Insulin Pump No Delivery Problems

I have been on a Medtronic insulin pump for a bit over 9 months now, and things have gone fairly well. Over the past week I have gotten 7 no delivery errors that are indicative of air getting in the line forming an occlusion. It is unknown that is causing it, but the main cause seems to be the infusion set getting crimped in some manner.

I pulled two out with both having a slight bend in the catheter. Both had different placement location but were the same type of set. The no delivery error has occurred four other times and I was able to rewind and try the same infusion set again. All the times my blood sugar was in the range of 300-450 at the time of error with it falling to 80-110 the next morning. This has caused me to go through 4 infusion sets in 5.5 days time. I am going to assume that it is something with my infusion set placement on the body and not the equipment itself.

The problem was resolved by replacing the line and the insulin reservoir itself. The past times it had always been the site itself. While this is only the fourth time it has happened the past three were all due to kicks in the catheter of the infusion set itself. I will be checking the reservoir every time to ensure a good fit of the cap.

The only problem that I will be having is with the State provided insurance. My wife works for The State where we get our insurance from. We have had our insurance canceled because the state only checks the mail box once every two weeks. This may seem bad, but five years ago they only checked it once a month. I mailed it on the last day possible after having problems, the post office took 8 days each way, and it looks like it got there on the last possible day for them to check the mail. And rather than check the mail in the afternoon they check it in the morning. This means that just the time the government took to work with it was 31 days.

The next thing to happen with the insurance is that when my wife went back to work they needed to process a large amount of paperwork. The insurance we had was for disability and we were paying it every month by sending a check ... no electronic payments of course it would cause people to lose jobs. You have to have someone to walk to the PO box twice a month. When she got back to work someone canceled the disability portion of the insurance system, but did not put in that the deductions from payroll needed to continue. This caused to insurance to cancel at the end of the month. They said they would get the new insurance to go through the payroll group as soon as possible.

Then we tried again to get a prescription to be paid for, but the person we talked to did not set up the paper work to go to one more person who made sure that the payroll deductions were actually made. There was three people involved in setting up a single thing. Each of them had multiple steps to do and did not do all of them causing a simple mistake on their part to extend for three months. This is why I am glad the entire country is not on State Run (Socialist) Health Care.

CN Real --- ly sucks

I am less than impressed by even the hint of the new line of shows that the Cartoon Network has been producing. This is the CN Real line that is a push for reality television programming on a network that is designed around the format of 100% cartoons. This is obviously going to replace cartoons during the evening hours that they consider prime time. However, this may be a good thing as the cartoons that they have been playing have been for the most part complete and utter crap.

The move to reality shows may be caused by the recent writers strike that caused reruns all through the country. I found this much better than most as I watch the CN and History Channel (the original reality television program.) The problem is that more and more of the History Channel are gangland style or religious shows. Neither of these am I wanting to watch.

Now I will give CN Real a chance. I just cannot imagine that these are going to be any better than the other reality TV shows. I am beginning to think I need to cancel the cable TV and try to use only the Internet for everything. The only thing I worry about is the fascist Democrat plan to monitor all Internet traffic throughout the country. Then they will know all the bad TV shows I watch.

The History Channel has been removed from the lineup by the cable provider in their standard analog package. This and CN are the only channels that I watch. If I am not able get the channels back without resorting to paying $6 for a digital cable box then the cable goes and DSL come to my house.

Street Fighter Chun Li

So I am watching the CN and a commercial for Street Fighter the Legend of Chun Li comes on. Now the other Street Fighter movies sucked a lot. I feel bad for even paying for it. The Anime one was so bad they made a gay sex spoof of it that I saw at DragonCon, it was sadly funny. These are very good reasons to completely skip the movie, however the best one may be what they did to the star.


In the game on of the best reasons to play Street Fighter 2 was that the one girl character in it was actually pretty good looking. Chun Li was a cute Chinese girl that you would not mind looking at for hours at an end.

In the commercial she is shown in a completely black outfit. This was not what the the character should have been. She was the sterotypical cute Chinese girl that game players would want to see. Sure there is sexism, but it made you notice the character. If they did not have the character it would be sexism. If they made her look ugly it would have been sexism. it would have been sexism no matter how you look at it, but at least Chun Li would have kick the asses of anyone who said it was sexism. Take that NOW losers. Make this blog into a sexist blog so that it can be noticed.

But there may be reasons for not making her look like that. If she is investigating the death of her father she should not be going around like a festival girl. The black works well for the skulking in the night. I assume that they will put in a scene where they put her in the traditional outfit as a joke on the regular game outfit. I mean if she was in a fighting tournament she would be laughed at until she began the beatings.


But oh well. I will just have to wait until I can find street.fighter.the.legend.of.chun.li.torrent to be able to see how it was. And besides I always thought that Cammie was the hotter girl in the game.