Category: Blog

Just updated the mobile blogging software.

Olympics Dispatch III: Victorious

My husband doesn’t GET why I care about this, but I do. Of course, he isn’t a diabetic, he isn’t fanatical about having as good as blood sugar as possible, and doesn’t understand how hard it is.

It is SO cool that this doctor cares so much.

Sometimes I feel like the little kid in first grade when I’m interacting with my doctors, trying not to be on their nerves and trying hard to have the best blood sugar possible.

Athens Airport, 5:00 AM, Saturday, August 21, 2004 — Gary won the gold. Unbelievable. He did it. He did it for himself, his family and friends, and for all people with diabetes. He says he’ll give his gold medal to the person who finds the cure. I hope he has to give it away soon. But for now he inspires; he inspires me and all of the people in the world who live every day with the disease that is diabetes.

This is the first time I’ve seen the pump — I’m at an insulin pumper user group meeting and the local rep is showing it off.

Basically the features are a calculator and it lets you calculate everything (carb, correction, and even combo bolus) and let’s you adjust it on the fly.

I may yet upgrade….

DANA Diabecare USA LLC Warning Letter

This is sad, because people’s lives are at stake here.

The link takes you to the letter the FDA sent to Dana.

Dia Care — Abstracts: Nichols et al. 27 (8): 1879

This article shows that some doctor 10-15 years ago should have handed me a blood sugar monitor and had me do something about all this. Doubt I was ready to deal with it yet.

As I told my husband tonight … at least I have something that I can change and see immediate effects. Nothing quite like getting on the treadmill with a blood sugar of way, 190, and getting off 30 minutes later and seeing it at 120.

3 pounds less than last month’s CDE visit. 20 pounds over all.

A1c is 6.2

We are adding medication for chlorestral because bew study. they have been watching that tudy and agree with the findings.

Study Shows Insulin Detemir Results in Less Blood Glucose Variability Compared to NPH Insulin and Insulin Glargine
This article described the biggest problem with the long acting insulins and why I hate them, and prefer the pump.
Nothing like having to eat because your insulin is screwed up.

Photos

I’ve updated my photo album, adding the Spring 2004 – Best Friends

This is the most interesting photograph. Maggie doesn’t like the camera and decided that she didn’t want her picture taken, so the photographer and I decided we’d see if we could get them to interact and maybe she would forget the camera.

I was baiting Maggie over the teeter, and I forgot that Marcie would of course, follow.

I should have grabbed the board, but didn’t think to do that, I don’t even know if I realized they were both on the board until it tipped anyway. Baiting them all the way down to the bottom assured their safety — the teeter automatically tips back into the original position.

FYI, having both dogs didn’t really work, whenever the photogather thought harder than I was thinking about food, Maggie was off.

Obviously Marcie LOVES the camera.

one of the reasons to stay with movable type is I bought software for the treo to blog with.

I finally have a decent picture of Maggie.

http://www.kweaver.org/photo_archives/cat_maggie.php

Someday soon I値l convert that to WordPress.