is 200 rather than 315, so that I can see the slope more dramatically. I have yet to see a reading on here of 200, let alone 300, and I think that having the graph show my actual range is not a ridiculous request.
2. Show me what I've imputted for my meals and insulin. That would be so useful!
3. Let me upload the info onto my computer with a USB port. I don't seem to have whatever sort of outlet it is that goes with the cable that came with the comlink software, and neither does my dad's computer. That's a real bummer. If any of you have advise on how to find a computer to look at my data on, that would be helpful.
4.I want to be able to scroll back and look at the window that showed up 3 hours ago under the 3 hour graph. I want the 5minute by 5minute view of what happened after I fell asleep, not the 10minute by 10minute version.
5. Louder alarms. My first night with the sensors, I woke up at 3AM to a LO SG alarm. My accu-chek aviva confirmed that my blood sugar was 52. Scrolling back however, I saw that at 1 AM, my blood sugar'd been 40. Glukey apparently alarmed then too, but I didn't wake up.

Radio Signals

Last night after the conclusion of the sabbath and after my mother had finished putting to bed my youngest two brothers (who are five and eleven), we- which is to say my mother and I- inserted my sensor. It's sitting on my left arm. My mother clicked on the minilink transmitter. We did not notice what happened to the light on the minilink. I went on the Guardian and hit new sensor. I got the little icon that means that the Guardian wasn't receiving any signal. Thinking that that might be a problem, I called the minimed hotline. The guy on the phone said not to worry, that it would change within a half hour. OK. I went home, went on my computer, listened to my roommate yakking on his phone. Then the guardian goes BEEP BEEP BEEP and says I've lost a sensor. Oookay. I went to find lost sensor. Fifteen minutes later, BEEP BEEP BEEP LOST SENSOR I called the hotline again. The person on the phone told me to remove the minilink, recharge it, wait for the green lights on the charger to stop blinking, remove the minilink from the charger, wait for the green lights to go off, and then attach it to the sensor, and wait and if I don't see green lights, then it's not transmitting.
So I tried charging the sensor (which was really already charged) and then reattaching it. No green light. I thought maybe I just hadn't seen the light, since the sensor is on the opposite side of my arm. BEEP BEEP BEEP LOST SENSOR. Right. After I'd had enough of that, I started looking for things that might be the matter. I unplugged the spreader. Then I got a signal, but that lasted for only about fifteen minutes, and then it went. So an hour later, I got BEEP BEEP BEEP Yuck. I went to sleep. In the morning, I tried it again in my room- no luck. I tried again in the lobby however, and it worked! I went to my parents' for breakfast, didn't eat much breakfast, just watching the icon that means that signals are being recieved and checking the ISIG every few minutes. Eventually I got beeped for a calibration, did one.

And I've been getting numbers for three and a half hours now. It's so cool that I keep glancing at it and get excited every few minutes, when it updates. Right now it is showing 128. It reads that the time is now 13:47, and that I last got a reading at 13:43. However, the reading that claims to be for a certain time has, each time, showed up 1-4 minutes afterwards, except once I got a weak signal and then after about ten minutes I got two new readings at once. It's a little hard, still, to remember to keep it with me.
I'm also trying to figure out these arrows. Like, it says I'll get an arrow if the rate of change is at least 1 mg/dl per minute. But at 13:03, the number was 100. At 13:08 it was 110, with no arrow, and then at 13:13 it was 114 with an up arrow. How does that work?
OOOH, the 13:48 number just showed up. It's another 128.

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Last night I ate supper and injected for it, around 1800 hours. At 2015 hours, I checked my blood sugar: it was 175. I took two units of Novolog and decided to take an extra five units of Lantus. I'm pretty sure I did. At 2223 hours, I was ready to go to sleep. I checked my blood sugar, expecting something between 100 and 200. My meter read 362. WTF?! I rechecked and it said 299, which was still way too high. I injected 5 units Novolog and set my alarm clock for 200 hours. I woke up about five minutes before the alarm would've gone off, checked my blood sugar at 160, injected 1.5 units Novolog- all by the light of my answering machine- and went back to sleep. In the morning I woke up with a blood sugar of 102. I think it's a little funy that a crappy night like that one is recorded as a success 'cause I woke up 102, but on the other hand I think I deserved it. I worked for that 102. Wish I knew what happened to make my blood sugar go so high.

My first sensor will be inserted tommorow night... wow.