Airline troubles?

Has anyone ever had this happen?? This is an interesting article.

From the flight deck: diabetics, watch your insulin

I use small doses of insulin, compared to most people. When I fly, I can count on a decrease in my blood glucose values, I wonder if this is why? I should disconnect next flight and see if my trend continues. I figured it was a psychosomatic reaction to flying, maybe not!?

I see some trial and error in the future.......

I love the fog!

It has been a solid month of fog......every day....a luxury of living on the ocean, in the month of May. I am ok with the fog, it allows me to hide from the world for a short period of time. I look out the window, I see a grey haze, that is it.
That being said, I feel good.....I had a great run in the Bluenose Marathon the weekend past (Great BGL's the whole race!!!). Last evening we had a monthly gathering of the "diabetes group". Life is good.

I enjoy travelling, and thought it was ok to go through the "full body scanners" at the airports, until I read this article by Medtronic. TSA Screenings Update for People with Diabetes Have a read, could be important information! This won't stop me from venturing......just allows me to be a little more educated along the way.

A blue and green christmas......

We've been having storm after storm after storm here on the East coast of Canada, resulting in a wet and green christmas. I am ok with the lack of snow, but it really does not feel like Christmas......feels like something is missing......this year, something is missing. Ah well, hold on cause the waves are rolling and the earth is turning....is this a permanent change? I hope not.

Merry Christmas everyone, enjoy this time when life slows down and we can take a few days to rest with family.

Happy no-D day!

If you get a chance to visit Iceland, DO IT!!

STAR 3 trial clinically validates the Medtronic integrated system

STAR 3 trial clinically validates the Medtronic integrated system

Jelly Bellys were on sale at Costco......

Last week, I visited Coscto with my parents. This is where this story starts!

The night before, I had emptied the candy jar that I keep hidden under my bed. It was a nice midnight feast (that I vaguely remember). I recalled this event when we were browsing the isles of Costco, and I saw an extra large bag of "Jelly Belly's" on sale! "ok", I thought to myself "lets try something different.....all sorts of great flavours!"

The large bag of beans came home with me, and filled my midnight candy jar.

Let's fast forward to the other night. I had an excellent "bootcamp" workout, but it left me a tad low around 2am. I reached for the candy jar, knowing I only needed a few of these magic beans. I stuck my hand in the jar, grabbed 6 beans, and started chomping.

For a mere second I thought I was going to gag! What the heck happened?

GROSS. That is all I can say about that. Individually, Jelly Belly's carry unique jelly bean flavours and are quite tasty. Coffee, watermelon, lemon, popcorn, coconut, berry, chocolate.....but when you take 6 incompatible flavours, and throw them in your mouth at the same time, it is not tasty. Resembled barf.....

Rude awakening! Lesson learned!

Eating those tiny jelly beans one at a time, is about the same as trying to eat KD one noodle at a time :)

Just went I thought I knew everything about my pump......

Late last night, I woke to my pump asking for a calibration. In my haste to get to sleep after work last night, I forgot to test before going to sleep.

After my test, I was scrolling through the pump screens to get to my "daily totals". I don't usually look at this number, but for the past few weeks I have been watching my daily totals (.....just curious). Being dark, I was using the backlight to illuminate the pump screen.

When the screen light timed out, I pressed the button to reactivate the light, but I did not realize that I has missed button, and pressed ACT while I was looking at a daily total.

I looked at the pump, and I had no idea what I was now looking at......what was this breakdown? I had no idea that I could see the breakdown of my daily total by pressing ACT, while on a certain day's total.

I was looking at my %daily total basal versus %daily total bolus, and many other summary features. This was amazing, and I had no idea.

Funny how you think you know something inside and out.....and in the wee hours of the morning, you find yourself under the covers scrolling through daily totals for the past week looking at in depth details......what a neat discovery.....took awhile to fall back asleep!!