I’m seeing my endo on Tuesday, and I’ve sent an email with a head’s up. I want to talk to him about switching to Byetta from Symlin for at least a short trial. I’m not losing weight, and in fact am gaining weight.
It’s been very frustrating, especially since I did have good results on the Symlin before.
I need to sit down and count weeks.
This week has been hard since we’ve had so much cold damp weather. My knees liked it better when we were in a drought.
Rescheduling exercise around my week has helped — though my Spanish class was cancelled last week due to the weather.
Another thing that helped was having ishape rework my exercise schedule. I’m not up for 1 hour long cardio sessions yet.
This post has nothing to do with diabetes. I’ve been very intrigued, as is everyone else, about the two boys who were recovered from a child abductor. I am very happy for both families.
I spent some time watching Oprah, and the retired FBI guy and author got me. Why? Because I too was almost abducted and never told my parents.
We were living in Detroit at the time between 7 mile and 8 mile road, on East Outer Drive (next to the Polish Century Club. I went to Osborne High school and walked from our apartment complex to school and back each day.
An older guy joined me one day, and tried to get me to come with him. When I wouldn’t go, he grabbed me and tried to drag me away. I kicked him hard and ran, and didn’t stop until I was at the complex and sure I had gotten away from him.
I didn’t tell my parents because they were already upset and dismayed at where we were living. This was supposed to be a better opportunity for my father, but the complex was just horrible. The police did not respond when they were needed, so I knew that wasn’t an option anyway.
So I went back to school the next day and told one my girlfriends. She took me to some guys at the school she knew and had me tell them what happened. I was walked home the rest of the school year. They also told me that they would make sure the guy wasn’t in the neighborhood anymore.
Every since then, I’m not comfortable without a ready means on communication and I always let someone know where I am going.
So I certainly understand either of the boys not telling what happened, and especially not letting their parents know. Hopefully the creep that abducted them can be proscuted without the boy’s participation. They’ve been through enough, and I’m not sure Oprah was a good idea.
I’ve recorded 7 days of steps now, and I’m averaging 8,907. Okay, I’ll admit I’ve been walking my pink sheets (attendance) down to the attendance office almost every class period to help achieve that.
But that’s a good thing right?
Yep — for the past 4 years. Wonder if it will ever happen? Probably about the time I buy a Dexcom.
Abbott’s new Navigator device, for continuous blood-glucose monitoring, is approaching approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Source: Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
Those who read this on a regular basis will remember me commenting on Dhealth.
They’ve got an interesting start. It will be neat to see them grow and implement their plans.
But on to the step thing.
I’ve recorded 7 days of steps and …. I have been walking an average of 8,521 steps. Of course, one of those was Sunday, when we were snow bound.
I like the pedometer — I haven’t really calibrated it, but that’s okay, I think I just care about the steps.
It’s an Omron, and looks pretty good. I haven’t decided if I’m going to try for the 10,000 step thing or not.
Very interesting indeed. I’m not entirely sure what it all means, but it is definately worth watching.
Link to Novo Nordisk Axes Med-Chem. In the Pipeline:
By the way, I’m a big fan — their insulin doesn’t make me itch (Humalog does).
I do think I’ll mention the two lab incidents to the nurse next week. It’s honestly the only rough patch in the office.
Actually it’s just how things are redirected. Right now, if you type in www.kweaver.org you’ll get to my fairly inactive CS blog. You have to type in www.kweaver.org/blog to get to the diabetes blog. Sorry for the inconvenience, I’m having to play some games to make Websense happy (read the CS blog for the story).
So I get a call telling me that the doctor’s office is closed until 1:00 pm today because of the weather, and I can come after to get my blood draw.
Went to the dentist (called first), and got my teeth cleaned which wasn’t too bad.
I get there, she asks if I ate — yeah, of course I did, I even had to go to the dentist first. Well, they could have told me to skip it when they called in the morning! I don’t know why I let her get to me.
Anyway, I’m getting the lab work done the morning of the visit — which I said while I was there — it isn’t like he hasn’t seen a couple of years results anyway, and he saw last August’s.
Again, I don’t know why I let it all get to me!