Andrew had a good check-up today! I checked him out of school, we stopped for lunch at Subway, and then hit the Galleria before our appointment. Andrew has grown and needs new shorts with pockets. Pockets are very important if you have to carry a pump & cgm all the time! When he got to his appointment, his blood pressure was great, which was a relief to me! His A1c was higher, but it was an exact match to his 3 month CGM average! That meant that we were prepared for the number, and it also reinforced that Dex is doing a good job. I also feel more empowered to make changes than ever before due to two relatively new things in our life:
1. Waking to CGM - Being able to wake up to Dex alarms allows us to strive for better nighttime control. We lowered his range from 150 +/- 30 to 130 +/- 20. That makes 150 our upper tolerance limit rather than the target.
2. Diasend! Diasend is new online software service provided by Animas for uploading our pump. Since all numbers taken from our meter are automatically sent to the pump, this downloads every BG, bolus, basal, etc. Diasend is so much better at organizing the data so that I can make good decisions. I admit that we rarely log now that we are on the pump & CGM & everything can be downloaded. The downside is that columns of numbers really show trends well. Diasend sets this up in a perfect, logical fashion! This software was just released this month for Animas Ping & I'm already a fan!
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