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And in fact, have been for 12 hours.  Hopefully they will come back up fixed with their own content.

And in fact, have been for 12 hours.  Hopefully they will come back up fixed with their own content.

I got up today and voted a straight Republican ticket — why?

When the Republicans run things around Dallas, things get done.  Roads get built and things get better.

When the Republicans run things around Texas, money gets spent towards schools, and especially teacher salaries.  When teachers make better salaries, I work with a higher class of people.  Not sure what it says about me, since I came in when our pay was the lowest.

When the Republicans run the country, more people are employed.  That’s good for both me and my students.

No hospital records for ‘comatose’ airline passenger – 02 Nov 2006 – National News

No hospital records for ‘comatose’ airline passenger

If you are reading this on BattleDiabetes.com be aware that the author is stealing my blog entries as his own and that the real site is at http://www.kweaver.org and I am a real person.  Not a scum bag like the owner of this site.

The prescription strength Zantac is helping.  I’ve been able to sleep all night, and the heart burn episodes are not as severe.

Not as much chest pain either.  Still lots of coughing.

Airline’s medicine ban leaves passenger in coma – 01 Nov 2006 – Health & fitness

My biggest question — did the insulin freeze? And is it still good?

A diabetic man fell into a coma because airport staff refused to let him take his insulin on board a flight from Auckland to Christchurch.

Have chest pains and tell them that you are having them.

Okay, I’m 99.99999% sure it is gastric reflux.  I break through my medication (as they say) every fall.  Every fall my gastric reflux has sent me back to the doctors for more medication.

But I was a bit alarmed myself when I was having chest pains after lunch, and walked across the hall to ask one of my coworkers what I should do.  Moving around help, as by the time I got there, solved the problem.

But I called my primary care physician anyway.  He called me back on a real phone (in his office) last night when he got my message.

He called the pharmacy and had 300 mg Zantac waiting there for me, and I slept better last night.  We’ll see how it goes.

He also wanted me to talk to the cardiologist for it and told me to go to the ER if they lasted more than 10 minutes.  So I work almost equidistant to two different hospitals so I wanted to know which one — they never WOULD say, but that’s okay.  I think I’ll go to Medical City Dallas, if I have to.

The bad part — well, the two major sympthoms of gastric reflux I am having are sympthoms of congestive heart failure — I know that’s the sympthoms my dad had before he did.  Yeah, the chest pain and the coughing thing.

I really do think it is just gastric reflux.  It sucks.

Life has gotten full again.  I did complete all my workouts for last week — Week 8. 

I went to an orthopedist yesterday, not one that the endo suggested, but one I found on the Simvisc <sp> site that was close to school.  Had to leave early to see him, and one of my coworkers took my class.

I was a bit disappointed at one point — he did a full set of xrays, and when I told him the criteria I had for fixing the knees: reduce medication and not mess with blood sugars — his answer was shoe inserts.  I thought that a bit odd.

However — the xrays did show a problem with weight distribution.  He sent me to a place that makes the shoe inserts in the same building and they were able to make them while I waited.

I think they are helping, I wore them doing dog agility last night and I don’t think I was as stiff this morning, though I did take a higher dose of Mobic last night too.

We’ll have to see how this goes.  It would be great if it worked, the inserts are only $70.

At the end of our faculty meeting today, the principal shared with us that one of our collegues had gone in for surgery to remove a blockage and a tumor was discovered.  I think he said that they found that he had both stomach and liver cancer too, but not entirely sure about the liver cancer thing. 

It was a rough way to start the day.  Kinda of makes you wonder if all the finger sticks, knee pain, etc. is worth it all.

The good news is that the vending machine is only taking correct change and it hurt to much to walk back up to the room to get change and go back and get something to eat.

The bad news is that the PSTA put Hersey bars in our boxes, or maybe that WAS a good thing.

The good news is that I’ve eaten dinner and the TDD for the day so far is around 24.00

Though Macy says she’s happy because she’s got people who love her and plenty of toys to play with.