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  • SugarStats – Easy Online Diabetic Blood Sugar Tracking, Monitoring and Management » Blog Archive » 10 Tips for Travelling with Diabetes

    Very good tips — and having a modern pump like the Animas 1250 would also help.  It does alarming and calculates insulin on board for you. 

    Here are some common and not-so-common tips that just might help you next time you’re trotting the globe.

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  • Update

    Commenting is back on.  I hope.

  • Byetta & Insulin

    From my doctor — a typical regimem is Lantus at night and Byetta with meals.

    I have run into a few pumpers who are doing Byetta but he prefers Symlin with the pump. He also said my experience was typical — dramatic results, and then slowly back to the previous state.

  • Comments are currently off

    I’ve turned the commenting off — the server has been hit by the spammers pretty hard. I’m researching how to get it fixed, but it might take several days.

    Sorry. If you do have something you want me to see or put on the blog, send to kathleenw at gmail

  • Pedometer

    A commenter wanted to know what pedometer. It’s an Omron — not sure which model but it is much nicer than any other I’ve seen.

  • Lighter day

    Marcie’s ears had been bothering her yesterday — so when I woke up tired and creaky, I decided to sleep in. Good thing, she threw up a chewie my husband had given the youngest dog.

    I took my time — even did my workout before I left, and only took Maggie. We got there literally just in time, they had already started walking her course. Plus since it was Novice and a small class, she was 4th dog in. I walked twice, got her, and watched the course from outside.

    Never have I watched the cones so hard when I ran, but we ran clean and took a first. And we missed Qing by one point later in standard.

    So not near as much walking, only 8211 steps today.

  • Agility brags and another week finished

    By the way, today was one of my hardest exercise days ever, BUT I’d already gotten in over 11000 steps.   Yep, 11000 before exercise, and I’ve got 16305 now.  I’m not kidding.

    The pedometer was enlighting today.  I know why I go home so exhausted now.  I did about 2000 steps for each run. 

    Here’s a typical run.  Wait for the judges to let us walk the course.  Walk the course, twice.  Go to the restroom, walk the course one more time if there is time.  Watch the class before finish.  Go get the dog.  Walk the dog long enough to go to the restroom.  Good news, is both girls are usually fast.  Wander around a lot bit as I’m waiting.  Run the course with the dog.  Walk dog to treats and give them treats.  Walk them back to the crates — lately in the car and then go back to ringside.

    Yeah, it’s a lot of walking.  Like I said, 2000 steps worth.

    Today was weird.  I got up and it was 57 degrees.  Decided to leave new Landend underwear at home, along with propane heater.  It steadily got warmer.

    Sometime around noon, my knee started aching.  A few minuutes later, I felt a little colder.  Then it got REAL cold.  We had some light rain, then some really hard rain.  Finally it stopped raining — poor storm phobic dog was in the crate in the car the whole time and as a result she was very freaky.

    Oh, and we didn’t Q.  Poor Marcie has a horrible ear infection and her ear flaps are inflamed.  Got together with my friends and we decided on Neosporin with pain reliever.  I’m hoping she feels better tomorrow.  She had to stop and shake her head on almost every jump. 

    Yes, I’m exhausted.

  • Steps

    I managed just over 9000 steps today and it was a dog agility class day, not a treadmill walking day.

    So I upped my goal from 8000 steps to 8500 steps a day. I managed to get the 8000 average no problem.

    I think I’ll continue using the pedometer.

  • DLife

    The new show was interesting. Much calmer than the first shows. Only two hosts and there did not seem to be an audience.

    Odd that the hosts are Type 1, yet the stories seemed to be focused mostly towards Type 2. Yeah, the doctor interview can go either way.

    Of course, there are infinitely more revenues avaiable for Type 2 since that is the biggest segment and the biggest spender.

  • Answer to the child abduction comment

    Of course, it upset me at the time.  And in fact, I had a battle with agrophobia after my father died.  Of course, before cellphones I never went anywhere without someone knowing where I was going and when I was expected back.  Before cellphones I also didn’t go anywhere without a handitalkie and without radio equipment in the car.

    Now I don’t go anywhere without a cell phone.  I still have the ham radio equipment but don’t carry it as rabidly as I did.

    It was very empowering though.  Even before I went through the police academy, I knew I could take on anyone, and am even worse after.  I will say, that I felt safest when I had my GSD, and really miss her.  I’d like to have another companion like her again someday though she did scare my husband a few times when he came in too late.  She was acceptally well trained — I was very lucky as one of my police friends was working at a local university for a while and she and I used to go on patrol with him. 

    I said something about it at school the other day, and now wish I hadn’t because one of our other teachers told that she had been raped by an acquintance when she was about the same age.  My experience was empowering, hers was directly the opposite.