Category: Blog

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.

A User Perspective on Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII) Therapy

For this patient, clinical benefits of CSII are complemented by quality-of-life benefits. CSII allows her to eat, exercise, work, and socialise similarly to non-diabetic peers, mitigating psychosocial impacts of insulin dependence. Tailoring insulin dosage more precisely to meet insulin requirement has allowed her to pursue educational and personal goals while maintaining a healthy weight and an optimal HbA1C,
without severe hypoglycaemia or diabetic ketoacidosis.

My insulin usage is down again. It had gone up — I’d had a couple of sleepless nights, which made for sleepy days which always makes me eat too much and the wrong foods. Why are we convinced that sugar will make us stay awake?

Anyway, the average usage is down to 58, so I’ve pulled all my correction factors down accordingly.

Which will make things fun as that will bring my total insulin usage down a bit more. Which makes it easier to lose weight.

Decided I should test this since I hadn’t. And comments are still fubarred.

Well, I built a test blog and copied all the templates over to this blog. Checking now to see if it works.

I do like the new style sheet.

Nipro Diabetes Systems is issuing a voluntary recall on the AmigoTM Insulin Pump. A thorough review by the new management team has uncovered deficiencies related to documentation in our quality systems. We are currently in the process of correcting these deficiencies and will be back on the market when this process is complete. Nipro Diabetes Systems feels very strongly about satisfying our own standards before exceeding those of our customers.

There was a rumor about this about a month ago on the Insulin Pumpers list….

This is a pump I rejected pretty early in the process as their website was goofy. Okay, maybe not the BEST reason, but if they can’t get that right, can they get the pump right?

Obviously not.

It’s getting better. I actually sleep until just past 4. I think that I would have gone back to sleep if I’d gone to the restroom but instead I got up at 4:30 and piddled around on the computer.