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  • Embroyic Stem Cell Research

    I still don’t get why people are up in arms about this. The President repeated his stance on this today:

    He doesn’t feel that government money needs to be spent on something this controversial. The JDF and other groups are free to raise money and support embroyic stem cell research. He just refuses to spend government money on embroyic stem cell research. Money can be spent on adult stem cells, cord stem cells, and the existing lines. He doesn’t think that the government should be financing the possibility of destroying life. I’m happy with that.

    Frankly, I’m not sure government money should be spent on researching diseases anyway — and I feel that it should be privately funded. Then it is up to the researchers to determine what direction they should go.

    I think that the government needs to be involved in protecting us from our enemies and in financing the mandates they are putting in place when it comes to educating our children.

  • CDE Visit

    Got back a little bit ago from the CDE visit. I related the last stress day at work to her and she indicated that it was entirely normal — basically I’d gotten another note to meet with the PTB and at the end of the meeting, my blood sugar had shot up to 210 — and I had been keeping it in the 100-150 range before than.

    The sad part about that is that you don’t have any indication other than feeling bad, that your blood sugar has shot up that high. A lot of people will attribute that to the stress and not check.

    I’m sticking on the Apidra for another month, and she’s hoping the Cleo clinical trial will start in July.

    I see her again in 4 weeks.

    I did tell her about my goal for the summer, which worried her a bit. Basically I want to take off the 12 pounds I gained from the stress this spring, and another 25 pounds. It won’t be a great loss if I don’t get quite that far.

  • Dog Agility

    A really good article that explains what dog agility is about.

    This is the sport I currently do with my dogs. Both of my girls really love dog agility, and it’s a way for me to measure my physical ability. Or lack there of.

    Any dog can have a champion day | csmonitor.com

    Before I did dog agility….

    I did some conformation and a lot of dog obedience. I had the number 1 Obedience beagle in the country for 8 years, according to Front and Finish Magazine, and was recognized by the National Beagle Club in 1990.

    As a result, I got into pet therapy, which was very hard on me, but fun for the dog.

    Later, as a result of the dog obedience experience, I got into Police K9 Training and was a certified instructor for several years.

  • Tomorrow

    I’ve got an appointment with my CDE and with the dentist. The fun part about the CDE appointment is that a drunk driver took out the bridge in front of the office. Also, the office has moved.

    The fun part about the dentist, is that we start putting a crown on a tooth.

    All things I’ve sort of put off — or just couldn’t do because of the school schedule.

  • Difference from being on insulin and on oral meds

    DLife brought this up, but only touched on it briefly. One of the reasons I’m on insulin, is that I could in no way control my diabetes on oral medications.

    One of the primary reasons I couldn’t, is that you take a fixed dose of medication and have to drastically modify your diet. Not only what you eat, but when you eat.

    Well, I couldn’t do that. I still can’t do that. Right now, I can control what I eat, but not how much and when. I know it sounds weird, but the more I try to do it, the worst it gets, and the worse I feel. Its how I have coped with stress all my life. Once the stress hold lesses, it will get easier.

    However, right now, I’m waking up wondering what I could have done to make this year better. I can’t quite figure it out, and may yet realize I just did the best I could — but in the meantime, I’m still stressed out.

  • The problem with DLife

    I think I just figured it out. There are too many hosts, and none of them are the type to take the back burner, and let their guests talk.

    They continually interrupt their guests.

  • Doctor is moving

    Apparently I’m one of the few patients in the practice who come from them from the south — they are moving, and they are quite a bit further away to the north.

    One thing I want to check is whether they still work with the same hospital — the closest hospital treated my husband very well when he had to be hospitalized, though I figure if I am in the hospital, I will be seeing a specialist, and it won’t be the primary care physician as the main doctor. It’s much easier to go back and forth from that facility than any other.

    Here’s the thing I like most about the pratice: if I need to see my doctor, I will get in on the same day. If I want a routine visit, I can get it within 2 weeks, and get the first appointment of the day. Also, he’s been taking walk-ins on Satudays.

    He also spends a lot of time going through charts. I had carpel tunnel surgery BEFORE he had me as a patient and he asked me about the experience, etc. He still makes some assumptions based on appearance — yes, I do work out, and I have a home gym. That always bugs me.

  • Sliding Scales

    I’ve been on a sliding scale myself — BUT had basal insulin.

    The whole time I was on sliding scale, I always felt like I was on a rollar coaster. I also gained a lot of weight.

    The other thing that bothers me about sliding scales, is that they are always based on a linear relationship when insulin and blood sugar are both geometric in nature.

    Diabetes.Blog.Com :: Putting the horse behind the cart

  • Contacts

    Good news — the contacts are being made in a new material which is wetter. I can already feel the difference.

    However, I’m having trouble switching eyes — I think that is a function of being a bit tired.

    We always give the contacts a few days to settle — especially since my brain needs to reset before we know for sure if these are right.

  • Sonata

    That helped — the Sonata put me to sleep, but I didn’t feel any worse this morning than I do any other. Not something I want to do on a regular basis, but if it can get me back on track when it comes to sleeping, that’s what I need to do.

    The more I think about the conversation the doctor and I had about his kids (middle school aged), the more it has helped me.

    I’m off to the contact lens doctor — another “put off”. My bifocal eye has been driving me nuts! I’m getting it checked and will reorder since I am almost out — I have one left.

    If you are at the bifocal age — especially just starting out — using contacts, and going to a good contact lens specialist pays off. My prescriptions are constantly changing, but neither I or the practicer seem to mind that I need to check in every few months and get a different prescription for one eye or the other.