Living with Diabetes

Author: kathleen

  • Can’t sleep….

    One of the side effects of sleep apnea going without treatment for so long is chronic insomnia. I’m VERY weird. My bedroom is at the front road side of the house and most of the time it isn’t a problem, but we had a drunk hit the electric pole across the street at 2:00 am which woke me up. Then the power company was repairing it the rest of the morning. Between the police flashing lights, the TXU lights, their trucks and the dog being scared, I just couldn’t sleep and haven’t been able to since.

    I’m waiting for a few hours, as I am almost completely strung out, and I’m going to hit the bed and I’ll probably be okay as long as I can sleep uninterrupted.

    My record was during the time period from the time my good friend Aubrey Hawkins was killed by the Texas Seven on Christmas eve, until about a week after they were caught. I couldn’t sleep at all then. And had trouble again when I found out they were staying at a hotel a few miles from the house. But I think just sleeping one night through will do the trick.

  • I’ll have to blogroll him …

    Rebel Doctor Web Log

    Obstructive Sleep Apnea

    I tend not to read blogs unless they have an RSS feed (using Sharp Reader), but I’ll make a point to keep up with this fellow, since

    a) I have sleep apena
    b) most of my extended family live in Brandon, MS, a surburb of Jackson, and the neice is in training to be a nurse in there.

  • Wish he was practicing in the Dallas area…

    SoloDoc

    I’d like to find a doctor like him in the north Dallas area. I’m not as happy as I could be with my current doctor.

  • This MIGHT actually go somewhere.

    First Human Trials Scheduled for Diabetes Vaccine – Elites TV – Your Elite News Source

    One of the reasons I suspect stem cells won’t be successful is the same reason that Islet transplants haven’t been very successful. There is something ELSE going on.

    After we fix the something else, the body will probably regenerate or THEN islet transplant will be successful.

  • Photos of the Beagle Girls

    There are photos of the beagles with Santa. I’ll have our Christmas website up tomorrow — I’m going to use that to demo to my webmastering students.

    http://www.kweaver.org/photo_archives/christmas_2004/index.php

  • The Bell Curve

    The New Yorker: Fact

    What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?

    Very fascinating reading and I wish that the ADA would get in on a similar bandwagon as the CFA has.

  • Another “promise” bites the dust…

    Welcome To Diabetes In Control – Topamax Not Effective for Obesity, Diabetes

    Johnson & Johnson last Wednesday said its epilepsy drug Topamax was not effective as a treatment for obesity and diabetes.

  • “The Biggest Loser”

    I’m watching this show — I think it’s the third episode I’ve seen, and they are down to six and cutting them lose — no longer on teams.

    Some of what they are doing makes sense — they showed a temptation dinner — which was typically of a family, church or work “spread”. Will it seems cruel, the participants saw it as something helpful. They used the experience to find the right food, and stay away from the wrong food.

    I still think there are a lot of wrong things about the whole premise. Weight loss isn’t necessarily less calories eaten and more burn. A lot of other factors go into it, for example, read the article on sleep I posed about earlier. Insulin is also a factor for me.

  • Sleeping the third key to losing weight

    Want to lose weight? Don’t forget to hit the sack

    Now a growing body of research is pointing to a third possible key to weight control: Get a good night’s sleep.

    And in my case, I tend to eat to stay awake.

  • SharpMT

    I’ve installed SharpMT on both my school laptop and my home computer. If you have a TypePad or Movable Type blog, this is a really fast way to blog. You can also blog “off line” and upload later, which isn’t an issue. It works a lot like my mobile blogging software.


    So maybe I’ll blog a bit more.


    See Sharp MT Site