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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
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Wednesday, July 22, 2026 11:13 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Boy... I did NOT feel well after 5 hours of yard work. I know they were rough, but not to the point I should be feeling that bad.

It turns out my damn sensor I just installed last night was trying to kill me is all.

I have no idea if any reading it's given me since insertion is even accurate.

Twice while working I went in and took glucose tabs because I knew I needed them despite the monitor saying I was around 120. By the time I was finished working, I barely had the energy to take a shower. After washing my feet, I just kind of sat in that chair with the water flowing on me for about 3 minutes before I finally found the will to stand up.

By that time, not only had I lost the signal because I was in the shower (which happens on occasion), but I got the much more rare "transmitter error; wait up to 3 hours" message. Whenever I've gotten this, it's always fixed itself before. But this time it came back online and screamed at me, telling me I was 400, which is the maximum it will even show.

I did a finger prick.

80

I did a second finger prick.

82.

Fuck you, Dexcom.




I feel great now after eating nothing but a small bag of chips. Just as good as I did before I started any work today.


Google AI did me a real solid and reminded me to shut off automated mode. Fortuately, I already had it off because I wanted to give myself a timed-release bolus for the chips and you can't do that if automated mode is on, but at least according to Google AI, my pod might have started giving me MASSIVE hits of insulin to combat the 400 reading and probably would have finally killed me.

If that's true and there isn't some sort of safety trigger that would keep the massive hits of insulin coming after an event like I laid out above, I guaranty you that people have died at the hands of Dexcom and Omnipod, and somebody is hiding it.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2026 11:22 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


SIX, glad you listened to your body and not the machine!

Also, are you drinking enough water and - just as important - eating enough SALT?

Hubby gets very fatigued and his heart starts skipping beats if not enuf salt, and I get debilitating cramps.

Be careful with yourself!

Oh yeah, and fuck Dexcom.



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Wednesday, July 22, 2026 11:32 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:

I try to avoid the management as much as possible because they don't really do much around here. And since I've moved in and I have been here around 6years now. The first manager I don't know who she worked for but she was here a while. I told her about the oven not working, so came up and had a look. Said she get operating instructions for me. I asked her twice and she never did. She left because she got sick. Second lady worked for the actual owners of the building and she was only here a couple of years, then there was a third that worked for a property management company and she was here a couple of years. Only came in once or twice a week. There was a repair company then the left. So basically now the building is on the "fourth" property management company and they are really in the office. Signs up saying call this company about things. They only come in when they are called.

Oh, I know about all the hassle and taxes. But at times I do feel like someone is looking over my shoulder making sure I do things right. Gets me down is all.

. I know what you mean. Houses mean different things to different people, but for me it always meant a garden. I missed having a garden whenever I lived in an apartment, and even when we had a townhouse, altho at this point I'm like SIX: I could do with less garden AND less house.

I guess if you're going to dream of the ideal, may as well make it a smaller, newer, well built house and yard with a porch, in the city, close to doctors and pharmacies and bus line.

Now THAT sounds ideal!

We can dream, eh?

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Wednesday, July 22, 2026 11:39 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, glad you listened to your body and not the machine!



Yeah... I had to. It was either my blood sugar was low or I'm dying.

I don't eat much during the day still unless I need to, and that's still never slowed me down. But you can just tell when it's happening. I never got so low today that I started seeing "sun spots" in the center of my vision, but that's only because I felt them coming on and took action when my sensor was not doing its job before its complete failure.

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Also, are you drinking enough water and - just as important - eating enough SALT?


Probably not. I never add salt to anything, and I don't eat a lot of junk food. I should have been drinking water today instead of coffee, but the high was only 71 (YAY!) and I didn't feel that I needed it. I don't think I would have broken a sweat if it wasn't from the hypoglycemia sweats.

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Hubby gets very fatigued and his heart starts skipping beats if not enuf salt, and I get debilitating cramps.

Be careful with yourself!



Good advice. I will try to do better with both of them.

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Oh yeah, and fuck Dexcom.



I bitch about their prices, but if you're looking to meet your maker, $800 for 3 Dexcom sensors is a lot cheaper than a visit to Dr. Kevorkian.



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Wednesday, July 22, 2026 11:45 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


By the way, Sigs...

I looked back at my story and I realized that I didn't actually paint the accurate picture.

When I finally took my blood, it was after I ate the chips and gave myself a small extended bolus (over 4 hours instead of immediately).

My old finger prick sensor appears to have died for good already. I did have the one the education center gave me that I never use because it required completely different strips than I had on hand, but it also came with 10 strips. I didn't find that one until after I'd already eaten. I don't know how much time was in between, but there was surely enough time for the food to start kicking in.

I wasn't sitting in that shower doing nothing for 3 minutes at 80/82. I operate just fine in the 70's and 80s. I had to be low 50's or even in the 40's in that shower. Not the mid to low 40's because that's when I start going blind in the center of my vision, but low enough that combined with 5 hours of exercise had me not even wanting to stand up.

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Thursday, July 23, 2026 1:41 AM

BRENDA


Off to mah jong tomorrow and a few errands after.

My area almost hit 100F this afternoon.

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Thursday, July 23, 2026 1:47 AM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:

I try to avoid the management as much as possible because they don't really do much around here. And since I've moved in and I have been here around 6years now. The first manager I don't know who she worked for but she was here a while. I told her about the oven not working, so came up and had a look. Said she get operating instructions for me. I asked her twice and she never did. She left because she got sick. Second lady worked for the actual owners of the building and she was only here a couple of years, then there was a third that worked for a property management company and she was here a couple of years. Only came in once or twice a week. There was a repair company then the left. So basically now the building is on the "fourth" property management company and they are really in the office. Signs up saying call this company about things. They only come in when they are called.

Oh, I know about all the hassle and taxes. But at times I do feel like someone is looking over my shoulder making sure I do things right. Gets me down is all.

. I know what you mean. Houses mean different things to different people, but for me it always meant a garden. I missed having a garden whenever I lived in an apartment, and even when we had a townhouse, altho at this point I'm like SIX: I could do with less garden AND less house.

I guess if you're going to dream of the ideal, may as well make it a smaller, newer, well built house and yard with a porch, in the city, close to doctors and pharmacies and bus line.

Now THAT sounds ideal!

We can dream, eh?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger



At this stage of the game that is all I am doing. Dreaming.

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