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Even one of my students sent this to me. And no, I’m not excited. Do you know how many times they have cured diabetic mice?

Diabetes breakthrough

Diabetic mice became healthy virtually overnight after researchers injected a substance to counteract the effect of malfunctioning pain neurons in the pancreas.

There is sort of a joke/saying among the diabetes community that diabetic mice must be easy to cure — and if you think about it, since they are artificially induced to be diabetic, curing them SHOULD be as easy.

When it results in an actual treatment, I’ll get excited. Until then … I’m going to get on with my life. And by the way, the worst thing that can happen is that diabetics get hope, decide not to take the care they need for good control AND then get to the cure point and find out they are incurable precisely because they didn’t take good enough care of themselves.

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And I thought going to a workshop in Pittsburgh was a PITA.

It’s also sad on how hard it would be to actually live there with diabetes.

I got in another week — 35 minutes on the scheduled days, and got an extra 20 minute session in on Wednesday.

Exercise should be fairly easy the next two weeks — we finished school for the year on Friday. I’m planning on recharging.

Santa Claus diagnosed with type-2 diabetes; seeks nutritional solution in time for Christmas

Sorry, but it’s just freaky.

My Christmas Website is up at http://www.kweaver.us/

Last night, I put a new set in. This morning, I got up and my blood sugar was 147 — it is normally around 110. I attributed that to losing track of carbs last night — I curled up in front of the TV with some crackers.

This morning my blood sugar was 257. Normally after breakfast I’m 150. So I decided the old set or insulin had to be bad, and switched everything out.

Now last year when this happened, I either had to sneak around to change the set, or I had to change it in a teacher’s lounge, or god forbid, the nurse’s office or the restroom (equally germ ridden).

Today, I waited until my planning period, locked the door and did it comfortably. If I’d had students in the room, I would have done the same in my closet.

It’s so nice to be back.

I finished another week — even doing an extra cardio session. I’m gradually increasing distance and it is going well.

I also got some 15 mg Mobic this weekend, so I’m hoping my dog agility days go better.

The fall semester is almost over — tomorrow is our last full day, then we go to half days. I’d like to lose 5 pounds over break, but it will be hard — one problem is that Diet Gourmet will be shutting down for the holiday too.

Almost forget — one of the teachers that was at the dinner meeting tonight is on Exubera. The “bong” isn’t as bad as I thought it was when I saw it on DLife. We didn’t spend much time talking about it but she said she’d been losing some of the weight she’d gained on Novolog. She’s extremely happy with it. I might drop her an email and ask her some more questions.

Not really, but it was weird. I guess I had not put my pump back in my bra right after dinner. Had a dinner meeting with some other teachers. On my way out of the building, plop, my pump fell on the floor, tubing, site and all…. Oh well, I was almost out of insulin, there were several large bubbles in the reservoir and so I’m not too upset. I did wait until I got home and after I’d done my workout before I fixed things.

Unfortunately I’ve gotten a bit casual about things like that, and I need to tighten up on my control.

However, my blood sugars have been good most of the time.