Tandem x2 with g5 pump, so far this signal loss thing is making me crazy!

How many of you using the tslim x2 with g5 integration are having signal loss issues nonstop? I know I am.  My phone has ZERO issues keeping the signal.  ZERO.  The pump, on the other hand, cant keep the damn signal at all. Especially at night while Im covered up. I have for EIGHT YEARS worn my pump in a sports type bra thing in a baby sock so I can hear alarms. Well the only damn alarm I get is SIGNAL LOSS! WTF TANDEM?  If it werent for my phone my dexcom would be worthless. I am calling Tandem tomorrow and hopefully all the other people having this issue call also. How will this setup be the artificial pancreas loop pump? I sure dont know. 

Hope for our future

My friend Molly McElwee Malloy's hard work on this team gives me hope. http://illimitable.virginia.edu/askmore/diabetes/  This is the artificial pancreas that uses a tslim x2 pump and G5 Dexcom sensor, the setup I personally am currently wearing. We are hoping and praying for 2018 FDA approval!

Want to participate in patient trials?
https://med.virginia.edu/diabetes-technology/participate/

The best low carb cookie I have tried ever!

These are THE BEST low carb cookies I have EVER made! I followed the recipe exactly as listed, I even had to order the peanut flour she uses and had to order vanilla whey protein, I used Integrated Supplements vanilla whey because we love the chocolate flavor so much. I am going to make more today because I accidentally burned half of mine and my dough was too soft. DO NOT TRY THEM WARM, they taste like total crap. I almost threw all mine away, tried them one more time before I tossed them and they were really good! https://lowcarbyum.com/low-carb-gluten-free-chocolate-chip-cookies/

My new tslim X2 Insulin Pump came today!

Today was day 1 of another 4 year journey with an insulin pump. This is my third pump/4yr relationship with a pump. Lol!

My original tslim went out of warranty 2 months ago. Talk about sweating it. I had to wait for new insurance to kick in a month ago and it took the new insurance a month to approve it.

I got the new tslim x2 with integrated Dexcom G5 data!

I am excited and thankful to have this technology in my hands. I am even more excited for the upcoming closed loop pump that takes the Dexcom data and self regulates my blood sugar. I have friends on Facebook in the final patient trials, this is such an exciting time in my lifes journey living with type 1 Diabetes.

I am hopeful that it will be in 2018 sometime. I am thankful to have the pump that will just have to be plugged into the computer, updated and will use the latest closed loop technology.

Here's to four more years attached to a medical device that hopefully in one year be doing me a whole lot more good!

Sadly I share another t1d has passed too soon.

Crys Allen, 31, passed away on Sunday. She was the mother of 5 children under the age of 7 and has a loving husband. I was in the typeonegrit group with her, though I do not know her personally. I am sharing the gofundme page for her husband and kids. They do not know the cause but she is a type 1 Diabetic. Donate if you can, as the page says her husbands last paycheck was stolen and they have no money.

https://www.gofundme.com/5cjezz-allen-family

Is it possible to have a tape reaction on one spot and not the other?

It is no secret, I love my opsite flexifix tape for my pump sites and dexcom sensors, if a person CAN actually say they LOVE being attached to two medical devices held on by tape every single moment of every day.

Lately when I wear my dexcom on my outer thigh, where the "saddlebag" area is the tape starts to really bother me around the edges. Its super wierd, if I just loosen the tape on the edges it usually stops feeling like its burning. The tape doesnt feel like it's burning anywhere else, its so strange.  Anyone else have a tape reaction in one spot and not another?

Times when I really wish I didnt have t1d the most.

Family gatherings and good food that I want to eat and usually do eat and then the guilt and stupid stubborn ass high blood sugar that follows.

I enjoy living low carb, but damn it, sometimes I want to feel like a regular person. It never works, I dont know why I give in, but I do.

Today sucked royally and so did last weekend.

Why are people such cry babies today?

When and why did society become so thin skinned? Why are people such big cry babies these days?  You cannot say anything to anyone without someone "being offended"! Get over yourselves, don't take everything so personally, unless it is a personal attack, no one is out to attack you or intentionally hurt your feelings at the same time dont make fun of a persons personal battles on purpose, that is not ok or acceptable.

So I fell off the face of the earth, but Im back now.

Life has been busy and crazy but in good ways.  I have not had much free time to dedicate to blogging with 2 kids and a husband and a small farm and dogs and cats.

Tonight I am inspired to blog because of these persistant letters that Hines and Associates keeps mailing to me, for their so called "disease management". Yeah, just saying that makes me want to vomit.  These letters are nothing more than more of the fear mongering pamphlets that we get from our doctors offices and hear about from all of our family and friends. This most recent pamphlet is about teeth, gums and eye care. Yeah, GEE AFTER 17 YEARS I had NO IDEA. Come on.  

Dont eat the carbs!

This right here is why Americans with Diabetes with both types are in such bad shape. People pushing grains are behind the terrible dietary guidelines in this country. We dont need corn, oats, beans, or wheat to survive. No one does! Im not sorry grain industry, Im only sorry that we have been lied to for so many years, making so many people over weight and killing those of us with Type 1 from complications and giving so many more Type 2.

Diabetes=carb intolerance

Peanut Allergy=dont eat the freaking peanuts!

So why WHY do we keep telling people with Diabetes to eat so many damn carbs per meal?!

https://robbwolf.com/2017/01/05/why-wont-we-tell-diabetics-the-truth/

I really wish it was easier to buy real food in American grocery stores instead of all the crap ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin (more corn) sugar and preservatives up the wazoo. Almost every single item in the grocery store has corn and sugar in it in some form. We dont need CORN AND SUGAR in all the food we eat.