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This post has nothing to do with diabetes.  I’ve been very intrigued, as is everyone else, about the two boys who were recovered from a child abductor.  I am very happy for both families. 

I spent some time watching Oprah, and the retired FBI guy and author got me.  Why?  Because I too was almost abducted and never told my parents.

We were living in Detroit at the time between 7 mile and 8 mile road, on East Outer Drive (next to the Polish Century Club.  I went to Osborne High school and walked from our apartment complex to school and back each day.

An older guy joined me one day, and tried to get me to come with him.  When I wouldn’t go, he grabbed me  and tried to drag me away.  I kicked him hard and ran, and didn’t stop until I was at the complex and sure I had gotten away from him.

I didn’t tell my parents because they were already upset and dismayed at where we were living.  This was supposed to be a better opportunity for my father, but the complex was just horrible.  The police did not respond when they were needed, so I knew that wasn’t an option anyway.

So I went back to school the next day and told one my girlfriends.  She took me to some guys at the school she knew and had me tell them what happened.  I was walked home the rest of the school year.  They also told me that they would make sure the guy wasn’t in the neighborhood anymore. 

Every since then, I’m not comfortable without a ready means on communication and I always let someone know where I am going.

So I certainly understand either of the boys not telling what happened, and especially not letting their parents know.  Hopefully the creep that abducted them can be proscuted without the boy’s participation.  They’ve been through enough, and I’m not sure Oprah was a good idea.

Very interesting indeed.  I’m not entirely sure what it all means, but it is definately worth watching.

Link to Novo Nordisk Axes Med-Chem. In the Pipeline:

By the way, I’m a big fan — their insulin doesn’t make me itch (Humalog does).

Actually it’s just how things are redirected.  Right now, if you type in www.kweaver.org you’ll get to my fairly inactive CS blog.  You have to type in www.kweaver.org/blog to get to the diabetes blog.  Sorry for the inconvenience, I’m having to play some games to make Websense happy (read the CS blog for the story).

So I get a call telling me that the doctor’s office is closed until 1:00 pm today because of the weather, and I can come after to get my blood draw.

Went to the dentist (called first), and got my teeth cleaned which wasn’t too bad.

I get there, she asks if I ate — yeah, of course I did, I even had to go to the dentist first.  Well, they could have told me to skip it when they called in the morning!  I don’t know why I let her get to me.

Anyway, I’m getting the lab work done the morning of the visit — which I said while I was there — it isn’t like he hasn’t seen a couple of years results anyway, and he saw last August’s.

Again, I don’t know why I let it all get to me!

We’re under a winter storm watch and the local stations ahve been showing roads with ice on them.  We’ve been lucky as we’ve gotten lots of rain — in fact, we just had a heavy rain storm come through — and no ice.  The weather people claim that the heavy rains means we’ve had a temperature rise — I wouldn’t know as we don’t have an outdoor therometer, and I won’t install weather bug or another type of invasive temperature service.

The bad part is that the weather people keep raving on about the worse things that could happen.  Of course, very few of the things that they rant about will happen, and they do point that out.  My problem, is the joy they take in reporting this stuff.

So I have some problems.  What IF the power goes out.  Well, I pulled out my emergency CPAP battery and am making sure it has a full charge.

My next problem is tomorrow morning.  I have an appointment for lab work tomorrow — A1c, and the like and it really should be fasting.  The winter storm crap is supposed to be over at 6:00 am, but does that mean the people will be in the lab? 

Guess I have to wait and see.

Link to Bridling at Insulin’s Cost, States Push for Generics – New York Times

I am surprised that there are no generic insulins, too.  But then making insulin is a completely difference process than making regular drugs.

  Of course, long acting regular insulin is fairly cheap and can be obtained without a prescription, per Lanting’s philosophy.  For example, if you go out to Walmart.com and find their mail order pharmacy, you can get regular insulin for 48.46 for 3 vials.

Now a pump user CAN use that insulin, but you have to remember that most modern pumps use a shorter acting insulin and are programmed to deal with it. 

The good news is that Walmart sells the more rapid activing insulin for the same price, and they also sell 70/30 for that same price.

Lower cost alternatives ARE needed.  Not everyone is as lucky as I have to have great insurance, and even I didn’t at one time, and that could change again.

And I will admit there are times that needing my insurance have kept me from doing other things.  It’s even kept me from other school districts.

To top things off, My oldest and best beagle had a seizure as we were going into the ring at an agility trial.
It was not a grand mal seizure – in fact, I would have known what it was except for a vet at ringside who said it was a seizure.
More to worry about. Right now we’re waiting for a blood workup.

That’s the biggest change that diabetes has made in my life.  I have to plan everything and plan for everything.

BD, I would grab a dog that was scheduled for dog class, jump in the car, and get there.  Now I have to make sure I have supplies available in case I lose a set, insulin goes bad, etc.  I have to test my blood sugar before I get in the car, before I get on the training field and again before I drive home.

Today after school I’m going to a teacher workshop in Houston.  Going involved making sure I had enough supplies and even medications just in case something happened.  Hey, it is Houston, and they’ve been known to have weird things come up before without warning.

But every action these days requires infinitely more planning than ever before.  I miss being spontanenous.

I asked for a Novolog that needed a refill.  Never got done — doctor’s office didn’t have a record of the refill request but they faxed a new refill anyway … By the way, all this via email….

The Novolog is in the processed of being shipped.  I think I made the original request last Monday, and told the doctor about the missing refill on this Monday.

Not too bad.  Though they should have gotten the fax to the doctor in the first place, but that could be the fax machine at the doctor’s office, in fact, I need to check that number, come to think of it.

Man, Medco is freaking me out, I’m actually getting good service from them.

I ordered Symlin when it came due, and it was shipped correct and arrived a day early.

And I also ordered my new Depo (Yes, I’m anal, since it isn’t due for another 10 weeks or so), and it was delivered today.

WOW!