April 24, 2002
Diabetes
I feel like I should just get back into bed and sleep the rest of this week. Might as well. I ran out of Humulin N, my slow acting insulin yesterday. It was my fault, and I should have ordered it sooner, but I didn't. I called CVS to get refills and they informed me at 7 AM yesterday that they needed to get approval from my doctor. Usually this takes a few hours, but I didn't need it until last night so I thought I would be ok. After numerous calls to CVS, my doctor and a visit to CVS last night at 10:45, no dice. The jerk never got around to calling the prescription in.
If this was headache medicine or something less important I could understand, but as a diabetic, insulin is literally my lifeline. Also, last night the battery in my glucometer died. Of course it had to be one of the strange battery types that not only is expensive, but hard to find. After searching for about an hour I gave up and just bought a whole new glucometer system for about $20. I figured the battery might have cost me almost 10, so another 10 for a new system was worth it. I haven't updated mine since I first was diagnosed overe three years ago, and there have been some significant advances in this field since then.
For now, I am forced to eat about 25-50% of the food I had been eating recently and managing my sugar by popping myself with more frequent injections of the fast acting insulin. Not really the preferred method, and not the most accurate either, but it is what I have to do. By the way, this is one of the many reasons that I am changing doctors as mentioned in a previous post.
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