Category: Current Status

Went to the podarist today. Good move, I’m having problems with my Tarpel Tunnel.

He gave me 3 choices:

Antiinflammatories
Cortisone shot
Boot.

I picked the boot, which was also his suggestion. I can wear this thing all the time, including sleeping unless I’m doing treadmill or dog agility running, and hopefully nip this in the bud, without affecting my blood sugar too much — all will elevate, including the boot as it forces some inactivity, but is the least invasive.

Am to see him again in a month.

Went to the podarist today. Good move, I’m having problems with my Tarpel Tunnel.

He gave me 3 choices:

Antiinflammatories
Cortisone shot
Boot.

I picked the boot, which was also his suggestion. I can wear this thing all the time, including sleeping unless I’m doing treadmill or dog agility running, and hopefully nip this in the bud, without affecting my blood sugar too much — all will elevate, including the boot as it forces some inactivity, but is the least invasive.

Am to see him again in a month.

Yeah, diabetes affects everything and this is not something I don’t think about very often, so I am sure it is helpful for others.

MSN Health & Fitness – Dental care and diabetes: The importance of a healthy mouth

Dental care and diabetes: The importance of a healthy mouth

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(Anyone with brilliant ideas on how to motivate people to take better care of themselves can contact Dr. Polonsky’s institute here. Make sure to cc me at amy@diabetesmine.com as well!)

Hmmm, maybe I should contact him. I’ve studied behavior analysis for years on both a theoritical basis and a concrete basis for years.

Between training beagles for dog agility and teaching high school students technology, and between working on myself as a diabetes patient, I’m got a lot of practical work done.

One of the biggest problems with motivating diabetes patients, is that it hard to come up with tangible rewards. Also the “noncompliant” behaviors tend to be self rewarding. It’s always hard to eliminate self rewarding behavior.

It’s a cute little device, probably best for emergencies, because I doubt you can download from it.

http://www.prestigesmartsystem.com/products-sidekick.asp

I doubt GERD is a complication, since I’ve had problems with it long before the diabetes, though I wonder if diabetes is a factor keeping it out of control.

Diabetes In Control – Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Diabetics, an under Diagnosed Complication.

Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Diabetics, an under Diagnosed Complication.

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The 10 Commandments of medication usage

I’m on 6 daily medications a day and I have sat down, read all the side effects, and have had intelligent conversations with my doctors on the medications.

For example, the reason I’m on Zyrtec, is because Allegra makes my blood pressure go high.

The reason I’m on insulin is because I don’t like the side effects from the Type 2 medications, nor do I like what they do to your lifestyle.

I believe it’s important for patients to know what is going on with their medications.

If you are interested in the ADA Scientific Sessions, this blog is doing an excellent and timely recap of the actual sessions.

Richard’s San Diego Diary

Follow the happenings at the 65th Annual Scientific Sessions in San Diego through the eyes of Dr. Richard Kahn, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer of the American Diabetes Association.

My heel spurs are back. I know it’s because I increased my treadmill time. I’m taking an off day today, and going to ice my food down most of the day and hoping it will go away.

I know my dog agility runs didn’t help, though we were on grass. It was a fabulous dog agility weekend. I ran both dogs and the trial was scheduled for Friday and Saturday only.

This was an USDAA trial, which has been extremely frustrating for me. Marcie either makes one mistake which wouldn’t count in AKC, or is over time, which is shorter than AKC time. (For the non-dog agility person, there are several dog agility venues with different rules and different ideas, for us AKC is the easiest).

On Friday night, Marcie started out the evening with a 1st in Gamblers. USDAA has games, in Gamblers, you get as many points in the opening, a buzzer sounds (or a whistler), and you have a fixed amount of time to get a “gamble”. It’s basically a set of obstacles where you have to stay behind a line and the dog has to get it right by verbal commands. Marcie Qed, getting enough points in the opening AND getting the gamble.

Marcie was also clean in Standard, but .6 seconds over time. ARGH! She took a second.

Maggie got distracted, and went off course once, and came in second. That was Maggie’s best course at that point, she’s only competed about 4 trials.

Saturday was even better. Marcie and I played Snooker. It works like the pool game, I think. There are 3 red jumps, and a small course. You take a red jump, take part of the course, red, another part, etc. Then when you finish that part, you take the course. Marcie took a 1st place in that compeition and Q’ed.

Standard runs were both clean with both dogs, but both were over time. They both had trouble with the weaves and Marcie had trouble with the table.

Marcie had a final jumpers run, which was real fun for both as there are no weaves or table to mess us up. She ran clean and in time, taking another 1st and Qing.

So our total was:
Marcie had 3 Q’s, and got 3 1st places, and 2 2nd places.
Maggie had 2 second places.

It definately means that I’m running better, even with the heel pain.

My heel spurs are back. I know it’s because I increased my treadmill time. I’m taking an off day today, and going to ice my food down most of the day and hoping it will go away.

I know my dog agility runs didn’t help, though we were on grass. It was a fabulous dog agility weekend. I ran both dogs and the trial was scheduled for Friday and Saturday only.

This was an USDAA trial, which has been extremely frustrating for me. Marcie either makes one mistake which wouldn’t count in AKC, or is over time, which is shorter than AKC time. (For the non-dog agility person, there are several dog agility venues with different rules and different ideas, for us AKC is the easiest).

On Friday night, Marcie started out the evening with a 1st in Gamblers. USDAA has games, in Gamblers, you get as many points in the opening, a buzzer sounds (or a whistler), and you have a fixed amount of time to get a “gamble”. It’s basically a set of obstacles where you have to stay behind a line and the dog has to get it right by verbal commands. Marcie Qed, getting enough points in the opening AND getting the gamble.

Marcie was also clean in Standard, but .6 seconds over time. ARGH! She took a second.

Maggie got distracted, and went off course once, and came in second. That was Maggie’s best course at that point, she’s only competed about 4 trials.

Saturday was even better. Marcie and I played Snooker. It works like the pool game, I think. There are 3 red jumps, and a small course. You take a red jump, take part of the course, red, another part, etc. Then when you finish that part, you take the course. Marcie took a 1st place in that compeition and Q’ed.

Standard runs were both clean with both dogs, but both were over time. They both had trouble with the weaves and Marcie had trouble with the table.

Marcie had a final jumpers run, which was real fun for both as there are no weaves or table to mess us up. She ran clean and in time, taking another 1st and Qing.

So our total was:
Marcie had 3 Q’s, and got 3 1st places, and 2 2nd places.
Maggie had 2 second places.

It definately means that I’m running better, even with the heel pain.