Charting, logging etc.
How do all of you keep track of your numbers, if you do?
I’m driving myself crazy here with all these paper and logs. I know I
had the right intentions in mind, but it’s a bit overwhelming. We go to
the doctor tomorrow for Maddie’s 1 year check up, and I’m not as
organized as I might have thought.
Now that Maddie is on the pump, the little booklet with the 4 boxes
doesn’t seem feasible as she’s getting checked about 10 times a day.
Any hints?
Stephanie
August 29th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
I love my UltraSmart! When I first got it I would try to input everything
for every meal. Now I only enter the carb data and my pump bolus
amount. I like that if you had a high reading, you can indicate if you
tested for ketones. You can save your A1c results, cholesterol test
results, blood pressure and more. I do always forget about all those
things so mostly I just enter the carbs/insulin. It’s really an amazing
little machine. Other than the first meter I bought when I was diagnosed
in 1987, the UltraSmart is the only one I paid money for. I got all but
$10 of it back through the rebate/trade-in but I still had to put up the
money first. I had gotten a Profile, a FasTake and an Ultra all free
directly from Lifescan. I also have 3 free BD meters and about 8 years ago
I had another free meter, but I don’t remember what company it was from.
As much as I love the meter, I also love downloading it to my computer and
printing out the reports for the CDE.
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Liz
August 30th, 2007 at 6:47 am
our doctor gave us a great paper with a place for her BS number, her carbs, how much insulin was given and why she was high or low.
Send me your address and I’ll mail you one.
It is a week at a glance and it is great for spotting trends.
Thanks for caring and sharing,
Hugs, Rhonda
Mom to Sydney, 8
type 1 since April 7, 2003
pump start march 2, 2005
August 31st, 2007 at 12:56 am
I also keep my chart on the frig so it is readable by the whole family. I mark when her pump was changed too.
Hugs, Rhonda