Windsparrow your analogy is a good model which will yield the right decisions in terms of adjusting my insulin. As long as the model produces answers that let you do the job right, it does not matter whether it is true or not. Maybe you can tell I've spent a lot of time around engineers.

It's not uncommon for insulin to be dosed by weight. There's also fixed-dose insulin (i.e., no matter what your weight, it's always the same dose), but for patients who are more sensitive to it, weight-based dosing isn't unusual. Frankly, I'd be concerned if your doctor isn't dosing it by weight, given that you've lost weight and that you're having such a hard time regulating on the fixed dose.

Also health-related (though more incompetent admin staff-related):

I called the pharmacy to refill my BP meds because I have 2 or 3 pills left, and they told me the doctor's office won't refill it until I come in for a check-up. Now, as it turns out, their policy (or maybe it's a new law? the receptionist was a little unclear about that) is that they can't refill ANY medication if you haven't seen one of the doctors/NPs in the past year, and apparently I haven't been in since February 2014.

I don't object to a yearly check-up, but I do think if they have a new policy that patients need a yearly check-up to get refills, it's incumbent on THEM to let the patients know BEFORE their meds run out. If I didn't know that policy existed, how would I know to call them for an appointment? They have the shittiest admin staff/policies and the best doctors. So weird.

t edit Wait. This is weird. I was refilling 2 Rxs -- one for my BP and one for my IBS. The pharmacy said I could pick up my IBS meds tomorrow. So clearly what the receptionist said about them not refilling ANY prescriptions if you haven't had a checkup in a year is not true, or else the pharmacy wouldn't refill my IBS meds. That's weird.

They have the shittiest admin staff/policies and the best doctors. So weird.

I think this must be a common thing, because it's the same for my family doctor's office. Can't say enough good things about our doctor, but it's a constant battle to get admins to schedule appointments, refill prescriptions, etc. and I don't think I've ever seen the same receptionist twice. The nursing staff is somewhere in the middle of the two extremes—the head nurse is capable but snippy, others are sweet but don't wow with competence, and then one is a longtime family friend who's been doing it since before I was born and can draw blood without any needle sting or leaving a mark.

I am damned lucky; the staff at my GP's office are pretty great. And I LIKE my doctor.

I even edited her husband's sci-fi novel MS.

I just ran into that 'prescription runs out' with my EYEGLASSES. Which, since my old glasses (and prescription) were four years old, and I'm in That Age range, made reluctant sense even though I really didn't want to pay out the $91.

I still have to go back and get my pupils dilated, which I skipped that day.

Such a Monday. Hit snooze one too many times, attitude from Mac including insinuating that I was making up things and lying to him, me throwing a f-bomb at him, no time for dunkin coffee, rain over the weekend means very little work at work today which = grumpy boss (March rains have put us way way off our numbers), new rules for POs mean I need to now do double the number of POs for the same number of invoices (no explanation as to why the old set-ups are all of a sudden an issue), I'M ALREADY HANGRY AND IT'S ONLY 11, and I have run errands at lunch which means interaction with people.

I still have to go back and get my pupils dilated, which I skipped that day.

My optometrist has a machine that can do whatever it is they do with dilated pupils, only without having to dilate them. They charge an extra $25 for it, but when I was working that was totally worth it, because I could go back to work and stare at text and code for the rest of the day.

Ah, msbelle. That sounds like a truly craptastic start of the week. I hope it gets better.

ION...

OK, I have to geek out a little here, because I don't want to post on FB till it's a done deal, and we should know by tonight. So the house I'm asking the -ma for?

3 bedrooms, which we wanted: a master and a bedroom for The Kiddo, with these amazing closets, another bedroom which will be a home office WITHOUT any clothes or non officey stuff in it, so I can FINALLY claim it as a deduction; nice sized living room with freshly refinished dark oak floors, a pretty WORKING woodburning fireplace, a decently but not huge kitchen with plenty of storage, a range (sadly not gas, but oh, well), dishwasher, disposal, new fridge, TONS OF STORAGE CLOSETS, a finished basement WITH A BAR!!!!

A finished laundry room for our washer and dryer, a one car carage with a brand-new door opener, a driveway, a HUGE nice fenced in backyard for the Corgimeister to run around in, a little deck, but plenty of space in the yard for chairs and tables and a fire pit, and a $250 pet deposit for 4 animals.

6 minutes by car from where we live now,well-located, nice neighborhood, still in an excellent school district for middle and high schools, just in case. Enthusiastic permission to plant flowers and garden, reimbursement of materials for improvement, like repainting ironwork. 1 1/2 baths with a bathtub BIG ENOUGH I CAN FINALLY TAKE RELAXING HOT BATHS IN AGAIN!!!

There's no pics of the inside, but here's the link to the house: [link]

From that link before, black bean avocado enchiladas. Sounds yummy!