A-1-jeez!

I've been asking my mom for the last year if she had any of my A1c values from when I was under their insurance... I can't believe what she found.

I was diagnosed DKA in July of 1990. These are the numbers she had for my first ELEVEN years as a diabetic, followed by my more recent history. How am I still alive and complication free????

08.20.90 - 12.9
11.05.90 - 11.4
02.04.91 - 12.3
08.05.91 - 13.7
11.04.91 - 13.6
05.04.92 - 11.2
02.03.92 - 13.9
08.03.92 - 13.6
11.09.92 - 15.4 (WTF? - age 13, translates to an average blood sugar of 395)
02.08.93 - 13.4
05.10.93 - 12.8
08.09.93 - 12.2
11.01.93 - 13.4

(don't know what happened to 1994, but I found where on my 15th birthday, my pre-dinner bg was 506)

03.22.95 - 8.9 (switched from exchanges to carb counting some time during this era, 95ish)
06.27.95 - 9.5
10.03.95 - 9.1
01.31.96 - 10.5
05.07.96 - 9.7
08.12.96 - 9.7

(umm...ages 17-20? are we just forgetting h.s. and college? don't know about these...)

(some time in early 1998, switched to Humalog)

06.10.2000 - start pumping on a MM 508, no more NPH!

02.11.2001 - 9.0
07.22.2001 - 10.1

I pick up my own insurance and start documenting from then on, a few pump upgrades happen, etc...

03.22.2004 - 8.6
12.23.2005 - 8.3 (some time in this year, switched to Apidra)
07.28.2006 - 7.3
11.03.2006 - 8.0
05.25.2007 - 7.6
11.15.2007 - 7.0
02.29.2007 - 7.1 (joined Weight Watchers in April)
06.01.2008 - 6.9 (joined TuD!!!, got a Cozmo a month later)
10.27.2008 - 6.1 (started on a CGMS a month after this one)
02.10.2009 - 6.1
05.21.2009 - 6.1
07.10.2009 - 5.8
09.29.2009 - 5.6

Here's to 19 years of S L O W progress, my friends!

Om-Me-Did

I did it.  I bailed on Cozmo to make the switch to Omnipod.  It shipped out today and should arrive at my CDE's next week.  I'll get my training and get all set up before I head off to Disney World at the end of the month!  I can't believe it's happened so quickly!  Forgive the love fest here, but my CDE and the sales reps at Omnipod (Clarisse & Fernando) have been AMAZING.

Here are some of the many reasons why I am excited about the switch:

1. I do not (repeat DO NOT) have to trade my Cozmo pump in.  I get to keep my IN WARRANTY Cozmo and all my supplies and current Rx's for cartridges and infusion sets.  So I will have a working back-up pump that I love!

2. Insulet Corporation was the only one offering a NEW device rather than a reconditioned used pump.

3. It will use the same strips as my Freestyle Navigator CGMS!

4. I have been dying to try the pods.  Curiosity is killing this kitty.  Here is a shot with one of the dummy pods I've tried.  Pardon the gratuitous back nakedness.