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CGM Anti-Denial Petition Hits 2000!

I just wanted to inform everyone that this morning the CGM Anti-Denial Petition hit 2000 signatures today! I am very excited about this. We are way before our goal date of November 14, 2008, World Diabetes Day.

Just to inform everyone I am currently working with the JDRF on getting the names of medical directors to send the petition to. The JDRF also have a survey to fill out so you can tell them your insurance carrier. This will make the process much easier for them. You can access all of this information on the CGM Anti-Denial Website.

You can either join or not its up to you!

Thank you all for making the CGM Anti-Denial Campaign a success!!

SIGN THE CGM ANTI-DENIAL PETITION

PS: Check me out on Diabetes Health and my new blogging venture on My Diabetes Central where I already posted Learning to live with diabetes and Diagnosed at 25.

CGM petition: Almost at 2000 signatures

Currently, the CGM Anti-Denial Campaign is at 1821 signatures!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/CGMSdenial/index.html

We need only need 179 more to get to 2000

Please keep telling everyone you know about the campaign, and remember to update the CGM Anti-Denial Site with any current information you have on progress you have made regarding appeals.

Thanks for your help,

Gina

Sh*t

Today at work, my pump is beeping like mad. I check to see what all the rukus is about.

HOLY COW!

16.3 units left.

Dammit, I forgot to change it this morning before I left work. (always in a rush in the morning, thats how I roll) Anyway, I actually IM one of my internet IM buddies to ask how long 16 units will last. She told me to check the pump because it gives you a count down. So I did. It said 15:10, so basically I had 15 hours left before it had no insulin. So I thought. 430pm came along and ummm I look at the pump to see what the countdown would tell me next. 12 minutes left of insulin. SHIT.

I didn’t have a vial with me. Basically, I never have a vial of humalog with me. It’s bad I know. So, I start to panic just a bit. It takes about 50 minutes total to get home from work. 50 minutes without insulin ugh.. Well, nothing I could do.

Two trains later. I am home.

My mom wants to talk to me, but she sees I am in a rush. “What’s the matter? she asks.” Me: Don’t yell, I forgot to change my pump this morning, It is empty. She looks at me with that mom look. (I know you all know that look I am talking about. The look of dissappointment, anger and worry all in one.) She tells me “Oh, hurry up.” Alllllllllllright, I am

So, I take out the infusion and look at what happened next:

Bloody infusion too

Ahhh… The life of a person with diabetes.

CGMS PETITION REACHES OVER 1000 SIGNATURES

As of 230pm NY time, The CGMS Petition has 1007 signatures! (in 25 days, the petition was launched on July 14, 2008) Thank you to all who have signed. We need more please sign it or pass it on to everyone you know who supports the use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems.

SIGN THE CGMS PETITION

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/CGMSdenial/index.html

UPDATE ON NY CGMS MANDATED COVERAGE

Today I talked to the Dept. of Health in NY, They said that the CGMS has NOT been mandated yet. Currently, on the NY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH WEBSITE the CGMS is listed. I told her that it is confusing to leave it up there and she would be finding out if indeed it needs to be taken down.

The person said all of the people she has talked to over the past couple of weeks regarding the CGMS need scientific evidence that it works. (If you have any trials or evidence that the cgms works please send it to me directly, email listed below) The person was looking into trials, and other sorts of evidence to prove that CGMS should be mandated in NY State. She took my contact information and would let me know any further updates.

To date, I have 912 signatures so far on the Petition http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/CGMSdenial/index.html if you have not signed it please do so and pass it on to everyone you know.

If anyone has any questions please do not hestitate to ask.

You can email me at gcapone1 (at) optonline (dot) net