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!
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2 weeks ago
3 comments:
Isn't it interesting to look back on that stuff! In some ways I wish I could remember more about it, but in other ways I'm glad I can't. :-)
Wow, that most certainly is progress!
Wow, so impressive! What impresses me most is thatyour progress is slow and steady down, not jumping all over the place.
I guess that's what growing up does to you... ;-)
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