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  • I told you so!

    Took her long enough to figure that out!

    Diabetes Mine: When MDI is B-A-D — Time to Pump

    I suppose people on insulin pumps have bad weeks, too. But I’m officially D-O-N-E with the last few, that’s for sure.

    Seriously. Pumping is the only way to be a diabetic but it is EXPENSIVE, time consuming, mind consuming, etc.

    I have done it all — oral meds for about two months which drove me nuts. No matter what I ate, didn’t ate, etc, my blood glucose monitor insisted on being a random number generator.

    I’ve done MDI. Here’s the problem with MDI, you make a mistake, you roller coaster for days. Flat out, you are just stick with the insulin you take until it decides to leave.

    That’s true pumping too, but it decides to leave on a quicker basis. And yes it is ALL about the control!

    I’m lucky, the short term complications get me in a hurry. The first is blurred vision — if my blood sugar isn’t in normal range, I can’t read, and have trouble seeing. The second is bitchiness — if my blood sugar is too high, I’m hard to get along with. The third is congetive ability, I can’t program and I can’t teach as well if my blood sugar is too high.

    And remember make sure you are reading this at http://www.kweaver.org and if you are reading it at BattleDiabetes.com, it is stolen content!

  • Battle Diabetes is still stealing content

    Be aware that if the URL of the post you are reading is NOT http://www.kweaver.org, you are reading stolen content. DO NOT click on their adverstising links.

    FYI, at the moment, I do not have any advertising links.

  • Week 10 Done!

    The inserts the orthopedist gave me are doing the trick. I only have a little pain when I wake up on the non-anti-inflamtory mornings, and it goes away when I move. I’m still stiff but that’s an all over thing.

    I’ve moved around my work outs already and I believe — which I’m going to double check tonight — that my hotel has a gym. I have to go to Houston for a teacher workshop on Thursday and will be back Saturday.

    FYI: The whole battlediabetes thing is creeping me out. I can understand why anyone would grab my little trivial posts.

    And the heartburn is much better too!

  • How to fight BattleDiabetes.com

    One of the best things you can do as a user, is to positively NOT click on any advertisements that you see on the battlediabetes.com website. They are attempting to make money on their site and use click on advertisements (mine doesn’t at the moment).

    If they lose revenue, they will go away.

  • Apparently there is more to the story

    No hospital records for ‘comatose’ airline passenger – 02 Nov 2006 – National News

    No hospital records for ‘comatose’ airline passenger

  • BattleDiabetes.com

    If you are reading this on BattleDiabetes.com be aware that the author is stealing my blog entries as his own and that the real site is at http://www.kweaver.org and I am a real person.  Not a scum bag like the owner of this site.

  • Better….

    The prescription strength Zantac is helping.  I’ve been able to sleep all night, and the heart burn episodes are not as severe.

    Not as much chest pain either.  Still lots of coughing.

  • ARGH!

    Airline’s medicine ban leaves passenger in coma – 01 Nov 2006 – Health & fitness

    My biggest question — did the insulin freeze? And is it still good?

    A diabetic man fell into a coma because airport staff refused to let him take his insulin on board a flight from Auckland to Christchurch.

  • How to get your doctor to call you back.

    Have chest pains and tell them that you are having them.

    Okay, I’m 99.99999% sure it is gastric reflux.  I break through my medication (as they say) every fall.  Every fall my gastric reflux has sent me back to the doctors for more medication.

    But I was a bit alarmed myself when I was having chest pains after lunch, and walked across the hall to ask one of my coworkers what I should do.  Moving around help, as by the time I got there, solved the problem.

    But I called my primary care physician anyway.  He called me back on a real phone (in his office) last night when he got my message.

    He called the pharmacy and had 300 mg Zantac waiting there for me, and I slept better last night.  We’ll see how it goes.

    He also wanted me to talk to the cardiologist for it and told me to go to the ER if they lasted more than 10 minutes.  So I work almost equidistant to two different hospitals so I wanted to know which one — they never WOULD say, but that’s okay.  I think I’ll go to Medical City Dallas, if I have to.

    The bad part — well, the two major sympthoms of gastric reflux I am having are sympthoms of congestive heart failure — I know that’s the sympthoms my dad had before he did.  Yeah, the chest pain and the coughing thing.

    I really do think it is just gastric reflux.  It sucks.

  • Update – Have finished week 9!

    I went and double checked, and I did finish week 9 of exercise.

    The inserts are making a huge difference, yesterday I was forced to be on my feet for about an hour, and I didn’t feel nearly as bad as I usually do.