A few items of note:
1. Health insurance stuff is taking up a tremendous amount of my time and is downright upsetting (re-applying to have an insulin pump? & No CGM coverage?). After an exorbitant amount of BS, I finally am working with a health insurance broker. After the 16th phone call and 14th email to my current insurance company asking about the durable medical equipment of the new plans, I was emailed a list of approved diabetes durable medical equipment suppliers. I Googled every single one on the list. They do not carry insulin pumps, pump supplies, Dexcoms or Dexcom supplies. You know what they do carry under “diabetes supplies”? Glucose meters, prosethetic legs, and impotence devices… ummmm WTF?). So yeah, I went to a health insurance broker. When she told me yesterday that this process would be easier if I either had a dependant or a spouse, I didn’t even want to kill her (shocking since under other circumstances, those words would sting like crazy). By this, she meant that due to how my business is set up and living in the state and city that I do, having someone else to put on the plan would be a benefit for me and give me more options. I’m running out of time to get this sorted out. Health insurance being a constant stressor in my life is getting old.
I’m the Smurf in a weird outfit on the lower right corner
2. On the other side of insurance woes, is beauty. True, all encompassing, can’t-get-enough, I-can-smell-it-in-my-sleep, beauty. Beauty that is soothing, and seems magical. I experienced this kind of beauty on Sunday when I hiked through Muir Woods in San Francisco. Realizing you are just a speck, with a limited timeline and are only here for a blip is humbling and also beautiful. You know what else is beautiful? Hearing a rustling on a hillside and a few seconds later having a buck jump right into the trail a few feet away from your face (ok that was beautiful and heart-pounding-out-of-my-chest scary). We are just so small.
3. I didn’t see this right away, but yes, a moss/Redwood trunk heart. Also, the clover leaves are all hearts too. I’d love to go back and take in all the smells again (but I’d wear warmer clothing and a hat). It smelled like Autumn leaves, moss, wood, damp air and adventure (adventure smells awesome).
4. I am blogging about my Artificial Pancreas experience at A Sweet Life (and some stuff for JDRF that I think comes out tomorrow). I’m a little behind (a lot) and need to catch-up ASAP. Tomorrow I go back on the clinical trial’s insulin pump. Today I started both trial Dexcoms. I currently look like this (well it’s freezing here so I am also wearing a HUGE sweater that looks like a tent). It’s all sweatpants and leggings for me these days. Cozy rules. Totally sexy: