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I have a new puppy — Tesoro’s Herald Square — Call name Macie to go with Marcie and Maggie.

Pictures at http://www.kweaver.org/photo_archives/macie_first_day/

When Maggie finished her Open Agility JWW in the spring, I knew it was time to get a new dog. It will be at least two years before Macie is ready to compete. Marcie and Maggie will be 10 and 9 respectively, and I just don’t want to be without a competition dog.

I will be trying out conformation with her.

As I suspected, the error code was not a big deal. Basically the tech uodated my records.

As I suspected, the error code was not a big deal. Basically the tech uodated my records.

My blood sugar was 201, 2 hours after eating. I’ve called my Endo’s office to ask for assistance.

Diabetes In Control – Stable Glucose Improves Classroom Attention in Diabetes

I can say with a bit of confidence that it will help Type 2 diabetics children too…..

Okay, my sample size is small, but I know unstable blood glucose in me not only affects my classroom attention but my classroom performance too.

Oh, I forgot, I’m the teacher — does it still count?

I’m definately on Spring Break mentally.

My blood sugar is doing well — I’ve been on my weekend basal, and I did drop my boluses. I’ve been careful to do about 15 minutes on the treadmill after each meal since my activity level is a bit down from not teaching.

I’m going to see my endo today. The CDE wasn’t available, and I haven’t had someone else look at my logs for several months and I’ve made some interesting changes. I just want a trained medical professional to say I am on the right track.

I also want to start losing weight again.

I’m still waiting on the Protonix decision. It’s “in progress”. I am doing okay on one Protonix a day, but my coughing is pretty heavy in the evening. I am still waking up but not as early or as badly as I was at the beginning of the week.

This doctor brings up some interesting points on Exubra — I’m not rushing to go to Exubra myself as I don’t mind the regimen I’m doing now, and I can have the lifestyle I want — I expect the writer would accuse me of “abusing insulin”. Oh well.

Diabetes In Control – Exuberance Over Exubera: Some Cautionary Notes

Exuberance Over Exubera:
Some Cautionary Notes

Got to bed when I wanted but we had bad thunderstorms and poor Maggie woke me up. Plus I’d had pizza and so was having some GERD problems.

Did get my lesson plans done, at 2:00 am. but at least they are done.

Got up early, did some prep work for my :Algebra kids. I can’t deal with the stress of being responsible for a room I can’t control.

We have a new copier which I love because you can toss paper in it and it scans the image and emails it to me. I’m putting each day’s lesson on my class web site.

I took Marcie to a hunt test this morning at the Lone Star Dachshund Conservatory. Maggie went along, but I was pretty sure when I entered I was only up to one dog (and I was right).

Lovely site! It’s fenced in, to keep both the dogs and the rabbits in. It was very dry there, very grassy with cedar trees. They have put out pallets, chopped down trees, etc. to create places for the rabbits to hide. They put out water and feed for the rabbits too.

Here’s how it worked. They listed all the entered dogs, and then drew small numbered balls for our running order. We got to go 4th, which I think was a really good place to be in. I could see what other people did, and give Marcie a change to get out and see what was going on.

When it was our turn, I was told to let Marcie off leash and to guide her into places where the rabbits might be. I actually flushed out the first rabbit, but Marcie was too far away to see it. She flushed one out later, but it ran towards the fence and she gave up when she saw it disappear at the fence. She didn’t realize that they can’t get out, and didn’t keep looking.

She went back where she found it, and was very dilengent and excited about searching for it.

Unfortunately she didn’t find anything else in her 30 minutes so we were excused.

I was praised by several handles because I didn’t try to over control her, let her work, and didn’t say anything at all to discourage her. I was thrilled because she came when she was called and she worked hard. I wasn’t sure how that part would go.

One of different parts of that day is that one of the big bosses at Tuesday Morning was there. I think Rich’s boss reports to him, but there may be a person in between. I’d first met Richard (yes, same name as my husband) and his wife at their house when they got their first basset hound. They are extremely active in the Basset Hound club now and have quite a few dogs. They do conformation and are just starting in field work. I will admit I didn’t recognize them at first, since we usually see each other dressed to the nines for the company Chirstmas party and they aren’t in my “dog database”.

My whole leg hurts, from the knee down to my toes!  Icing hasn’t helped much.  I’ve got a Thermacare wrap on it now, but it isn’t either.  The hot tub helped earlier, so I’m going to hobble down when I get enough courage and try that again.

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Hot tub helped — I have more range of motion.  Oddly enough blood sugar is lower, not higher, as I expected.