I called the patient information network this morning to access the lab results from my blood draw and doctor visit Monday.

My A1c is exactly what I guessed, 7.1%. Last time I was spot on accurate too, but last time it was 6.4%. I think my endo was joking when he said in the message that maybe we should stop drawing it since I guess my A1c so precisely.

My TSH came back 1.54, normal normal normal. Also, only .02 different from last time, so maybe I've stabilized. I can hope, hey? My thyroid is still tender.

My endo didn't say exactly how my other labwork came in, just that it was normal. Except for my blood sugar, which was 207. My accu-chek had read 206 just a few minutes earlier. Which reminds me that I've been meaning to make a list of things about the accu-chek aviva:

1. It's accurate.
2. It takes .6 microliters of blood (half the amount of the newer accu-chek).
3. There are four ways to turn the meter on that I've figured out so far. You can hit the forward button a few times, you can hit the back button a few times, you can hit the rather redundant on button, or you can insert a test strip.
4. It comes with the multiclix, which comes with easy to change, not horribly painful lancets.
5. It has skins.
6. And it comes with great customer service from accu-chek.

NovoPen Cartridge Hardiness

I was foolish enough to leave my diabetes kit unattended for a few minutes while in my synagogue's childcare area, and a kid got ahold of my NovoPen Jr and dialed up and pressed until the insulin bubbled through the sides of the opening with no needle on. You know, at the top where the orange part meets the silver? Maybe this isn't a great description. I got it from him, and unscrewed it to relieve the pressure on the cartridge. Wasn't sure if I should keep using it. Decided to take insulin out of it by syringe, did that for a couple of shots, and then decided to see if it would work with a pen needle- and it does!

:-/

I've turned 21 since I last wrote. Didn't do anything special. Did decide to give out candy to my 7th graders if they could draw an obtuse triangle... less than a third could, and my diabetic student wasn't one of them. I had thought she knew that I'm diabetic too, but it turned out she didn't.
I had had a bad tremor in class that my students had commented on in the class before lunch, and she'd seen it. When she'd asked (while I shook) to go to the office to check her blood sugar, I said yes and joked that I should be the one checking my blood sugar. Ten minutes later at lunch as she walked by, I held up my meter to show her my blood sugar. "I didn't know you had diabetes too!" she said. "Now you do," I answered. My blood sugar was 66, which she said was "really low". I guess that tells me about how low she goes (or doesn't).

I've been having a variety of health problems that don't seem to be blood sugar related, including a sometimes tremor with normal and low blood sugars, but not really with high blood sugars. I'm wondering what that could be. I don't feel like I did in the spring, but am still wondering if it could be thyroid related.

I got my H1N1 vaccination (injected) on October 23rd and went and scheduled my next endo visit for November 23rd.