Sorry I missed your birthday, sweets. Hope it was a perfectly lovely one. Jan, How are YOU? Hope things are going well. I am doing fine. I just love your photos, you ageless wonder!!

God Bless
Brunetta

jan I am busy and rushing to g4et ready for my reirement at the end of this school year. I am so :Thanks so much for asking, I do wear the CGM on SOME weeks. I find that sometimes it makes me to prone to bolus wihtout checking my blood sugar, a real no-no..so I us it on more leisurely days when I actually have time to make the right judgments.. I find it is helpful for changing settings on the pump. I was getting too much insulin, and Had to reduce basals, increase senstivities and adjust many of my settings,which were causing the drastic swing cycle. Now HOW R U? God Bless

Thanks for the msg...believe it or not that was my first ever email on this site and it did put a smile on my face :-)
As for hypo unawareness, the only time I suffer from that is when I'm asleep. Despite some fairly good a1C results I feel the hypo symptoms around the 54-36 mark and know to take action. I seem to be fairly high functioning hypo-er as I have been upright and walking and able to answer questions lucidly at the 20 mark. This was a test done by a paramedic who could not believe I was still upright at that BG level (I had called them because I wan't feeling quite right!).

Thanks for the admiration. It is hard to sum up but i wouldn't call it brave - I guess I feel that it is a part of me just like anyone else who has an interest in something. No need to apologise for any 'maternal' instincts and I was sorry to hear about your accident. At least it sounds like you weren't hurt at the time, after all cars can be replaced.
There are some strict conditions on my racing licence in regard to my diabetes and CAMS (confed of australian motorsport) are looking at reviewing their policies as well. I am required to have a medical each year and my endo has to write a report on my control every year. In many ways this is a good thing because it forces me to look after myself - no control, no racing!

I guess you could say the need for speed runs in my veins...apparently my very first word was 'car' :-)

I currently hold a racing licence and race my car (the black one in most of my pics) in a series here in Australia. You can see in car vids of a T1 diabetic at speeds upto 300km/h on youtube if you do a search for 'ant1997gtr'. The yellow vette was a car I hired when I was in california last year - in my opinion it was the perfect choice for tackling the urban warfare that is the LA freeway system ;-)

I swear one day I'll discover a speed at which I can outrun my diabetes...

Hi Jan, thanks for the friend req and a big happy birthday to you too :-) High5 to a fellow taur-ean! I would be lying if I didn't say I wasn't a little disappointed to learn that you picked that we don't share the same birth year. I must be loosing my youthful looks trying to keep up with you....it was pretty tough for me turning 21 again and I'd place a guess that you just turned 18*

*Note that I'm terrible at picking ages so allow for +/- 5 years or so ;-)