I just got a letter from the company that sends me my test strips. I've been diabetic since 1998. They said I could send in my own log. I did. Mine is a log that was prepared by my endo (assistant professor of endo at UAB) or someone in his department. Apparently they didn't like his log, so sent me their blank one. OMG. Indicated was a blank to fill in the time of day I tested. huh? What has that to do with the price of potatoes? If I ate lunch at 11:30, what good is it to test at 3 in the afternoon. Me thinks this is our government at work. I'm to give a questionaaire to my doctor. One question is, has the patient improved? Again. What? I don't have a bad cold, hon, I'm diabetic. I probably need to play their silly game or I may not get anymore test strips. In a perfect world, I would test before each meal and exactly two hours after I begin a meal, but I can't alway do that. I'm active. I don't live in an institution yet where meals are seved at specific times and I'm home twiddling my thumbs two hours later. Can't test in a car or if I'm volunteering, which I do nearly every afternoon.
Yvonne