What feels like an embarrassment of riches in today! 😎
Now that I am fully covered, it was time to start getting the Libre sensors through the usual channels. Which apparently involves just requesting more through the local health authority, so they can evidently just tell the manufacturer to ship some to you directly.
Guessing you might be able to just do that through the healthcare web portal, but I still don't have access yet. So, Mr. C needed to call them. And didn't remember I'd gotten one bad sensor, so put it off until a few days before my last one expired last week. 😩
Thankfully those didn't take super long to ship, but yeah. I ended up going without since Thursday, and was extra glad to see these once he got off work today and picked up the package!
The rest of the booty is now duly stashed on my dedicated shelf of mainly diabetes shit! 😅 Haven't even gotten all the stray glucose meters and stuff in there yet.
Even more impressed at just how important the CGM data is for decent management--not to mention basic safety! 😰--after months of having it to work from. Even harder to believe that this was not NHS standard of care now that I've experienced the difference, bad as the system is about ill-advised pennypinching in general. (I understand that at least the Libre 2 is recently finally starting to be covered more for T1, but jfc. I never even saw an endo there, as some indication.)
I've actually been doing more finger stick testing the past few days than I regularly did when that was all I had to rely on. Thankfully, my blood sugar levels had mostly settled back down from the craziness with that last virus, and I had pretty much gotten insulin dosages stable again. My eating ability/food intake has also thankfully been staying steadier lately. So, at least my blood sugar responses were staying more predictable. (As much as they ever will...)
It was still pretty stressful, flying by the seat of my pants, based on a few blurry snapshots for navigation. And, of course, without any warnings available if something did start going dangerously wrong. As they can pretty damned fast, and for no apparent reason.
"Sir, that is my emotional support constant glucose display!"
(With Diabox still being sorta bitchy about consistently reading the new sensor over Bluetooth, but meh. Not unusual for a few hours.,)
Very glad to get that going again, at any rate. And we should be set for a few months. 👍
