The fall semester has come to an end, but I don’t feel that usual sense of closure. This semester, like I was saying in my last post, I had to take incompletes in my classes because of all of the medical things that popped up – which then led to missed days of class and a frustrating cycle.

Yesterday was a particularly frustrating day. My instructors from the fall semester knew the courses that I was planning to take in the spring. I have an incomplete in my math course and I am planning to take the second half of the course of in the spring, and the same with my English course. My advisors and counselor in disability support services are all aware of the situation too. So, yesterday, my mom was helping me out and she stopped by campus to pick up the folder of work that I thought that my math professor had left for me. It wasn’t there, so I called him. He never received my email response, so he locked it in his filing cabinet before he left for the holiday, and my call reminded him that he never filled out all of the incomplete paperwork, so he ran over to campus to do that. While there, the head of the math department told him that I would not be allowed to take the math course for which I’m registered in the spring until I’ve completed every single assignment, which now I can’t do until I’m back on campus with my professor. He called me back at home several times to let me know different options, which was so sweet. Emails flew back and forth as well as phone calls with my math professor, and I ultimately dropped the second half of the math course for the spring and registered for Chemistry instead. I need the Chemistry series to graduate for my degree regardless, so I might as well start! It seems that I will be fine with the English course, as I’ve emailed that professor.  

My blood glucose levels did not like the stress of having to change around my schedule, figure out whether there were open courses, and whether they would fit in with my schedule. I went anywhere from 50mg/dl to 250mg/dl yesterday. Not a winning day! I also kept getting lost sensor signals. I am not sure why that keeps happening, and if it continues, will have to call Medtronic (again) about the sensor. Other than that, my diabetes has been great. I have to be really careful about bolusing for my meals before I eat because of the motility disorders, and also because the Coumadin (Warfarin) that I am on for the blood clots makes me nauseas. Sometimes I’m fine, and other times, I feel really sick after just a little bit of food, so if I prebolus, I know that I’m headed for a huge crash. It is a huge learning curve too, as there are so many foods to stay away from, or to only eat sparingly on Coumadin. The name of the game is to be consistent, but that is really difficult when I am still feeling nauseas much of the time, too. I’m just happy to finally be off of the Lovenox injections, and to still be off of those extra injections! I have enough injections and pokes with my diabetes that I don’t need to add an extra two per day unless absolutely necessary!